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Arnold Schwarzenegger is revered as a veteran actor in Hollywood and for very good reasons too. Starring in iconic and memorable roles ever since the 1980s, Schwarzenegger has created a name for himself with his work.
Talking about the film that started it all, Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in James Cameron’s 1984 filmTheTerminator.Stating the intense training that he had to do for the franchise, Schwarzenegger claimed that he stopped blinking at the gun range after firing so many rounds!
When Arnold Schwarzenegger Bled ForTheTerminator
In 1984, the usage of VFX was very limited as it wasn’t so advanced at that time. Actors had to often rely on their dedication and their practice for their role to achieve the difficult things to perfect their role.
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Portraying the role of a cyborg assassin from the future coming back to kill a waitress, Schwarzenegger had to essentially make himself a heartless and emotionless robot for the role.
Alongside the neutrality of emotions, the actor revealed that he had to also learn all the gun stunts that he does in the film by heart. As per Schwarzenegger’s new bookBe Useful: Seven Tools for Life(viaInsider), the actor had to practice all the gun stunts while being blindfolded!
“On ‘The Terminator,’ it was becoming a machine: blindfolding myself until I could do every gun stunt with my eyes closed, and shooting so many rounds at the range that I no longer blinked when my gun fired”
He further continued,
“On ‘Terminator 2,’ it was practicing the shotgun cocking flip so many times my knuckles bled for what amounted to two seconds of screen time. I didn’t complain.”
Despite the hardships that he has faced inThe Terminatorfranchise,Arnold Schwarzeneggerrevealed in a separate interview that due to his bodybuilding and James Cameron, his Hollywood career was saved.
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In a separate interview withThe New York Timeswhere Schwarzenegger was promoting his book, the actor talked about his longtime friend James Cameron. Talking about what made him unique during the early 1980s, Arnold Schwarzenegger stated that the answer was his muscular body and James Cameron’sThe Terminator.
“If I hadn’t had Jim Cameron at that time create “Terminator” and have me appear without the muscles, but still everyone knew what was underneath the leather jacket — that was kind of like, yeah, I get it, Schwarzenegger is a machine, so the body looks different than anything else; he talks like a machine with his accent. Without that, it wouldn’t have worked.”
The Terminatorreceived a rating of 8.1/10 on IMDB and a record-breaking 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and the film is available to stream on Max in the U.S.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
