Arnold Schwarzenegger or popularly known as the terminator is an Austrian origin American actor who played the lead role of the Terminator in the Terminator franchise. He is a former body builder, producer, and director. Here are 30 unknown facts about Arnold Schwarzenegger –
- Arnold was born on 30 July 1947 to Gustav and Aurelia in Austria.
- Arnold’s Father had doubts about Arnold about being his biological son and so he preferred Arnold’s elder brother Meinhard more.
- He refused to attend his elder brother’s funeral who died in a car accident as well as his father’s funeral who died of stroke stating child abuse as the reason for his decision.
- Arnold, by 22 was a self-made millionaire, after which he appeared in his first movie.
- He had a good relationship with his mother who died some years later after his father’s death.
- He took care of his brother’s son and raised him until he helped him to immigrate to America.
- Arnold’s girlfriend Barbara Baker reported Arnold being emotionless after his father’s death and not speaking a word about his brother
- Arnold started bodybuilding at the age of 15 when his soccer coach took him to a gym, this was where Arnold chose bodybuilding over soccer.
- As he had started developing an interest in body building and had posters of oiled bodies of bodybuilders in his room which made his parents think that he was turning gay.
- After moving to America in 1968 Arnold with his friend started a bricklaying business which was a hit due to an earthquake which had occurred recently.
- Arnold started selling Body building equipment from the profit they earned by selling bricks.
- In the early days of his acting career was told that his body was too weird to be filmed.
- He was constantly told to change his name as it was too long and hard to pronounce.
- Having a very good body it was hard to find a body double for Arnold to do the stunts for him and therefore he had to do his stunts all by himself till they found suitable doubles.
- Arnold married the niece of President John F. Kennedy, who was a journalist named Maria Shriver.
- He was stripped off the Austrian citizenship due to his support for a death penalty.
- Arnold has won the most number total as of 13 Bodybuilding events in history.
- During the shooting of the Terminator Arnold practiced using guns for the whole shooting period until he was able to reload and shoot without looking at the guns.
- Arnold was Denied to dub in his own voice for the German version of the film as his Austrian accent wasn’t good enough.
- Arnold denied accepting his salary as of California’s governor as he considered he already had enough wealth from his acting career.
- He was given a whopping sum of $21,429 for every word spoken by him in the Terminator franchise.
- The ‘Schwarzenegger’ in Arnold’s name stands for ‘dark harrower of the fields’ when translated into German.
- Arnold considered John Wayne as his childhood idol.
- He was one of the first investors in the hotel ‘Planet Hollywood‘ situated in Las Vegas.
- In 1967 Arnold won the title of Mr. Universe for the first time at the age of 20 after which he went on to win the title for 3 more times.
- “The Kindergarten Cop” is Arnold’s personal favorite movie.
- Schwarzenegger once went under Genioplasty to get his jaw fixed so that it no longer jots out.
- He is the first private citizen of America who owns a Humvee which he later on modified to run on hydrogen.
- Arnold has a net estimated worth of 100$ – 200$ million.
- He holds citizenship of both U.S.A and Austria. After becoming a citizen of U.S.A he requested Austrian government to retain hi citizenship.