Today, the Terminator is probably the most famous role of Arnold Schwarzenegger. But when James Cameron’s sci-fi film came out in 1984, the bodybuilder was still relatively early in his film career. And especially his co-star Linda Hamilton had serious doubts about his cast as the Terminator.
Linda Hamilton thought Arnold Schwarzenegger was a busybody before Terminator
In the Netflix documentary Arnold, Linda Hamilton recalled the beginning of the Terminator franchise. For her, the sci-fi film was just another small job whose script didn’t convince her. Nobody knew then that the film, budgeted at 6 million dollars, would gross almost 80 million dollars. She had even greater concerns about casting Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800 robot. In fact, she thought her co-star was a “poser”:
By my arrogant definition, Arnold was [Schwarzenegger] a show off. A bodybuilder pretending to be an actor.
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Terminator: Linda Hamilton & Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1st film
However, this first negative impression did not last. Much like the Terminator franchise, the evil robot became an ally in Linda Hamilton’s eyes.
But because I was curious, I went and stood by to watch him. And I started buying it from him. The physicality and stiffness and all the other stuff he brought with him. I thought: Ok, this might work. Arnold Schwarzenegger envied Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2
At the next meeting for the sequel Terminator 2 – Judgment Day, a certain competitive relationship had even developed between Schwarzenegger and Hamilton, because, as our colleagues from Espinof reported, the Terminator star was amazed at Linda Hamilton’s muscles:
I stared at her arms. The triceps, the veins of the biceps. She was like a miniature bodybuilder and I couldn’t believe she was more defined than me.
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