ApexOversteer
03-25-2014, 9:40pm
In the Hercules thread the subject of Arnold playing the T-800 in Terminator: Genesis was discussed, and suddenly here is the man himself commenting...
So, how exactly do they intend to have 83 year old Schwarzenegger playing the killer robot? Robots don't age... or do they...
Speaking to Nerdist.com live yesterday...
The director wants me to be exactly the same as I was in 1984. Because the person — I have human flesh, underneath is a metal skeleton — but the human flesh ages just like everyone else does. The skeleton doesn’t change. So it has to be the same body, physically the same thing, even though you may have show a little grey and all those things… So it’s very important that now I step it up with the workout.
I [need to] gain an extra 5-7 pounds of pure muscle and get that body back that I had then so we can switch from Terminator to the character I play now, kind of a Terminator-protector character, so we can switch back and forth to a 25-year old versus a 35-year old versus a 55-year old, when it’s in the future of 2029. So all of this and then play around with it, the body will stay the same but the makeup will change and the hair will change.
Speaking with MTV today, he clarifies a tiny bit...
The way that the character is written, it’s a machine underneath. It’s this metal skeleton. But above that is human flesh. And the Terminator’s flesh ages, just like any other human being’s flesh. Maybe not as fast. But it definitely ages… Terminator deals a lot with time travel, so there will be a younger T-800, and then what that model does later on when it gets reprogrammed, and who gets ahold of him. So it will be all kinds of interesting twists in the movie, but I feel so good.
I'm still calling the production using a younger body double with '84-vintage Arnold's face CGI'd on for the scenes involving the original T-800.
That said, this is an interesting idea. It does explain why he looks so different between the '84 film and T2.
So, how exactly do they intend to have 83 year old Schwarzenegger playing the killer robot? Robots don't age... or do they...
Speaking to Nerdist.com live yesterday...
The director wants me to be exactly the same as I was in 1984. Because the person — I have human flesh, underneath is a metal skeleton — but the human flesh ages just like everyone else does. The skeleton doesn’t change. So it has to be the same body, physically the same thing, even though you may have show a little grey and all those things… So it’s very important that now I step it up with the workout.
I [need to] gain an extra 5-7 pounds of pure muscle and get that body back that I had then so we can switch from Terminator to the character I play now, kind of a Terminator-protector character, so we can switch back and forth to a 25-year old versus a 35-year old versus a 55-year old, when it’s in the future of 2029. So all of this and then play around with it, the body will stay the same but the makeup will change and the hair will change.
Speaking with MTV today, he clarifies a tiny bit...
The way that the character is written, it’s a machine underneath. It’s this metal skeleton. But above that is human flesh. And the Terminator’s flesh ages, just like any other human being’s flesh. Maybe not as fast. But it definitely ages… Terminator deals a lot with time travel, so there will be a younger T-800, and then what that model does later on when it gets reprogrammed, and who gets ahold of him. So it will be all kinds of interesting twists in the movie, but I feel so good.
I'm still calling the production using a younger body double with '84-vintage Arnold's face CGI'd on for the scenes involving the original T-800.
That said, this is an interesting idea. It does explain why he looks so different between the '84 film and T2.