THE PRODUCTION CREATED AN ENTIRE STREET FOR ONE SCENE … She was replaced by Claire Danes a month into shooting. JOHN CONNOR’S COMPANION, KATE BREWSTER, WAS ORIGINALLY PLAYED BY KATE BUSH. Schwarzenegger-who was 56 when T3 was released-worked out three hours a day for three months before shooting began to bulk up his Terminator physique. She also trained with mime coach Thorsten Heinze, a long-time collaborator of world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, to create the robotic villain’s movements. Loken put on over 15 pounds of muscle to portray the T-X. LOKEN HAD A UNIQUE AUDITIONīecause she rarely speaks in the film and must act as if she were a robot, the majority of Loken’s audition to play the T-X consisted of her walking down a hallway, stopping, and turning to shoot a threatening look at the casting directors. They looked at a whopping 10,000 actresses before finding Kristanna Loken.
THE FILMMAKERS HAD A TOUGH TIME FINDING AN ACTRESS TO PLAY T-X THE SCRIPT WAS KEPT UNDER WRAPSĪctor Nick Stahl wasn’t given the complete script before he auditioned. THERE WERE A LOT OF COSTUME CHANGESĭespite the fact that Schwarzenegger appears in the iconic leather-clad getup as The Terminator, there were five separate wardrobe prototypes made for the T-X before her final red leather costume was OK’d by Mostow. Three were built for the production it took a team of five off-screen puppeteers to operate each one-ton robot. And though there are CG shots of the Terminators in the film, all of the T-1 robots were fully functioning robots.
THE MOVIE USED LOTS OF PRACTICAL EFFECTS.Įffects artist Stan Winston and his studio, which created the Terminators in the first two movies, returned for T3 the special effects house designed the new T-X skeleton for the movie. It was kind of disposable, so I said no thank you.” 4. “She died halfway through and there was no time to mourn her. “I knew my character arc was so complete in the first two, and in the third one it was a negligible character,” she told MTV News. Hamilton, meanwhile, was offered a part in T3 to reprise her role as Sarah Connor, but she declined. Director Jonathan Mostow took over for Cameron. JAMES CAMERON AND LINDA HAMILTON DIDN’T RETURNĬameron, who wrote and directed the first two movies, opted out of participating in the third entry he felt he had told the entire story he wanted to tell with these characters.
On top of that, Arnold also received 20 percent of gross receipts on ticket sales, DVDs, TV rights, game licensing, and in-flight movie licensing on the movie worldwide. His contract stipulated that in order to reprise his role as The Terminator, $1.5 million of the budget should be set aside for private jets, a fully-equipped gym, deluxe hotel suites, limousines, and personal bodyguards for his personal benefit at all times during production. Īrnold Schwarzenegger was paid $29.25 million to star in T3. It’s judgment day all over again! Here are some facts you may not have known about Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.