Arnold Schwarzenegger Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters | GQ

free time and it was time to prepare the new shot to spend time with the children and I think it was the smartest thing because I was not an expert with the children I had. I didn't have kids of my own yet, this was really a great way to learn how to deal with kids and how to entertain them and how to get them to trust you and then, like out of nowhere, get out of all this kind of commotion and fun. With the kids, you know, all of a sudden, when I saw Ivan doing this, he was roaring and we continued to have fun with the kids, so we had a lot of success with the kids, they were great actors and some of them became great actors later on and so on. successively, shut up, shut up, but what I liked about Kindergarten Cop was that it was a very brutal movie.

In the beginning, to hunt down this drug, the lord and this bad guy, it gave me the opportunity to become the toughest cop and then have to develop this other side of me because I'm not stuck with the kids that I have to do. Now I deal with children, I can't deal with them like I did in the beginning, like I would with an adult, but you know, I realized that that's not the way to deal with children, that you have to understand them. communicate with them and you also have to develop a certain love for them and a certain heart for them and then I was able to show my softer or more feminine side and I think that's what made it really work well. in the movie what's wrong my head hurts it could be a tumor it's not a tumor batman and drama well, funnily enough my motivation originally was to work with joel schumacher i thought his directing style was so brilliant and there was always a certain kind of intensity in his films, but also a certain informality, so I saw him direct one of them on the set and I saw his style and I loved when he always said to the actors and the aunt said: let's make one for the artist.

I mean, young people take whatever they want to do and I thought it was just fantastic because every actor always wants to do a take their own way rather than being directed or controlled and Joshua provided that and the other thing was George Clooney. He was an upcoming star, uh, on the national star, he was brilliant to work with, he was very, very nice and a sweet guy to work with, so we had a great time, the only thing was, being Mr. Freeze , I had to sit down. five hours doing makeup and putting on all these outfits and it's all every day, so it took a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work.

I succeeded, however, absolutely one more giant diamond of this size and my frozen engine will be complete. I finished the movie Eraser for uh Warner Brothers and they were so happy with my performance in Eraser that they came to me and said, would you play opposite George Clooney and play the main villain? You know, Chuck Niholson played Danny Devito, etc. We have a long list of big stars who have played these types of roles and I said yes. When I read the script, I thought it was a great, very entertaining script and I said yes. Jingle all the way.

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murders and things like that, but then come back with something completely opposite, which is a very entertaining movie because of its comedy, the Christmas movie . Jingle all the way was one of those fantastic scripts that I was offered and I thought everyone, you know me just running after this toy and then running around and having someone else trying to do the same thing and obviously that creates a big fight. between us, so there was action there, but very comical and very touching, also because I'm trying to satisfy my son that I promised him this turbo man toy and, uh, it was all about the madness of chasing Christmas around the corner from the corner. and I have to get it now and they're resolved and all this.

I had a great time doing that and it's still the favorite Christmas movie day that people are watching and every December this movie is being shown. on television and abroad you also did very well going out just tell her I'd be a few minutes late but you shouldn't worry oh she won't worry I mean I'm here and um oh these cookies I have to get Liz's recipe she left that cookie now many Sometimes people make me repeat the line, you know, this is, can you say deadline?, but it's again one of those things that you know, you say it and you have no idea, but I remember standing there, uh and and yelling and but it they cook now you know that people loved predator predator it was an interesting project because it read very well it was very intense but it was an ensemble piece it was very clear that there will be, you know, five Six guys who will go to the jungle and the time of screen will be divided between all of us.

I think I was hesitant about that idea at first and then when I was in Mexico and filming in the jungle, as it was. As I developed the story, I enjoyed it more and more because it's so fun to work with a group of guys like that, they were all really great guys and easy to work with and there were certain dynamics that they all had and developed and that's how I thought. it was written brilliantly by John Mcternan who directed the film, he had only directed one other film before which I think was called Nomads so it took a lot of faith from the studio and all of us but the man who pulled it off was so good .

I was so thoughtful in the direction because of the way I moved the camera to give it suspense, so the atmosphere created in the jungle with that fog all the time was a little scary and never showing the predator until the end, I thought that was like that . It was just brilliantly done and it was amazing how much action they allowed me to do. You know, this is, of course, where we had this line. You know, where the guy just walked up to my right side and they sold me. my peripheral vision and they took the knife away from me and stuck it in the heart and it got stuck on this post and I said stay, you know, so it was just another one of those really cool lines that I like that are made up in this case. particular. stay there was really amazing when we finally showed the predator and it was created by Stan Winston who was one of the brightest makeup and special effects guys and I think he won the academy twice and stuff like that, but he built that and created that and It was very well made, it was very tall.

They had a basketball player who was like seven foot two and he was wearing this kind of mask, you know, and his outfit looked scary. It looked slimy It looked weird It looked so bad that it was natural for me to say that you are an ugly mother. You know, they became kind of natural. It was kind of an impromptu deadline and then they kept it in the movie. Tell the retreat. It was after total retirement for many years that Dino de la Rendus owned the film and was going to make it with Jeff Pritchett, so I was very happy when Dino Delaurentis ran into financial problems at one point and had to sell some of the projects and one of the projects he sold was in a complete withdrawal.

I called Andy Vanya and Mario Kazaa immediately and told them that you have to buy this project from me that afternoon, when I called them, they bought the project from Dino and then I met Paul Verhoeven. a few days later everything was as it should be, i met paul valejo a few days later at the restaurant and i said paul, i just saw robocop, he's amazing, i said what a great job you did, i said: would you ever want to do it? he works with me and he says absolutely, I said well, maybe I have a project for you.

Can I send it to you? Then, the afternoon Karaka contacted him, she sent it to her agent and fell in love with the script. he came on board and that's how it all came about. He was also smart to take it to Mexico because Mexico City has a fantastic location, very futuristic buildings and it looks like you can use them and you are also very free to use. the city and there were great profits there and a great workforce as well and I think the movie turned out fantastic, it was 53 million dollars or whatever the budget was for those days, it was a lot, but today it's actually not that much and it was released . to a big box office hit, it al

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made $30 million on opening weekend and it made $130 million domestically and almost $300 million worldwide, so it was really very, very successful and we were very happy with the way it came out and I tried to copy it.

Someone tried to make a new version. How stupid is that, I mean, Jesus, I want to give these people some air, my friend, in five minutes, you won't mind the excited people, doctor. There is nothing to this oh really yes, Sharon Stone was a very hard working actress. You know, she really made me shine in the movie. She played this wife of mine who was doing bad things to me and I couldn't wait to get rid of her. You know, then it was the famous interior scene where I finally shot him because they considered this a divorce, that was one of my favorite lines, honey, be reasonable, we are married after all, true lies, well, again, we went very lucky to have Jim Cameron.

He, a French movie, uh la to tao, which was a million dollar movie, was made for a million dollars in France, but the concept that was there was so brilliant that Jim saw it and said, let's do it and that's it. You know, it's very difficult to do. For Cameron to make the movie, he fell in love with it, he went out and wrote the script and, of course, he wrote it huge, as you can see, it took us six months to film. We were all over the place, you know, from Los Angeles, Washington. and miami and the keys and i mean everywhere, but jamie lee curtis was wonderful to work with because i knew jamie lee curry is in skeed video and sun valley, so we have a house there in sun valley and we knew each other very well.

Well, when they cast her I was really excited because I thought she was a really good actress, so it was great to work with her on this movie and I think she's also very, very funny, she nails the comic. the comedy in the movie uh because the whole thing was a very intense movie but it had its funny moments because the very fact that my wife didn't know what my job was and that I as a husband didn't know that his desire is to do something similar like that to be a secret agent, so I think that's what made it really funny, wait, wait, Harry, yes he's hairy, I know it looks bad, but I can explain if you were actually riding the horse in those scenes when you're running. the mall and everything, yeah, so I would say there was only one horse scene that was a jump over a fountain, which I'm glad I didn't do because the professional rider took out the undead and broke his head and I was like you.

I know he got some stitches in his face for that, so immediately something came off because it was so wet and the horses then slipped and it was wet, so I said, "I'm not going to do that, let someone else do that." particular thing, but all the other scenes in the elevator on top of the roof through a georgetown in washington through the park all those scenes were done i rode the horse terminator dark fate you know in terminator you know i can do those movies germinated from here to eternity The trick is, and I think it's done very cleverly, the body underneath the endoskeleton, the metal skeleton, all of that remains the same, so the abilities that they have remain the same, but the The exterior of the flesh ages like any other human flesh.

It makes me look older and you know you can make a movie like that 30 years later, that's the best thing about writing and I love making the Terminator movies, especially when there's continued growth in the character and what you'll see in This Terminator is that it's been like in Terminator 2 where there's a little bit of human behavior that he starts to adopt and this is even a lot more that it has some kind of effect on the way that he was programmed, in what point cancels it? his own voice of programming those kinds of problems that we're dealing with in this movie, so it's really fascinating, well written, Cameron was involved in that and, as you know, I think the world of his creativity and his his thinking and his talent, so he's very passionate about Terminator, he got involved in it, he brought Linda Hamilton back to the project and brought her into the project as a main character, so we had a wonderful time with Tim Miller directing it, I can see that. you're really upset I'm going to help you protect the girl you know it doesn't really make any difference to me I think everyone has advantages and disadvantages I think uh is the advantage of playing a hero obviously is that you're the heroic guy who wins a ending and all that.

As a villain, you have the advantage that you can go all out and do things that you normally can't do as a hero because it wouldn't be a sure thing, it can be a sure thing. The cruelty in the way you kill people and all that, that's why I did the cool thing about being the Terminator because he didn't care, I mean he's a machine so he just comes out with toys, you just know you know. and he rips your heart out, uh, like I've shown him in Terminator one, so he'll just rip your head off and he won't think twice before blood spurts out or something, that's none of his business, so I think it doesn't even appear on his face that he has any satisfaction when he kills five people in a second and people really enjoy watching him.villains and watching them do nasty things where they're like, "Oh my God, I have to close my eyes." I love that there's nothing they love more than when they make a movie and we've seen it in Terminator, we've seen it with total recall where certain things where people just close their eyes and say I can't stand it, you know because that's really entertaining, It has been a great honor to participate in a film in which you are voted as one of the 10 best heroes but at the same time as one of the best villains.

I don't think there was anyone out there who was put into that kind of category before I did it. I don't really have a favorite because I don't really know what the definition of that is. You know how that's different for everyone? I think, without a doubt, my favorite way to make the movie was Twins and the Kindergarten Police. We laughed all day. It was entertaining like being with Danny Devito and the preteens of being a kindergarten cop with a bunch of kids. It always throws you off because they always say don't work with children or animals, but I had a great time working with those kids, it was really fantastic and you know you give them a lot of room for improvisation because the kids are improvising, they don't stick to the script. , they wouldn't even know how to follow through with the script, so I think that makes it very lively, so I had a great time making those two movies, but when it comes to my favorite, when?

The result then you have to add also, of course, true lies or Terminator, which some of the Terminator movies that they have made, whether they are one or two, or the last one, Dark Fade, you know, there are a lot of movies that come into game. that field, but it's always very difficult to just say that this is my favorite. Well, thank you so much for listening to my kind of rant about the

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I've played. If I missed any of the movies, maybe we'll talk about it. In the future it's okay see you baby