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ARNOLD He’s back and telling it like it is

PLUS HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM KELLY & RYAN P. 2 LOOK WHO’S ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER ON THE TERMINATOR, KEEPING FIT IN HIS 70s, FATHERHOODAND NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

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e once promised us he’d be you, ‘OK, if you need to, go take a back, and now he is—as the nap now,’ like they normally do with Terminator. elderly people,” he says with a laugh. H“T e character got me into action FOCUSED ON FITNESS movies,” says Schwarzenegger, 72. “In the history of Hollywood, no one ever Whether he’s preparing to play the came here with an accent and became Terminator or not, Schwarzenegger a leading man [like that].” When is focused on staying fi t. T e former director James Cameron off ered him bodybuilding champ’s current regi- the chance to star as a cyborg assassin men involves bicycling from his L.A. back in 1984, he was in. T en producer home to a nearby Gold’s Gym, where Joel Silver cast him in Commando, and he does 45 minutes of daily strength after that he snagged training. “I go upstairs the lead in Predator. to my gym and work Blockbuster favorites “I THRIVE OFF THE out some more at night like Total Recall fol- VERY THING THAT before I have dinner,” lowed. And now, as MOST PEOPLE ARE he says. T ese days, the he promised with his AFRAID OF. ” Terminator’s muscles catchphrase from T e are fueled by a mainly Terminator 35 years ago, plant-based diet. “I’m he’s back—in Terminator: Dark Fate 70 to 80 percent off animal products,” (in theaters Nov. 1), the sixth fi lm in he says. the franchise. T is modifi cation took hold after Hopping back into the character his 2018 heart surgery, when Schwar- requires a little prep. His process zenegger’s doctor urged him to includes amping up his gym time to ditch meat and dairy and “go green, prepare for high-octane stunts and a green, green. I said, ‘Wait a minute, grueling schedule. “It’s demanding. that sounds like my environmental You shoot from 6 in the evening to speech!’ ” he jokes, harking back to his 6 in the morning, and no one is telling days as California’s progressive-minded VIA GETTY IMAGES HAN MYUNG-GU/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES; THE CHOSUNILBO JNS/MULTI-BITS FROM LEFT: COVER BY JOHN RUSSO; FEATURE

8 | OCTOBER 27, 2019 governor (2003–11). Six months into his new eating routine, his cholesterol dropped signifi cantly. But he does make an occasional diet detour. “If I’m in Austria, I still have a Wiener schnitzel, I sometimes buy ice cream and ARNOLD’S TOP MOVIES I still make my steaks,” he says. “My kids come over and say, Conan the Barbarian (1982) Schwarzenegger’s break- ‘Daddy, can you make our favorite steaks? You are the best steak through fi lm had the then-budding star playing a maker.’ ” Married from 1986 to 2011 to Maria Shriver, now 63, muscle-clad barbarian warrior on a mission to avenge the niece of John F. Kennedy, they have four children together: his parents’ deaths. There was a 1984 sequel, Conan the Destroyer, and a follow-up, The Legend of Conan, was recently Katherine, 29, Christina, 28, Patrick, 26, and Christopher, 22. announced. He’s also the father of Joseph Baena, 22, by his former house- keeper Mildred Patricia Baena, which was revealed publicly in The Terminator (1984) He plays a cyborg assas- 2011, after Shriver fi led for divorce. (T ese days, he’s dating sin sent back in time with the mission to kill Sarah Connor, whose son, John, would go on to lead Heather Milligan, a physical therapist whom he met during a humans in a future war against machines. In the past shoulder-surgery rehabilitation.) sequel, 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, he’s T roughout his life, he’s always celebrated athletics. Since back—with a twist: Instead of being a killer out to 1989, he’s been running his destroy the fi lm’s heroine, he’s now reprogrammed annual multisport Arnold to protect her son. Sports Festival, which has The Running Man (1987) Schwarzenegger is Ben Richards, an inno- expanded to include every- cent man falsely accused of a crime and sentenced to a game-show- thing from martial arts and style execution in this thriller based on a Stephen King novel. boxing to pole fi tness and Predator (1987) While hoping to save hostages arm wrestling. As of 2018, in Central America, Schwarzenegger’s Major there are festivals on fi ve “Dutch” Schaefer takes on an extraterrestrial continents. T e fi tness guru monster. Schwarzenegger with (from left) daughter works to make sure his Christina, son Patrick, ex-wife Maria Shriver Twins (1988) He stars alongside Danny DeVito, events also accommodate and daughter Katherine in 2017 who plays his long-lost and much shorter twin handicapped and disabled brother. A sequel, Triplets, set to reunite the duo, athletes. “T ey get a standing ovation bigger than the bodybuild- is currently in the works. ers or powerlifters,” he says. Kindergarten Cop (1990) The brawny Schwar- zenegger faces off against a classroom full of tiny DRIVEN TO COMPETE tykes as a police detective moonlighting as a “T ere was a time when I wanted to be the most muscular man kindergarten teacher while trying to take down a onstage and to wipe out everyone else. T ere was literally nothing drug dealer. more important than that. But when I won the last Mr. Olympia Total Recall (1990) It’s [in 1980], I said, ‘What am I doing still running out with a little 2084 and Schwarzenegger bathing suit here, oiled up?’ ” plays a construction worker T is led Schwarzenegger to commit fully to acting, continuing dreaming about vacation- with action-packed fi lms like Conan the Barbarian as well as try- ing to Mars. After visiting ing his hand in comedies like Twins and Junior. “I always thought a company that implants memories of a trip to the there was a funny side to me,” he says, adding that he cherished planet in his brain, he fi nds having iconic comedian Milton Berle as a mentor. himself caught up in a dan- Schwarzenegger also discovered the power of doing good. In gerous conspiracy. 1990, he became the chairman of the President’s Council on Phys- ical Fitness and Sports, working alongside President George H.W. True Lies (1994) He’s a Bush, and began hobnobbing with the Kennedy family through his secret agent trying to save the world from a nuclear at- relationship with Shriver. “All of a sudden, helping people became tack and repair his marriage the new thing,” he says of setting his sights on procuring health to Helen, played by Jamie and fi tness programs in schools. “T at gave me the appetite to run Lee Curtis. CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: AMANDA EDWARDS/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES; EVERETT; ©ORION PICTURES CORPORATION/EVERETT; ©UNIVERSAL PICTURES/EVERETT; © 20TH CENTURY FOX FILM CORP./EVERETT © 20TH CENTURY ©UNIVERSAL FOX FILM PICTURES/EVERETT; CORP./EVERETT AMANDA ©ORION EDWARDS/WIREIMAGE/GETTY PICTURESCLOCKWISE CORPORATION/EVERETT; IMAGES; FROM LEFT: EVERETT; continued on page 10

OCTOBER 27, 2019 | 9 from page 9 for governor.” Following his gov- moviemaking site outside Los HANGING WITH ernorship, “the next best thing was Angeles, where he rewards local not available,” says Schwarzeneg- kids who’ve done well in school ger, who as an immigrant cannot with tank rides. It’s a skill he ARNOLD run for the U.S. presidency. Would learned when he was 18 and serv- Watching “Succession. Billions. Narcos was my favorite.” he, if the law did not prevent him? ing in the Austrian army, steering Listening “Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers, Garth Brooks.” “Yeah, of course,” he says. “I would his own M47 Patton. Bingeing “Ice cream, any kind of dessert. My weakness is have run a long time ago. I always He credits his lust for risk- sugar.” shoot for the top!” taking as the secret to his endless Nicest thing you do for yourself “Every so often, I get a T ere is no such thing as a typi- drive. “I thrive off the very thing pedicure and a manicure.” cal day in his busy world. “I can go that most people are afraid of,” A typical meal? “In the morning, I always have oatmeal, for from doing an interview to shoot- he says. “I’ll always shoot for the past 30 years. Then at lunch, usually I get a veggie burger ing a 50-person action sequence, the stars. It’s fun when you pick or some kind of a salad. And then for dinner, usually vegetable and a week later I’m at the USC some big goal and a lot of risk soup because I don’t like to go to bed with a full stomach.” Schwarzenegger Institute for is involved and then you have to Sunday routine “A motorcycle State and Global Policy”—a joint fi gure it out. T at’s what makes ride in the morning. After initiative he developed with the life interesting.” that, we go to church, then University of Southern California go on a regular bike ride and have a good lunch. If that works to advance post-par- SHOOTING FOR THE TOP I’m at home, then I just tisanship—“doing a lecture about Schwarzenegger is proud to have hang out with the kids redistricting reform or creating a several other action heroes in his by the pool and play green future.” Sometimes he heads inner circle, including Clint East- around.” to the Melody Ranch, a former continued on page 12 CLOCKWISE FRO TOP LEFT: HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES; ISTOCK; JEAN BAPTISTE LACROIX/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES HULTON CLOCKWISE FRO TOP LEFT: from page 10 wood, who at 89 still schools him on the ski slopes, and his former rival, Sylvester Stallone, with whom he publicly sparred in the ’80s. “Stallone and I had a major battle of who is more ripped,

“WHEN I WON THE LAST MR. OLYMPIA, I SAID, ‘WHAT AM I DOING STILL RUNNING OUT WITH A LITTLE BATHING SUIT HERE, OILED UP?’ ” who has more muscles, who killed more people in the movies, who uses bigger guns and bigger and more eff ective knives,” he says. When the former adversar- ies became pals, they buried the hatchet by exchanging weapons from their fi lms. “He gave me a knife from Rambo and I gave him a knife from Commando. We were laughing about how stupid [the rivalry] was—but also how necessary, because it helped me perform better; I tried to outdo him and I helped him try to outdo me.” T is year, the pair exchanged whimsical memes that fans cre- ated on their behalf. “I sent him a picture of me being shorter than him—Danny DeVito short— and another one of me hold- ing his decapitated head in my hand,” he says. Schwarzenegger much preferred the latter, as it depicted him coming out on top. “I always have to be the best,” he says with a grin.

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