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• EXPENDABL 3 CHARACTERS PLAYED BY ARNIE AND JET LI ARE GAY, SAYS DIRECTOR
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER’S PARENTS THOUGHT HE WAS GAY DUE TO 'NAKED MEN' POSTERS
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER'S EXPENDABL 3 CHARACTER IS GAY, SAYS DIRECTOR
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER’S PARENTS ‘EAKED OUT’ HE WAS GAY BEE HE HUNG POSTERS OF ‘OILED UP NAKED MEN’ TEENAGE BEDROOM
• GEE TAKEI SHAR WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT AGE 68
• GEE TAKEI REVEALS HE CAME OUT AS GAY BEE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER REJECTED GAY MARRIAGE BILL: ‘I WAS SO ANGRY’ AT HIM
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: GAY PORN STAR?
• GEE TAKEI SHAR WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT AGE 68
• PUMPG IRON: EXCLIVE, RARELY SEEN PHOTOS AND STORI OF THE FILM THAT BUILT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGERCELEBRATE THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MCLE-BOUND DOCUDRAMA THAT STARTED ALL.BY JOANNA ROBSONJUNE 16, 2017SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPUMPG IRON: 20 RARELY SEEN PHOTOS OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER1 / 20CHEVRONCHEVRON© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.ARNOLD ALWAYS WORKED ON HIS POS AND THOUGHT ABOUT PETG. HERE HE IS PRACTICG ON THE ROOF OF HIS NDO. SANTA MONI, CALIFORNIA, 1973.IT’S BEEN 40 YEARS SCE THE GLISTENG, FLEXG BICEPS OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, LOU FERRIGNO, AND THE RT OF THE GIANTS OF THE PROFSNAL BODYBUILDG SCENE BURST TO THE POP CULTURE NVERSATN VIA DIRECTOR GEE BUTLER’S DOCUDRAMA PUMPG IRON. THE FILM WAS THE ULTIMATE UNRDOG STORY, NOT BEE OF THE WAY THE PETN PLAYS OUT ON-SCREEN (SPOILER ALERT, SCHWARZENEGGER STARTS THE FILM AS A BODYBUILDG STAR AND ENDS THE FILM AN EVEN BIGGER BODYBUILDG STAR), BUT BEE OF THE GREAT LENGTHS BUTLER WENT TO TO GET MA. IN THE BURGEONG DAYS OF DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKG, NOBODY WANTED TO BACK BUTLER AND HIS PARTNER, ROBERT FRE, TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT A NICHE SPORT STARRG A HANDSOME ATRIAN WHOM NO ONE OUTSI THE BODYBUILDG WORLD HAD EVER HEARD OF.BUT BUTLER AND FRE PRSED, ON AND THE RT IS FILM HISTORY. BOTH SCHWARZENEGGER AND LOU FERRIGNO WOULD GO ON TO BEE HOEHOLD NAM, AND FOR THOSE CUR TO SEE HOW AN ATRIAN BODYBUILR ULD NQUER NOT ONLY HOLLYWOOD BUT THE WORLD OF POLICS TOO, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE NAKED AMBN, CLEVER LCULATN, AND TANIC WORK ETHIC SCHWARZENEGGER PUTS ON DISPLAY PUMPG IRON. GEE BUTLER—WHO, ALONGSI CHARL GA, SHOT THE 1974 BOOK OF THE SAME NAME—HAS SHARED SOME NDID, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS OM SCHWARZENEGGER’S PUMPG IRON DAYS LLECTED THE GALLERY ABOVE. HE’S ALSO ANSWERED A FEW OF OUR QUTNS ABOUT SOME OF THE LEGACI AND MYTHS THAT HAVE SPNG UP AROUND THE FILM THE PAST 40 YEARS. PUMPG IRON WILL PLAY AT THE FILM SOCIETY OF LLN CENTER'S WALTER REA THEATER ON AUGT 17 AS PART OF A 40TH ANNIVERSARY SERI CELEBRATG THE CEMA OF 1977.VANY FAIR: BEFORE PUMPG IRON, THERE WAS A STIGMA AROUND BODYBUILDG THAT ONLY GAY MEN PARTICIPATED THE SPORT. WAS THAT SOMETHG THE MACHISMO OF THE DOCUMENTARY AND SCHWARZENEGGER’S BEHAVR AROUND WOMEN SPECIFILLY TRIED TO ADDRS?GEE BUTLER: Y, THERE WAS A STIGMA THOSE DAYS. WE WANTED EVERYONE TO E ACROSS AS THEMSELV— AND WH ARNOLD ONT AND CENTER, THE FILM TOOK ON A CERTA CHARACTER. IT WAS CLEAR THIS WAS A TOUGH SPORT.YOU MENTN THE 2002 DOCUMENTARY RAW IRON THAT THE 1975 I.F.B.B. MR. UNIVERSE AND MR. OLYMPIA NTTS WERE THE FIRST TERRACIAL PETNS TO BE HELD SOUTH AI. PUMPG IRON DON’T REALLY TOUCH ON THAT EVEN THOUGH SERGE NUBRET OUT OF NOWHERE TO GRAB SEND PLACE BEHD SCHWARZENEGGER. WAS THERE EVER AN IA TO EXPLORE THAT ASPECT OF THE BODYBUILDG SCENE?I WAS TERTED DIVIDUAL CHARACTER; A GROUP OF GUYS G THEIR WS AND BODI TO PETE AND W. SO I WAS LS TERTED RACIAL TEGORI THAN DIVIDUALS.© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.YOU’VE SAID THAT IALLY THE IA WAS TO PRENT LOU FERRIGNO AS THE VILLA OPPOSN TO SCHWARZENEGGER’S HERO. BUT SCHWARZENEGGER HAS SAID THAT EVENTUALLY HE REALIZED THAT FERRIGNO WAS TOO “VULNERABLE” TO BE THE BAD GUY. AT WHAT POT DID YOU REALIZE THIS AS WELL?MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDLOUIE IS A TOUCHG CHARACTER. I KNEW EARLY ON THAT HE ULDN'T BE A VILLA, BUT THAT HE HAD A CENTRAL PART. LOUIE WAS PERFECT AS THE MOCK VILLA, HOWEVER. ARNOLD WORKED OUT ON THE BEACH, OUTDOORS SUNSHE, LOUIE THE GYM, THE SHADOWS—WHICH IS THE FILM, WAS SO PERFECT—LOUIE WAS BIGGER, DARKER, HE WAS EVERYTHG OPPOSE OF ARNOLD. HE ALSO GREW STATURE DURG THE NTT AND HIS TRAG. PEOPLE WHO WATCH THE MOVIE FOR THE FIRST TIME NOW ARE AMAZED TO SEE THAT ARNOLD IS NOT THE UNEQUIVOL STAR OF THE FILM.BEE FERRIGNO ULDN’T FILL THE CLASSIC VILLA ROLE, PARTWAY THROUGH THE FILM SCHWARZENEGGER STARTS PLAYG THE HEEL AND BOASTG ABOUT HIS ABILY TO MENTALLY MANIPULATE HIS PETN. HOW MUCH OF THIS WAS FABRITED FOR THE SAKE OF TELLG A GOOD STORY? SCHWARZENEGGER HAS SCE SAID WAS ALMOST ALL FABRITED.NOT TE. WE DIDN'T FABRITE SCEN THE SENSE OF VENTG SUATNS OUT OF TH AIR. WE ME UP WH SUATNS THAT WOULD DIRECTLY REVEAL CHARACTER. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT I HAD DONE THE BOOK PUMPG IRON (WH WRER CHARL GA) BEFORE THE MOVIE, AND I KNEW ARNOLD AND THE OTHERS VERY, VERY WELL. SO WE ME UP WH SUATNS THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO PLAY THEMSELV, SO TO SPEAK.© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.THERE ARE SO MANY HEARTWARMG SCEN THE PHOTOS WE’RE FEATURG HERE, LIKE SCHWARZENEGGER POSG WH THE OLR WOMEN. HOW MANY OF HIS MORE CHARMG TERACTNS WERE CUT ORR TO CREATE A CERTA NARRATIVE?I DON'T THK WE PAID ANY ATTENTN TO THAT. WE WERE FOLLOWG A DRAMATIC ACTN—THE PETN—AND SO WE HAD TO FOLLOW THAT, NOT DILUTE THAT.SCHWARZENEGGER IS REFUL TO LL THE FILM A “DOCUDRAMA” BASED ON THE HEIGHTENED DRAMATIC ELEMENTS. DO BOTHER YOU AT ALL THAT SOME PEOPLE MISTAKENLY INTIFY PUMPG IRON AS A DOCUMENTARY?MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDY, I WHDREW OM THE 1977 AMY AWARDS BEE I DID NOT THK WAS PURELY, STRICTLY A DOCUMENTARY—A DOCUMENTARY THOSE DAYS WAS MORE LIKE AN STERE HISTORY BOOK. TODAY WOULD BE DIFFERENT—CREATIVE LIBERTI ARE ROUTELY TAKEN TO GET TO THE TTH. BUT WE WERE AT THE ABSOLUTE BEGNG OF A GENRE, MAKG A KD OF NONFICTN MOVIE NOVEL.WHAT’S A SCHWARZENEGGER STORY OM THE PUMPG IRON DAYS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE PEOPLE?Y, I HAVE A GREAT ONE. ARNOLD THE OAK ED TO GET LUNCH AT THE BROWN BAGGER VENICE. HE’D S AT A TABLE WH ALL THE BIG BODY BUILRS. IT WAS MOST IMPORTANT TO ARNOLD TO GET A TAN AFTER LUNCH, SO HE’D BE AT THE BEACH SCENE, LYG ON A LTLE PATCH OF GRASS WH THE OTHER BODY BUILRS, LIKE LOU FERRIGNO AND EDDIE GUILLIANI, WHO WAS A GREAT TRICKSTER BY THE WAY. ARNOLD WALKED UP TO A U.C.L.A .CHEERLEAR AND ASKED HOW’D SHE LIKE TO POSE WH THE BT BODY BUILRS THE WORLD, AND THAT SHE SHOULD GET TO KNOW THEM. HE SAT DOWN ON THE GRASS BI HER AND PRETEND TO GO TO SLEEP, FAVORG THE U.C.L.A. CHEERLEAR OVER HIS BODY-BUILR IENDS. SUDNLY SHE WAS AWARE WE WERE FILMG. HER EY BRIGHTENED, SHE LOOKED AT HIM AND ASKED, “ARE YOU SHOOTG 16MM FILM?” ARNIE, KNOWG A LTLE ABOUT WHAT SHE WAS ASKG, SAID “Y,” TO WHICH SHE RPOND, “UH UH, WELL, I ONLY DO 35MM.”YOU HAD TO GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO GET THIS FILM FUND. YOU WERE LGHED OUT OF PCH MEETGS BUT, OF URSE, YOU HAD THE LAST LGH. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO ENURAGE STGGLG FILMMAKERS OUT THERE?ONWARD. ALWAYS ONWARD. YOU’LL N TO EVERYTHG YOU NEED, IF YOU JT KEEP MOMENTUM.JOANNA ROBSON

EXPENDABL 3 CHARACTERS PLAYED BY ARNIE AND JET LI ARE GAY, SAYS DIRECTOR

Arnold Schwarzenegger's mother thought he was gay. "I don't know if mum thought I was gay, or if she jt thought there was somethg off, and 'let's tch early, '" Schwarzenegger said. The director of The Expendabl 3, Patrick Hugh, has nfirmed ter speculatn that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jet Li play gay lovers the actn sequel.

Homosexual characters have started to appear more regularly Hollywood films. In May, How to Tra Your Dragon 2 director Dean DeBlois revealed that Gobber the vikg om the animated film seri prefers same-sex relatnships, while Harry Potter creator JK Rowlg announced 2007 that wizard Dumbledore is gay.

Schwarzenegger had a mixed rerd on gay rights while office as ernor of California. As ernor, he performed two marriage ceremoni for gay upl durg his eight years latt Expendabl stalment opened fifth place at the US box office at the weekend wh a hl of jt $16.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER’S PARENTS THOUGHT HE WAS GAY DUE TO 'NAKED MEN' POSTERS

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- California gubernatorial ndidate Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about sex, dgs, bodybuildg and homosexualy a 1977 terview wh an adult magaze that's now makg the rounds on the Inter. Asked about homosexualy, Schwarzenegger ma clear his sexual tert was women, but said homosexualy didn't bother him.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER'S EXPENDABL 3 CHARACTER IS GAY, SAYS DIRECTOR

(Schwarzenegger appeared on Sunday night’s 60 Mut premiere; the segment about gay marriage was posted onle as a 60 Mut Web Extra.

When Stahl asked if Schwarzenegger was favor of gay marriage, he replied: “I always said that I have nothg agast people dog what they want to do.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER’S PARENTS ‘EAKED OUT’ HE WAS GAY BEE HE HUNG POSTERS OF ‘OILED UP NAKED MEN’ TEENAGE BEDROOM

Prsed by Stahl aga if he is for gay marriage, Schwarzenegger replied: “I don’t have to be for gay marriage. While we're by ntemplatg what an awful human beg Arnold Schwarzenegger is for fatherg a child out of wedlock and lyg to his wife about for 14 years, let's not fet all the other horrible thgs about Ameri's favore gay-porn-molg, serial lady-gropg, Nazi polician/statutory rapist.

"Arnold Schwarzenegger Was a Gay Porn MolThis isn't strictly horrible unls you later prent yourself, as Schwarzenegger did, as a paragon of wholome, mascule, Republin uprightns and veto two gay marriage bills. In 1977, he sat for an terview and 22-page nu photo spread for the gay magaze After Dark.

GEE TAKEI SHAR WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT AGE 68

)He also sat for Robert Mapplethorpe, and was given to more up-close-and-personal molg: Spy reported that 1975 he enjoyed a weekend vis to the tate of Spanish lnaire and gay playboy Pa Arce Gomez. Schwarzenegger's bgrapher Wendy Leigh told Radar that Schwarzenegger also sought out the affectns of wealthy gay Brish patron John Dixey, a "well-known aficnado of mcle boys" who "was very, very kd to Arnold" the late 1960s. "You have to unrstand, " Leigh told Radar, "before Arnold me on the scene, was mon currency that bodybuilrs were ls than macho— was absolutely given and accepted that they supported themselv by terg to the tast of wealthy gay men.

"The scene seemed like a pretty lame, dly homophobic joke, but now transpir Trench and Y Yang were ed a uple all asked whether he thought the pair were together by the end of the movie an terview wh Grantland, Hugh replied: "I believe they are. "Arnold Schwarzenegger has never portrayed an openly gay character on the big screen (Lnsgate)Acrdg to the blog, his admissn me wh a look 'like he jt got away wh somethg amazg. 'Trench's apparent homosexualy as a surprise the Expendabl - about as heteronormative a anchise as you're likely to fd - pecially given Schwarzenegger's history gay former Republin ernor of California vetoed two same-sex marriage bills, prid over the mencement of Proposn 8, and claimed marriage is "between a man and a woman".

Confgly, he did however perform two marriage ceremoni for gay upl his own office. In one of the episos, Arnold said his mother had ‘eaked out’ at the thought that he might be gay bee he had pictur of oiled-up bodybuilrs on his bedroom wall. Actor and activist Gee Takei recently spoke out about why he me out as gay at age 68 ― and how former California Gov.

GEE TAKEI REVEALS HE CAME OUT AS GAY BEE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER REJECTED GAY MARRIAGE BILL: ‘I WAS SO ANGRY’ AT HIM

Bee Schwarzenegger prented himself as a movie star who had worked and was iends wh gays and lbians, many of whom voted for him, but then vetoed that bill, ” Takei said. “I was so angry that I spoke to the prs for the first time as a gay man at the age of 68. “I learned at a young age that you uldn’t be an openly gay actor and hope to be employed, ” Takei said.

"Arnold's mother also lled the doctor for help bee she was worried that "somethg was off" TO VIEW GALLERY© Photo: Getty ImagArnold Schwarzenegger revealed that his father ed to beat him"I don't know if mum thought I was gay, or if she jt thought there was somethg off. Gee Takei revealed a new terview wh The Stage that he publicly me out as gay 2005 out of anger over Arnold Schwarzenegger’s cisn to veto a bill that would’ve legalized gay marriage California.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: GAY PORN STAR?

Takei me out as gay California’s Frontiers magaze, and the “Star Trek” veteran had already been a relatnship wh his hband for 18 years by that time.

I learned at a young age that you uldn’t be an openly gay actor and hope to be employed. Bee Schwarzenegger prented himself as a movie star who had worked and was iends wh gays and lbians, many of whom voted for him, but then vetoed that bill.

GEE TAKEI SHAR WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT AGE 68

I was so angry that I spoke to the prs for the first time as a gay man at the age of 68. Schwarzenegger rejected a bill to legalize gay marriage that was troduced by Democratic Assemblyman Mark Leno. “I thk that gay marriage is somethg that should be between a man and a woman.

gay,. [Source]Gee Takei recently revealed that he me out as gay rponse to former California Governer Arnold Schwarzenegger’s cisn to veto the bill that legalized same-sex marriage the state almost two s an terview wh the Brish weekly newspaper The Stage, the 85-year-old “Star Trek” actor explaed that he had to rema closeted while workg the movie dtry as was difficult to fd employment for an openly gay and Asian Amerin man at that time.

PUMPG IRON: EXCLIVE, RARELY SEEN PHOTOS AND STORI OF THE FILM THAT BUILT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGERCELEBRATE THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MCLE-BOUND DOCUDRAMA THAT STARTED ALL.BY JOANNA ROBSONJUNE 16, 2017SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPUMPG IRON: 20 RARELY SEEN PHOTOS OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER1 / 20CHEVRONCHEVRON© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.ARNOLD ALWAYS WORKED ON HIS POS AND THOUGHT ABOUT PETG. HERE HE IS PRACTICG ON THE ROOF OF HIS NDO. SANTA MONI, CALIFORNIA, 1973.IT’S BEEN 40 YEARS SCE THE GLISTENG, FLEXG BICEPS OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, LOU FERRIGNO, AND THE RT OF THE GIANTS OF THE PROFSNAL BODYBUILDG SCENE BURST TO THE POP CULTURE NVERSATN VIA DIRECTOR GEE BUTLER’S DOCUDRAMA PUMPG IRON. THE FILM WAS THE ULTIMATE UNRDOG STORY, NOT BEE OF THE WAY THE PETN PLAYS OUT ON-SCREEN (SPOILER ALERT, SCHWARZENEGGER STARTS THE FILM AS A BODYBUILDG STAR AND ENDS THE FILM AN EVEN BIGGER BODYBUILDG STAR), BUT BEE OF THE GREAT LENGTHS BUTLER WENT TO TO GET MA. IN THE BURGEONG DAYS OF DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKG, NOBODY WANTED TO BACK BUTLER AND HIS PARTNER, ROBERT FRE, TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT A NICHE SPORT STARRG A HANDSOME ATRIAN WHOM NO ONE OUTSI THE BODYBUILDG WORLD HAD EVER HEARD OF.BUT BUTLER AND FRE PRSED, ON AND THE RT IS FILM HISTORY. BOTH SCHWARZENEGGER AND LOU FERRIGNO WOULD GO ON TO BEE HOEHOLD NAM, AND FOR THOSE CUR TO SEE HOW AN ATRIAN BODYBUILR ULD NQUER NOT ONLY HOLLYWOOD BUT THE WORLD OF POLICS TOO, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE NAKED AMBN, CLEVER LCULATN, AND TANIC WORK ETHIC SCHWARZENEGGER PUTS ON DISPLAY PUMPG IRON. GEE BUTLER—WHO, ALONGSI CHARL GA, SHOT THE 1974 BOOK OF THE SAME NAME—HAS SHARED SOME NDID, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS OM SCHWARZENEGGER’S PUMPG IRON DAYS LLECTED THE GALLERY ABOVE. HE’S ALSO ANSWERED A FEW OF OUR QUTNS ABOUT SOME OF THE LEGACI AND MYTHS THAT HAVE SPNG UP AROUND THE FILM THE PAST 40 YEARS. PUMPG IRON WILL PLAY AT THE FILM SOCIETY OF LLN CENTER'S WALTER REA THEATER ON AUGT 17 AS PART OF A 40TH ANNIVERSARY SERI CELEBRATG THE CEMA OF 1977.VANY FAIR: BEFORE PUMPG IRON, THERE WAS A STIGMA AROUND BODYBUILDG THAT ONLY GAY MEN PARTICIPATED THE SPORT. WAS THAT SOMETHG THE MACHISMO OF THE DOCUMENTARY AND SCHWARZENEGGER’S BEHAVR AROUND WOMEN SPECIFILLY TRIED TO ADDRS?GEE BUTLER: Y, THERE WAS A STIGMA THOSE DAYS. WE WANTED EVERYONE TO E ACROSS AS THEMSELV— AND WH ARNOLD ONT AND CENTER, THE FILM TOOK ON A CERTA CHARACTER. IT WAS CLEAR THIS WAS A TOUGH SPORT.YOU MENTN THE 2002 DOCUMENTARY RAW IRON THAT THE 1975 I.F.B.B. MR. UNIVERSE AND MR. OLYMPIA NTTS WERE THE FIRST TERRACIAL PETNS TO BE HELD SOUTH AI. PUMPG IRON DON’T REALLY TOUCH ON THAT EVEN THOUGH SERGE NUBRET OUT OF NOWHERE TO GRAB SEND PLACE BEHD SCHWARZENEGGER. WAS THERE EVER AN IA TO EXPLORE THAT ASPECT OF THE BODYBUILDG SCENE?I WAS TERTED DIVIDUAL CHARACTER; A GROUP OF GUYS G THEIR WS AND BODI TO PETE AND W. SO I WAS LS TERTED RACIAL TEGORI THAN DIVIDUALS.© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.YOU’VE SAID THAT IALLY THE IA WAS TO PRENT LOU FERRIGNO AS THE VILLA OPPOSN TO SCHWARZENEGGER’S HERO. BUT SCHWARZENEGGER HAS SAID THAT EVENTUALLY HE REALIZED THAT FERRIGNO WAS TOO “VULNERABLE” TO BE THE BAD GUY. AT WHAT POT DID YOU REALIZE THIS AS WELL?MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDLOUIE IS A TOUCHG CHARACTER. I KNEW EARLY ON THAT HE ULDN'T BE A VILLA, BUT THAT HE HAD A CENTRAL PART. LOUIE WAS PERFECT AS THE MOCK VILLA, HOWEVER. ARNOLD WORKED OUT ON THE BEACH, OUTDOORS SUNSHE, LOUIE THE GYM, THE SHADOWS—WHICH IS THE FILM, WAS SO PERFECT—LOUIE WAS BIGGER, DARKER, HE WAS EVERYTHG OPPOSE OF ARNOLD. HE ALSO GREW STATURE DURG THE NTT AND HIS TRAG. PEOPLE WHO WATCH THE MOVIE FOR THE FIRST TIME NOW ARE AMAZED TO SEE THAT ARNOLD IS NOT THE UNEQUIVOL STAR OF THE FILM.BEE FERRIGNO ULDN’T FILL THE CLASSIC VILLA ROLE, PARTWAY THROUGH THE FILM SCHWARZENEGGER STARTS PLAYG THE HEEL AND BOASTG ABOUT HIS ABILY TO MENTALLY MANIPULATE HIS PETN. HOW MUCH OF THIS WAS FABRITED FOR THE SAKE OF TELLG A GOOD STORY? SCHWARZENEGGER HAS SCE SAID WAS ALMOST ALL FABRITED.NOT TE. WE DIDN'T FABRITE SCEN THE SENSE OF VENTG SUATNS OUT OF TH AIR. WE ME UP WH SUATNS THAT WOULD DIRECTLY REVEAL CHARACTER. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT I HAD DONE THE BOOK PUMPG IRON (WH WRER CHARL GA) BEFORE THE MOVIE, AND I KNEW ARNOLD AND THE OTHERS VERY, VERY WELL. SO WE ME UP WH SUATNS THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO PLAY THEMSELV, SO TO SPEAK.© GEE BUTLER/CONTACT PRS IMAG.THERE ARE SO MANY HEARTWARMG SCEN THE PHOTOS WE’RE FEATURG HERE, LIKE SCHWARZENEGGER POSG WH THE OLR WOMEN. HOW MANY OF HIS MORE CHARMG TERACTNS WERE CUT ORR TO CREATE A CERTA NARRATIVE?I DON'T THK WE PAID ANY ATTENTN TO THAT. WE WERE FOLLOWG A DRAMATIC ACTN—THE PETN—AND SO WE HAD TO FOLLOW THAT, NOT DILUTE THAT.SCHWARZENEGGER IS REFUL TO LL THE FILM A “DOCUDRAMA” BASED ON THE HEIGHTENED DRAMATIC ELEMENTS. DO BOTHER YOU AT ALL THAT SOME PEOPLE MISTAKENLY INTIFY PUMPG IRON AS A DOCUMENTARY?MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDY, I WHDREW OM THE 1977 AMY AWARDS BEE I DID NOT THK WAS PURELY, STRICTLY A DOCUMENTARY—A DOCUMENTARY THOSE DAYS WAS MORE LIKE AN STERE HISTORY BOOK. TODAY WOULD BE DIFFERENT—CREATIVE LIBERTI ARE ROUTELY TAKEN TO GET TO THE TTH. BUT WE WERE AT THE ABSOLUTE BEGNG OF A GENRE, MAKG A KD OF NONFICTN MOVIE NOVEL.WHAT’S A SCHWARZENEGGER STORY OM THE PUMPG IRON DAYS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE PEOPLE?Y, I HAVE A GREAT ONE. ARNOLD THE OAK ED TO GET LUNCH AT THE BROWN BAGGER VENICE. HE’D S AT A TABLE WH ALL THE BIG BODY BUILRS. IT WAS MOST IMPORTANT TO ARNOLD TO GET A TAN AFTER LUNCH, SO HE’D BE AT THE BEACH SCENE, LYG ON A LTLE PATCH OF GRASS WH THE OTHER BODY BUILRS, LIKE LOU FERRIGNO AND EDDIE GUILLIANI, WHO WAS A GREAT TRICKSTER BY THE WAY. ARNOLD WALKED UP TO A U.C.L.A .CHEERLEAR AND ASKED HOW’D SHE LIKE TO POSE WH THE BT BODY BUILRS THE WORLD, AND THAT SHE SHOULD GET TO KNOW THEM. HE SAT DOWN ON THE GRASS BI HER AND PRETEND TO GO TO SLEEP, FAVORG THE U.C.L.A. CHEERLEAR OVER HIS BODY-BUILR IENDS. SUDNLY SHE WAS AWARE WE WERE FILMG. HER EY BRIGHTENED, SHE LOOKED AT HIM AND ASKED, “ARE YOU SHOOTG 16MM FILM?” ARNIE, KNOWG A LTLE ABOUT WHAT SHE WAS ASKG, SAID “Y,” TO WHICH SHE RPOND, “UH UH, WELL, I ONLY DO 35MM.”YOU HAD TO GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO GET THIS FILM FUND. YOU WERE LGHED OUT OF PCH MEETGS BUT, OF URSE, YOU HAD THE LAST LGH. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO ENURAGE STGGLG FILMMAKERS OUT THERE?ONWARD. ALWAYS ONWARD. YOU’LL N TO EVERYTHG YOU NEED, IF YOU JT KEEP MOMENTUM.JOANNA ROBSON

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