While some actors of this generation spend their time sipping coffee and clamoring about their unfair and demanding job, actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger are busy fighting an alien in the backyard who is twice the size.
The Terminator star has lived his life like an actual machine who was never afraid of wounds. Many of us would think that opening up his flesh would unravel some mechanical parts that keep him going, but that’s unfortunately not the case.
What keeps him going is his dedication to his job. Directors in the ‘80s and ‘90s saw him as this hot piece of muscular cake and wanted to cast him in as many projects as possible.
The actor is now 75, but he can take out a mary band of killers with explosions that would be seen from miles away. That’s exactly how his acting career has been – explosive and majestic!
This $79m Film Made Arnold Schwarzenegger Unstoppable
For the most part of his career, we have seen him take out bad guys like mowing the grass on a lawn with his absolute Commando personality. But films like Jingle All the Way and Kindergarten Cop showed us his merry and comedic side.
That’s not all. Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s breakthrough project Conan the Barbarian which was released in ‘82 set the stage for him. He was seen as this invincible sword-swinging prodigy who had to defeat a sorcerer.
But the filming of this project was not as smooth as he might have hoped. The actor shared his ordeal with a painful accident right on the very first day.
“I got attacked by a dog on the very first day of shooting. He pulled me down from the rocks into a thorn bush and I had to be stitched up on the set.”
But this nightmarish incident only boosted his resolve to give out his best performance.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Nauseating Vulture Experience
Academy Award nominee John Milius left no chance to make Schwarzenegger’s character look as savage as possible, so he put him through an intensely tormenting filming regime.
While the actor got extreme support for his bravery in the dog accident from The Lion King himself – James Earl Jones and Milius as well, the latter made sure that his character appears to be out there for blood.
Cinema has advanced so much in the last two decades that we can pretty much immerse ourselves in scenes that are pure CGI. But that was not how Conan the Barbarian was shot.
Remember the scene with Arnold Schwarzenegger hanging on a tree with a vulture trying to eat him? Oh, that was an actual dead vulture.
“I had to bite a real dead vulture because in those days they couldn’t make one that would look good in a close-up. So they soaked it in alcohol to kill bacteria and dried it out. It still had lice.”
We can already feel our stomachs getting uncomfortable but the actor braved this scene among the many.
Arnold Schwarzenegger will be next seen in the martial arts comedy Kung Fury 2 that’s in post-production and will reportedly be released on November 17, this year.
Source: Movieweb
