Arnold Schwarzenegger Talks 'Twins' Sequel and Why The Actor Almost Turned Down 'The Terminator'

Arnold Schwarzenegger recently appeared on The Howard Stern Show, the Terminator and Governor of California's last appearance in the show was in 2003. Governor Schwarzenegger talked about becoming the Terminator again, his personal life, and governing the great state of California. 

Schwarzenegger confirmed that he's on board for the sequel of his 1988 comedy movie Twins, which also starred Danny DeVito as his unlikely twin brother. The sequel  in the works will be entitled 'Triplets' with Eddie Murphy to add up as the third brother.

Schwarzenegger explained to Stern about the sequel's third brother Eddie Murphy .The actor stated:"Now we are talking about a sequel, where we find out at the funeral of our mother, when we read the will, that there's three of us." Schwarzenegger also said, "Eddie Murphy loves the idea," as Schwarzenegger gushed: "Danny DeVito and I had lunch with Eddie Murphy over at my house, and talked about the thing, and we were laughing and laughing the whole meal through because it was such a funny idea."

According to the Terminator, they are ready to make the sequel, but the plot needs some fine-tuning and they are waiting for inputs of screenwriters  Josh Gad and Ryan Dixon.

Also during Schwarzenegger's conversation with Stern, the actor remembered his biggest '80s hits. The original Terminator said that when director James Cameron first offered him to be the cyborg assassin he rejected it, as Schwarzenegger wanted to play human hero Kyle Reese.

The conversation that took place at that time betweem them was: "I said, 'No no no Jim. I counted the amount of lines this guy says. It's 27 lines. In Conan [the Barbarian] I had 128 lines. So I'm not going to go backwards,'" Schwarzenegger recalled. "I said... I want to be the leading man. Cameron said, 'I will make this guy the leading man! It's called The Terminator! I will shoot it from below up, you will look heroic. And don't worry about killing all those people - because you're a machine. No one is going to blame Arnold.'"

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