The Terminator Script Didn’t Grab Arnold Schwarzenegger at First
The terrific new book The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood’s Kings of Carnage, written by Nick de Semlyen, reveals that Schwarzenegger was not initially impressed by the Terminator script.
“Still, urged to take a good look at the script by his girlfriend Maria, who had been hooked by it when it arrived at their home, he agreed to meet its writer -director for lunch,” de Semlyen writes.
Maria, of course, was Maria Shriver, to whom Schwarzenegger was married from 1986 to 2021.
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