For years, a piece of rumored “Terminator” lore has plagued creator James Cameron. Schwarzenegger himself has said so, many times over the years, spinning a wild yarn about an original Cameron painting of the T-800 gifted to him by the director that hangs on his office wall. If you scraped off Arnold’s likeness, Arnold claimed in numerous interviews, you’d find O.J. Simpson as The Terminator and Arnold Schwarzenegger as [Kyle] Reese.’”Advertisement"[Producer and co-screenwriter] Gale Hurd and I looked at each other like that was the stupidest thing we’d ever heard in our lives,” said Cameron. “I was very negative on the idea of Arnold playing Reese,” Cameron remembered.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 25, 2019 18:45 UTC