![]() He talks about that in life, too.Ĭhilcott: He’s revealing who he is by being that way. He talks about forced reps and you don’t start counting reps until it’s hard and painful. He’s not a guy who gets down or depressed. It wasn’t because he was trying to avoid it, it’s just not how he’s wired. Hughes: The challenge with Arnold is that he doesn’t look at struggle as struggle. He is somewhat reflective about his affair and the end of his marriage but less so about other topics, ranging from his heart surgery to movies like “Batman & Robin,” which he counted among his successes. He took 100% accountability he made no excuses. If you love it, it’s probably not good.” He understood from the get-go. Hughes: I said to him, “For this to resonate with people, you don’t have to love it, you just have to respect it. In Netflix’s ‘Arnold,’ Arnold Schwarzenegger apologizes for the the groping scandal that The Times reported in 2003 and how he told Maria Shriver about his affair. Television Schwarzenegger owns up to ‘failures,’ apologizes for affair and groping scandal He may not agree, but he opens his heart and mind and he may change his mind. I’ve seen him do it in real time with me. One talent I wasn’t aware of is his willingness to hear the other person’s side of things. That third episode about his political career was the reason why I did the film. He’s a great character so I knew it would be a rich story. Also, I was struck by how Arnold has dealt with challenges after the first 30 years of his career were just win, win, win.Īnd “Conan the Barbarian” blew me and my brother away when we were 9 or 10, so I was a fan of his films, but when I found out he was a Republican I had mixed feelings about him. Hughes: It’s an incredible journey and the ultimate immigrant story. The interviews have been edited for length and clarity. They spoke recently in separate video interviews about making the docuseries. “Arnold” is the second docuseries that Hughes has worked on this year - he also executive produced “ Dear Mama,” a five-part series about Tupac Shakur for FX. ![]() Chilcott was a producer on the Oscar-winning film “ An Inconvenient Truth” and “Waiting for ‘Superman,’” and she most recently directed a series about the Manson family, “ Helter Skelter: An American Myth,” and the film “ Watson” about Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. It also features interviews with director James Cameron, who worked with him on the “Terminator” franchise and the action film “True Lies,” and former co-stars Danny DeVito, Linda Hamilton, Jamie Lee Curtis and Sylvester Stallone.īoth Chilcott and Allen Hughes, the executive producer of the series, have worked on several documentaries over the years. The documentary shows everything from his unbearably pumped up body in the 1970s to the endless body count of films like “Conan the Barbarian,” “Terminator” and “Commando” (and his forays into comedy, like “Twins” and “Junior”) to his achievements on environmental policy as California governor between 20. The three-part docuseries titled “ Arnold” premieres on Netflix on Wednesday and comes on the heels of his first TV show, “ FUBAR,” also for the streamer. ![]() The fact that all three are about Arnold Schwarzenegger is a reminder of just how remarkable his life story is. And then there’s a third about one of the most surprising political careers in recent decades. She directed another about one of Hollywood’s most successful action stars ever. Lesley Chilcott directed a one-hour documentary about the greatest bodybuilder in history. ![]()
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