Arnold Schwarzenegger encourages fans to embrace their worst impressions of him. The iconic bodybuilder turned actor, turned governor of California is best known for his massive stature and his Austrian accent. The actor has played a variety of iconic characters throughout his career, especially in the Terminator franchise where he plays the android assassin, who is sent back to the past first to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) to prevent her future son John from becoming a major resistance leader before returning in future Terminator films to be more of a protector figure defending John Connor from various threats.
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Recently, the True Lies star began a daily newsletter called The Pump Daily designed to encourage users on their own fitness journeys. One such subscriber thanked him for the newsletter, saying that he can’t help reading the newsletter in Arnold’s voice, though it’s “a bad impersonation.” Schwarzenegger quote tweeted the comment, encouraging the behavior by saying “The worse the impersonation, the better.” Check out the full post below:
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Hollywood Legacy Explained

One of the reasons that Schwarzenegger remains such an iconic star in the Hollywood firmament despite not appearing in as many films in the modern era is the fact that he managed to apply his wholly unique body and voice to a variety of versatile genres. While most of the movies he worked in slotted into the action genre in one way or another, there are many different versions of Schwarzenegger that audiences have received over the years. Having become Mr. Universe at age 20, his Hollywood career began quietly with films meant to capture his impressive musculature including 1970’s Hercules in New York.
However, his acting career wouldn’t begin to take off in earnest until the 1980s and his appearance as the title character in 1982’s Conan the Barbarian and 1984’s The Terminator. This kicked off a slew of films that would blend action with sci-fi or fantasy elements, including the Terminator sequels, 1985’s Red Sonja, and the original 1987 Predator. Toward the mid-1980s he began to appear in more straightforward action films like 1985’s Commando, 1986’s Raw Deal, and 1988’s Red Heat. It was in these films that he more firmly established his action persona as a brutish fighter who is nonetheless always prepared with a quip as soon as he dispatches his latest victim.
However, almost as soon as Arnold Schwarzenegger established that persona, he branched out even more. He began to appear in comedy films that subverted his persona, including Kindergarten Cop and The Last Action Hero, leaving room for him to appear in pure comedies like Twins and the holiday classic Jingle All the Way. However, he also found his way into even more iconic franchises with his roles as Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin and Trench in the Expendables franchise, cementing his iconic status forever.
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