‘This son of a b***h is more cut than me!’ Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals hilarious reaction to Linda Hamilton’s muscly arms for Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed his hilarious reaction to seeing Terminator 2: Judgment Day co-star Linda Hamilton’s muscly arms for the first time.
The action icon, 75, recalled in new Netflix documentary Arnold how Hamilton, 66, debuted her famously beefed-up arms and looked like a ‘miniature bodybuilder’ ahead of filming the 1991 sci-fi classic.
He said: ‘A few days before we start shooting [director] Jim Cameron says to me, let’s all get together and have a nice dinner.
‘Linda comes in and then she takes her sweater off and I’m looking at her arms. Veins on the biceps and then the triceps — everything was like a bodybuilder except miniature.
‘I said, “I cant believe that son of a b***h is f***ing more cut than me.’
Wow: Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed his hilarious reaction to seeing Terminator 2: Judgment Day co-star Linda Hamilton’s muscly arms for the first time
I’ll be back: The action icon, 75, recalled in new Netflix documentary Arnold how Hamilton, 66, debuted her famously beefed-up arms and looked like a ‘miniature bodybuilder’ ahead of filming the 1991 sci-fi classic (pictured with Edward Furlong in the film)
Hamilton added: ‘I do remember the fierce pride I had to show to Arnold.’
Schwarzenegger also revealed his initial trepidation at making his character a Terminator who doesn’t kill people.
Cameron said in the documentary: ‘At first Arnold was absolutely against the idea’ and recalled asking the actor What’s the matter? You don’t like it?’
Arnold said: ‘Jim, I don’t kill anybody’ to which the director said the machine is ‘the good guy, the defender, the protector.’
Arnold quipped: ‘Okay, alright. Can I shoot them in the leg?’
‘I said, ‘Yeah, lets just shoot ’em in the leg, how’s that?’ He goes, ‘That’s good’, said Cameron.
This comes after Arnold revealed his iconic Terminator movie line nearly didn’t exist due to an on-set clash.
In 1984’s The Terminator, the Austrian actor’s character T-800 is seen to say: ‘I’ll be back’ – a line that is still quoted to this day – however he revealed he fought against saying the quote with director James Cameron.
Iconic: ‘Linda comes in and then she takes her sweater off and I’m looking at her arms. Veins on the biceps and then the triceps — everything was like a bodybuilder except miniature’
Battle of the biceps: Arnold and Linda showed off their muscles in a BTS snap
Ha! In 1984’s The Terminator, the Austrian actor’s character T-800 is seen to say: ‘I’ll be back’ – a line that is still quoted to this day – however he revealed he fought against saying the quote with director James Cameron
Speaking in a newly-released Netflix documentary about Arnold’s life and career, Titanic director James, who co-wrote The Terminator with Gale Anne Hurd, said: ‘Sometime in the middle of the shoot, we’re doing this police station scene…
‘The line is, ‘I’ll come back.’ It wasn’t meant to be like a big moment at all. It was literally meant to be, on its face, ‘No problem, I’ll come back.’ For some reason, Arnold didn’t say, ‘I’ll come back.’ I said, ‘Well, just say “I’ll be back.” Keep it simple.’”
Arnold revealed he wanted to change the line to “I will be back” to sound more “machine-like” but James fought back: He says, ‘Are you the writer?’” And I said, ‘No,’ and he said, ‘Well, don’t tell me how to f***ing write.’”
Arnold went on: ‘It became the most quoted movie line, I think, in the history of motion pictures. So this just shows to you who was right and who was wrong’.
