August 29, 2003
THE SPERMINATOR
Arnold Schwarzenegger must be a great campaigner because it's not
his first time
href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.html">pressing
the flesh, as they say. Here is he is pandering for minority votes
in a 1977 interview with a hardcore porn mag:
"Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold's--the gym
in Venice, California, where all the top guys train--there was a black
girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs,
where we all got together."
Aside from all the frank revelations of sex and drug use, however,
there is an ironic passage at the end of the href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/arnoldinter5.html">article a> when Arnold discusses his acting potential:
"I'm looking for the right vehicles, and I pretty much
know what I want. Do you know Hemingway's short story The Killers?
I'd like to do a remake, play the guy the two mobsters are after--the
Swede [played by Burt Lancaster in the href="http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0038669/">original]. I
realize there's only one Arnold in the world, that there's never been
an Arnold before, and the one thing that won't work is my being an ass-
kicker on screen. If Rober De Niro kills in Taxi Driver it's perfect,
because he's a little guy and people are 100 percent behind him. For
me that isn't the right kind of role because I'm big and therefore I
have to play the opposite kind of guy. When you build a career, you
should never imitate anybody. If there's one thing I ought to do, it's
the unexpected. Whether it's The Killers or something else, I probably
should play the victim."
Of course, his entire career was based on the exact opposite of his
thoughts at this time. Tagged:
Posted by Lexiphane at August 29, 2003 1:33 PM
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