It doesn’t matter what Arnold Schwarzenegger says, James Cameron maintains that he by no means felt that O.J. Simpson ought to star in “The Terminator,” and in 2023, the Oscar-winning director reiterated this throughout an interview with Chris Wallace on the journalist’s present “Who’s Speaking to Chris Wallace?” In response to a report on the episode in Selection, Cameron mentioned, “Very early on, a extremely positioned particular person at one of many two studios that funded that movie had an excellent concept and known as me up and mentioned, ‘Are you sitting down?’ I mentioned, ‘Effectively, no, I am not.’ He mentioned, ‘Are you sitting? O.J. Simpson for the Terminator!’ I mentioned, ‘I really assume that is a foul concept.’ It did not go anyplace.”
Not solely that, however Cameron says that Schwarzenegger’s story about receiving a portray of the Terminator that initially featured Simpson is completely faux too. (Schwarzenegger apparently claimed that in the event you scratched on the art work, you would see Simpson’s face beneath his in that very same interview with The Unbiased.) In his Los Angeles Occasions piece, Cameron mentioned, “Let me appropriate that proper now. Arnold is actually simply improper. I do know it is exhausting to think about! You do not argue with Arnold. I did not make the portray for him. I made the portray for us, for the manufacturing, of him because the Terminator. There is not any O.J. underneath that portray.”