Fantastic : the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger by Leamer Laurence

Author:Leamer, Laurence
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Schwarzenegger, Arnold, Governors, Celebrities, Actors, Bodybuilders, Austrian Americans
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
Published: 2005-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Total Recall Qo^x. about $73 million, then one of the most expensive films of all time. Much of the money went into elaborate sets and special effects in a film that has one startling action sequence after another. Arnold had respect for the creative contributions of everyone on this huge, complex project, and he did not impose his will arbitrarily or unnecessarily. If you happened to have walked onto the set during moments of levity, you might have assumed that Arnold was a boyishly nonchalant actor unconcerned with anything beyond his trailer and the camera. You would have had no idea that he was the central figure on Total Recall '\n every^ sense, missing nothing of consequence but asserting himself only on crucial matters.

Arnold was always under control even when he seemed not to be. For a man who considered impatience his worst weakness, he seemed almost casual on the set. His endless joshing, pinching of women, and bawdy humor were in part a means to loosen things up, to lance the inevitable tension of weeks on a set, and to create an atmosphere in which a film could be created to advance Arnold's fortunes.

\'erhoeven has a reputation as a brilliant, difficult man who makes few friends and leaves many enemies, and is devoid of false praise. He saw what Arnold was doing and ended up an unqualified admirer. "What impressed me was his abilirv' to always be aware of other people and to be really listening to them, always ready to say, 'Okay, what can be done then even if it's not possible, what can be done.^'" said the director. "How he would really bring people together. How we would sit together and say, 'Come on, guys, now let's go back to the beginning.' How he would handle the Mexican crew. And how he would be together in parties and in his speeches basically would bring people together, give them attention and embrace them in his kind of laconic and funny way. I mean, I've never seen that. So, basically for me, it was like, 'Wow, I wish I could do all that.""

Part of the very conduct that Verhoeven and his peers thought so positive and so bonding was precisely what irritated and offended others. On the set Arnold amused himself by teasing a stuntwoman about the peculiar tilt of her breasts and by goading another woman to drink so much tequila that she threw up. One day he went to the home of the famous sculptor Francisco Zuniga. Another guest recalled in an incident chronicled by Connie Bruck in The New Yorkerhow Arnold was seated next to a young woman who was dating the sculptor's son. "You know," he said as he touched the woman's arm, "the thing I love about Mexican women is how furr\' their pussies are." Such incidents were generally Arnold's schoolboy idea of fun, but in a world where an emerging political correctness sometimes trumped pleasure and spontaneity, Arnold was taking untoward risks with his reputation.

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