It’s been 35 years since Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton first faced off on screen in James Cameron’s “The Terminator”. Sitting down with the actors ahead of the premiere of “Terminator: Dark Fate”, ET Canada’s Keshia Chante discovered there are a few things the actors would rather leave in the past.
“Pretty much I would say to myself, ‘Never go on film in 1984 cause you’ve got really really bad hair’,” Hamilton jokes, sharing the advice she’d give to her 1984 self. “People are like, ‘Did you ever expect to come back?’ and I’m like ‘With that hair?!’ I mean a really pretty awful time in the world for hair.”
For Schwarzenegger, 72, the original 1984 film was a major turning point in his career.
“In 1984 the way we did the movie was great. The way my career went after that was really well,” he says. “I cannot really say, ‘here’s one thing that I could have done better.’ Yes, I have chosen certain movies sometimes that didn’t do that well. And some movies that went through the roof, but there’s no science behind it. You never really know what clicks and what doesn’t with the audience but I’m very satisfied with my career.”
In “Terminator: Dark Fate” Schwarzenegger is passing off the “I’ll be back” torch to Hamilton who gets to utter the iconic line in the new movie.
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“I knew that she was going to say it but I was curious with how she was going to use it,” he says. “And I thought it was really great. And to kind of pass that line on to her because I’ve said it a million times in the movies and off-screen.”
One of the things Hamilton, 63, did off-screen was get her training routine down to a science, making sure she balanced her fitness regimen with some much-needed downtime.
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“I discovered for a woman of my age to be doing all that action, lifting those weights, training so hard, that really rest is so much more important! You can’t build muscle until you rest. And so rest is more important than ever so I would just lay down, and rest my body, and then take my mind elsewhere so I read 40 books on this film,” she says, joking she’s in a “Terminator” book club all by herself.
“Terminator: Dark Fate” opens in theatres on Nov. 1.