Linda Hamilton: ‘Everyone’s terrified of James Cameron. I’m not’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And Cameron, who directed the first two films, Terminator and T2: Judgment Day, and was absent for the next three, including 2009’s Salvation, recognised as much when he told Schwarzenegger: “I’m gonna bring back Linda Hamilton.” She only rang him back on the third call, took time to think it over, but finally agreed. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free open image in gallery ‘I didn’t want to be Linda-Hamilton-arms for my entire career’: Hamilton in ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ She says she has no regrets, but admits that Sarah Connor was something of an albatross from under which she struggled to escape. “Because if you don’t live up to it, then it’s a real disaster.” In Dark Fate, which is directed by Deadpool’s Tim Miller and written from a story co-crafted by Cameron, Sarah Connor is broken. “Tim was like, ‘We’re only allowed one f*** in this entire movie – where are we gonna use it?’ And by the end of the first day, I had said it in 10 different scenes.