Arnold Schwarzenegger - Movie
By Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist
Arnold Schwarzenegger
He’s Back And He’s Still
Bad!
Photos
Courtesy of Lionsgate Films
He has basically been there and done it
all from being a professional body building world champion that includes an amazing
seven “Mr. Olympia” titles that is still the record to being a successful
businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, best-selling author, the highest
paid action hero in Hollywood and California’s 38th Governor.
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| Schwarzenegger as Sheriff Ray Owens |
Love
him or hate him, Arnold Schwarzenegger is back on the big silver screen with a
new action flick “The Last Stand.”
This movie may be one of his best yet in terms of the plot, action and of
course the famous comedic one-liners. Schwarzenegger does not disappoint and
appears to have not lost one step with his acting chops while serving a seven
year stint as California Governor. In short – he’s back and well on his way to
another block buster hit.
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| Johnny Knoxville and Schwarzenegger |
When asked the obvious question of his
comeback, Schwarzenegger is all smiles to explain saying, “First of all, it’s
great to be back. As you remember, that when I got into the Governorship in
2003, I said I only would go and run the
State for the seven years that were remaining then I would be back into the
movie business. So it was just sort of kind of stepping out of the movie
business rather than now I’m going back to the movie business. I was a public
servant for seven years working for the State of California; now I’m back
again.
The only thing is; that when you have left the movie business for seven
years, it’s kind of like a scary thing to come back because you don’t know if
you are accepted or not. There could be a whole new generation of action heroes
who come up in the meantime. Things change very quickly in our business but I was
very pleasantly surprised when I was doing the cameo in “The Expendables” that
there was such a great positive reaction towards my appearance that Sly asked
me then to do the second “Expendables” and there was even a bigger reaction. So
this is now my first starring role and I’m very happy that I chose a movie to
work with very talented people and a producer that I had full trust in because
we have worked
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| Jaimie Alexander and Schwarzenegger |
together
on several projects before and we kept our relationship alive throughout the
seven years. So Lorenzo(Lorenzo di Bonaventura the film’s producer), came to me
and said I want to have your first movie. So it’s really great to be back and
watch the reaction of the people. Acting wise I felt comfortable being back
again. It’s kind of like riding a bike or skiing, you click right back into it
again.”
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| The crack team |
While he was away in Sacramento, did he
miss Hollywood and now that he is back, does he miss anything about Sacramento?
Schwarzenegger chuckles, “I really didn’t miss anything. I think that you get
so engrossed in what you are doing and it is such a huge responsibility to run
a State. California is the number one State in the union and this is the number
one country so you really have a huge responsibility especially when you have
legislators that are somewhat out of control. And to bring republicans and
democrats together is always a miracle because everybody is so stuck into their
ideological corners that they can’t kind of free themselves from that. So it
takes a lot of effort to get things done. But because you are so into it and
passionate about serving your State, you really don’t have time to miss things
in the movie business.
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| Forest Whitaker and Schwarzenegger |
I was very happy to do that. It was the most gratifying
and the most challenging thing that I’ve ever done. It was an honor for me to
serve the people and after the seven years were done, I didn’t look for another
public servant job because I didn’t want to be a career politician. I didn’t
see myself as that and I went back to the movie business. It’s great now to be
back again and I can turn it off. There’s not much I miss about being Governor.
I’m on with my USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy. I’m
working on policy and environmental issues on an ongoing basis and at the same
time I will be doing movies.”
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