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When Cameron saw the puppet being pummelled, he said it looked too fake. For the scene where the T-1000 bashes in the T-800's head with a steel girder, Stan Winston's character team had made a flexible puppet head out of rubber. This proved difficult, so they sprayed some adhesive on the table – when the mercury met this, it stopped in its tracks, creating the desired effect.Ħ. They tried putting the mercury blobs on a table on which they had created a dipped center. When the T-1000 freezes in liquid nitrogen and is blown apart by the T-800, the effects team struggled to create the illusion that the blobs were autonomously rejoining to form a whole robot. To simulate the effect of molten steel, the team used a mixture of oil, powdered sugar, and water.ħ. Despite the huge amounts of molten steel supposedly there, the temperature in the building was actually a mere 42 ° F (5☌).Ĩ. In the climactic scene set in a steel mill, the actors found it difficult to imagine that they were boiling. A 2015 piece in Wired reveals that when the T-1000 passes through the metal bars of a gate in the psychiatric institution, the sound effect was that of dog food coming out of a can.ĩ. Ridiculously, this is also true of Linda Hamilton, who played Sarah Connor - she has an identical twin named Leslie, who plays Connor when the T-1000 is impersonating her. The security guard is played by identical twin brothers Don Stanton and Dan Stanton.ġ1. When the T-1000 impersonates a security guard in the psychiatric institution that Sarah Connor is in, there is no digital trickery when we see two security guards simultaneously. When the T-1000 is shot, and his metal body appears to burst open, the effect is achieved without CGI: a spring-loaded mylar prop in the shape of a flower would pop open, operated by remote control.ġ2.

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A movie bloopers compilation for the film points out that if the T-1000 had inhabited the body of an LAPD cop and failed to return the stolen police car, his colleagues would have organized some search for him. To play the T-1000, Patrick told Empire’s podcast that he decided with Cameron that he wouldn't blink, and that when he ran, he would breathe through his nose, not his mouth. “Let him think he just thought of it,” Wisher said.ġ5. Wisher checked in on the edit a year or so later, and Cameron wanted to show him an idea he had had: he had put “Bad to the Bone” in exactly the place that Wisher had suggested. Wisher suggested to Cameron that when the camera pans up on Schwarzenegger after putting on the biker's clothes, “Bad to the Bone” should begin playing. The Corral Bar, the biker bar in which Schwarzenegger famously says, “I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle,” is now a library called the Lake View Terrace Library, according to a video made by Paramount in 2019.ġ6. This was fortunate for the director, who saw him as a villain anyway.Įdward Furlong plays a young John Connor. When Schwarzenegger met Cameron, he told him that he didn't want to be the hero. Co-writer William Wisher told the Script Apart podcast that in the build-up to the original Terminator, the studio had wanted Arnold to play Kyle Reese, The Terminator's protagonist. Schwarzenegger returned to reprise his role, but in Terminator 2, he becomes a hero, a robot with something approaching a conscience. He abandoned this idea because, in the 1980s, he had no idea how it would be achieved technically but also because he knew that John Carpenter was making The Thing, and he was worried his idea might be too similar.Ģ7. In a junket at the time, James Cameron said that in his original treatment for The Terminator, he described a liquid metal robot from the future that could disguise itself as objects like sidewalks and vending machines - a major characteristic of the T-1000, Terminator 2's villain. Furlong turned out to be incredibly well suited to the part of a rebellious kid living with foster parents because, he said in a 2020 podcast interview, he had run away from home and was living with his aunt and uncle.Ģ8. When he acted in a test scene with Linda Hamilton, who played his mother, he says that he got bashful and “almost got written off the list.” At the insistence of the casting director Mali Finn, Furlong worked with an acting coach, came back, and managed to get the role despite still feeling nervous.Ģ9. Edward Furlong, who plays John Connor in his first screen role, nearly didn't get the part.

Arnold Schwarzenegger returns in T2, this time as a hero.

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