Despite being three decades since the two starred together in James Cameron’s True Lies, the easy banter between Jamie Lee Curtis and Arnold Schwarzenegger makes it seem like it was only yesterday. As Schwarzenegger spoke at Amazon’s Upfront event, Curtis came up to playfully take him off the stage. What followed was the pair giving the audience a sweet and entertaining trip down memory lane.
Jamie Lee Curtis Plants a Kiss on Former Costar Arnold Schwarzenegger in Viral Moment
It started with Schwarzenegger talking about his new Amazon film, The Man with the Bag, before he began rambling about getting tricked into speaking, and the best marketing strategies. âMarketing, and communicating to the mass, and publicity is the most important thing,â he said at the Ad-focused event (via Deadline). âYou can have the best product in the world, but if they donât know about it, you have nothing! Absolutely nothing.â
Soon, Curtis was sneaking out, pretending she was there to pull him from the stage. But as she grabbed his arm, he protested. “This is elder abuse!” he joked. Soon, both were off-script, reminiscing about True Lies.
But as the two wrapped things up and senior ad executive Alan Moss began to walk out, she yelled, “Hold on, don’t come!” She then turned to Schwarzenegger, who uttered “We’ll be back,” before the two recreated a True Lies moment with a kiss. “She still has it,” Schwarzenegger said.
She Credits ‘True Lies’ as One of the Films That Gave Her a Career
“Let me just say this because I’m here with all y’all, because of this man, I have the career I have,” the Freaky Friday actress told the audience, before explaining how significant her role as Helen in True Lies was to her acting future.
“So Jim [Cameron] writes the part for me. We shoot the movie. So we make the movie and you know, they cut it together and we finished in April, [it] came out in July. I mean it was a really fast thing,” Curtis recalled (via People). “And I remember I was at home and I got a phone call and it was James Cameron and Arnold. And Jim said to me, ‘Jamie, I’m sitting here with Arnold in my office. I’ve just shown him the movie. It’s about a married couple.’”
“And in the contract, it says Arnold Schwarzenegger in True Lies starring Jamie Lee Curtis,” she continued. “And Jim said to me on the phone, ‘I asked Arnold if I could put you above the title because it’s a movie about a marriage, and I think it would be appropriate,’ and Arnold, a figure who clearly did not have to say yes, said yes.”
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