Arnold Schwarzenegger Talked James Cameron Into Making Him the Terminator
It's hard to believe, but it's been almost forty years since James Cameron changed movies forever with the release of The Terminator in 1984. At just 30 years old, this was Cameron's breakthrough, with his only other feature film being the low-budget Piranha II: The Spawning in 1981.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Says O.J. Simpson Was the First Choice In 1984, James Cameron might not have been famous yet, but Arnold Schwarzenegger was. He was the larger-than-life, Austrian bodybuilder who had won seven Mr. Olympias and four Mr. Universe bodybuilding titles before transitioning to acting with roles in films such as Conan the Barbarian in 1982.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Convinced James Cameron To Give Him the Terminator Role Instead At the lunch, Schwarzenegger told Cameron his thoughts about the film, focusing on the Terminator, who he wouldn't even be playing. He brought up Yul Brenner's killer robotic performance from Westworld. "Everything was kind of off because he was not like a human being, there was something wrong here, but you couldn't identify exactly what it was.
According to James Cameron, O.J. Simpson Was Never a Serious Choice This interview is not the only time Schwarzenegger has brought up that O.J. Simpson was the first choice to be the Terminator. It's come up in other interviews as well, including in 2019 with The Independent. “It was actually O.J. Simpson that was the first cast Terminator. Then somehow [James Cameron] felt that he was not as believable for a killing machine. So then they hired me. That’s really what happened.
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