
Special Effects guru Stan Winston and his crew studied hours of nuclear test footage, in order to make Sarah Connor's "nuclear nightmare" scene as real as possible. Seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger standing in the bar dressed only in boxer shorts, she wondered aloud what was going on, only for Schwarzenegger to reply that it was male stripper night. In the audio commentary, James Cameron says that not only was the biker bar scene filmed across the street from where LAPD officers beat up Rodney King, but that they were filming the night of the beating.Ī female passer-by actually wandered onto the biker bar set thinking it was real, despite walking past all the location trucks, cameras and lights. Shooting the gates also took weeks of practice because he had to also act cool while doing it. He couldn't dart his eyes either because it would have ruined the shot.

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He tore the skin from his fingers and hand many times before he mastered it and he achieved this while trying to act and control a Harley at the same time as James Cameron told him where to look. Until Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), this was the only sequel to win an Academy Award when the previous installment(s) received no nomination.įor the storm drain sequence, Arnold Schwarzenegger was in pain because, since he couldn't wear a glove while cocking the gun, his fingers would get stuck in the mechanism. His voice began to break, and had to be pitched to one level in post-production. He is clearly much younger in the desert, for instance, than in other scenes.

Production took sufficiently long, that Edward Furlong visibly aged during the shoot.
