Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed that OJ Simpson was originally cast as The Terminator, until director James Cameron decided he wasn’t believable as “a killing machine”.
Speaking to The Independent alongside Sarah Connor actor Linda Hamilton, Schwarzenegger said that he wasn’t the first choice for the role, which he returns to for the fifth time in this week’s Terminator: Dark Fate.
Terminator: Dark Fate, which is directed by Deadpool’s Tim Miller and based on a story co-written by James Cameron, reunites Hamilton and Schwarzenegger for the first time since 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
“It was actually OJ Simpson that was the first cast Terminator,” he said.