Schwarzenegger On Terminator, James Cameron and His Visit to India
The QuintArnold Schwarzenegger: Well, I think that I was offered originally a Reese. But then when I met Jim Cameron, for lunch, and we talked about the movie and we talked about the Terminator character and all that stuff, he said to me, “I would like you to play the Terminator.” And even though I didn’t agree with him at that point, I told him, give me some time to think about it, because I thought that I am playing Reese. He said, “Take your time, just let me know because I think that it would be spectacular if you played the Terminator. He said to me, ‘I’m going to shoot it in such a way that this character would end up being one of the top villains in history. Even in this movie, the whole idea that he is questioning his own programming, that he grows a conscience, that he lives with human beings, and that he starts adopting human behaviour and stuff like that, but still is a killing machine – I think it’s brilliant.
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