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Terminator and Running Man star Arnold Schwarzenegger credits part of his success to costars like Linda Hamilton and Jamie Lee Curtis
And yes, Schwarzenegger also thinks pretty highly of FUBAR costar Carrie-Anne Moss, who returns for season 2 of the actor's current Netflix action romp
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To all the internet chuds who believe action movies can't star women, Arnold Schwarzenegger would like a word.
Across his storied decades in the action movie genre, Schwarzenegger has worked with some of the most badass leading ladies in cinematic history, from Terminator's Linda Hamilton to Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. Now, while promoting another kind of pairing in Netflix's FUBAR, Schwarzenegger is going on record to say that he wouldn't have gotten to the place he did without their collaboration.
In case you don't know, FUBAR is an espionage action series that stars Schwarzenegger as a covert CIA operative whose longterm romantic partner, played by Matrix legend Carrie-Anne Moss. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter after the release of FUBAR season 2, Schwarzenegger got into his history with female action stars of Moss's calliber.
"I always say I’m not a self-made man," said the Predator and Running Man star, "I’m the product of so many other talented people around me that helped make me shine, and one of them is how fortunate I have been to have so many female heroes around me like Linda Hamilton and Jamie Lee Curtis. If we hadn’t had Jamie Lee Curtis, True Lies does not work. She was the right person at the right time, the right dynamic."
Schwarzenegger goes on to say that, some decades after both of the films he costarred with Hamilton and Curtis came out, he still finds himself owing to the female leads in the projects he works on.
"That’s the same thing here," says Schwarzenegger of FUBAR and Moss's collaboration, "The people really loved the dynamic between me and Monica in season one, and when we started showing people FUBAR 2, they really loved the dynamic between me and Carrie. I do not take any credit. It was the writers’ idea and Netflix’s idea. But I just think it’s so important to have the right female lead."
FUBAR season 2 is streaming on Netflix now.
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