![]() Bodybuilding was nothing in this country. I mean, when you think about the kind of help I got as a bodybuilder. I know about journalism, and I have been largely a creation of media. ![]() “You know my wife (Maria Shriver, host of NBC-TV’s ‘First Person With Maria Shriver’) is a journalist. So you don’t hear me screaming, ‘This is unfair!’ We (‘True Lies’) have been listed as the top movie in every one of those roundups, including Premiere magazine, which said we are the No. “I would never go and say, ‘This is unfair.’ Look at this year. This is something you just have to ride out. Don’t think you did anything wrong.’ I kept everyone’s spirit up, to let them know it’s not them. ![]() “I called (‘Last Action Hero’ director) John McTiernan - ‘You did a great job. I always kept calling Columbia (Pictures, which released ‘Last Action Hero’) and said, ‘You guys did a great job. As a matter of fact, I always tried to keep the ship floating. “If this would have been the only thing I would have going for myself in life I would have been probably depressed that way. And the next day you’ll benefit from it because they’ll say, ‘He’s back.’ ” (In “The Terminator,” “I’ll be back” was a Schwarzenegger catch phrase.) If they feel story-wise it will be a better story if they beat up on you, then so be it. Ninety-five percent of the time the press has been so kind. … You can’t get all crazy about that, either. “You just have to step back and let everyone do their number the way they please. Schwarzenegger, who will be 47 on July 30, said he holds no hard feelings toward the media over the critical and commercial drubbing of “Last Action Hero”: If it would have made one more step, I would have been dead, that I know for sure.” One hoof was literally hanging off the roof of the hotel. “I did jump into the fountain … and riding on top of the hotel roof where I almost got killed myself because the horse freaked out at one point and stepped back, and there was no railing there. “I’m very familiar with horseback riding because I had done so much in the ‘Conan’ movies and I have my own horses,” Schwarzenegger said. Schwarzenegger flies a Harrier “jump jet” hangs from a helicopter’s skids surfaces in icy water dives underneath the surface to avoid an exploding fuel depot rides a horse through a hotel lobby, and dances the tango on two occasions with Curtis and Carrere. Cameron has been reluctant to talk about how specific effects are accomplished in his movies.įilming took place from August through December last year in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Miami, the Florida Keys, Rhode Island and California’s High Sierra Mountains. “Since people always liked James Bond-type movies and ‘Raiders’ (Indiana Jones) movies … I felt that this movie could be made into a big movie and still keep the basic premise of the domestic problem,” said Schwarzenegger, who is paid about $15 million per movie.Īs with other summer releases, including “Forrest Gump,” “The Lion King,” “The Shadow” and the upcoming “The Mask,” Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) was crucial to the making of “True Lies.” Cameron used Digital Domain, founded by himself, Stan Winston and Scott Ross, to accomplish the CGI effects. Fox spokesmen also would not reveal the movie’s budget, although one said that even $100 million was an exaggeration. Cameron denied that, referring budget questions to representatives of 20th Century Fox, which is distributing the movie. It has been reported that “True Lies” cost upwards of $120 million. Cameron previously directed Schwarzenegger in “The Terminator” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” Known for his handling of big-budget, special-effects-laden, fantasy-action movies, Cameron also directed “Aliens” and “The Abyss.”
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