Seoul: 72-year old Arnold Schwarzenegger told a press conference here that he was ready to dive back into action as T-800 who has been living among humans, for Tim Miller's Terminator: Dark Fate.
"I really don't feel my age," he told reporters, October 21.
"I think it is because I train all the time. I train every day, so I'm kind of ready for a movie like that. But I do kind of prepare myself for months in advance. And I work with the stunt department, with the stunt co-ordinators, and I practice the different stunts because I believe in reps, reps, reps."
The star was joined in Seoul by Dark Fate co-stars Natalia Reyes, Mackenzie Davis, Gabriel Luna and Linda Hamilton - who reprises her role as Sarah Connor, the original target in The Terminator.
The new movie reunites Hamilton and Schwarzenegger onscreen for the first time since 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
"Well, it was a fantastic moment to see Arnold again. We had not really spoken for too many years, but we had forged a great friendship in our earlier incarnations as Sarah and the T-800, and really just sort of lost touch when he became the governor and, you know, just - he was awfully busy," Hamilton said, referring to her co-star's time as Governor of California, from 2003-2011.
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"So on set when we were there and in our costumes, I think it was a very natural, organic place that, you know, we just fell right back into it."
Sarah Conner, hunted before she became pregnant with future rebel leader John Connor in Jim Cameron's 1984 hit, stopped self-aware machines from taking over the world in his sci-fi sequel.
But in Dark Fate, a new target, Dani (Natalia Reyes), is being chased down by a highly advanced Rev-9 Terminator (Gabriel Luna).
She is offered protection by an enhanced soldier from the future, played by Mackenzie Davis, who reluctantly teams up with Connor.
Director Tim Miller (Deadpool) says to have a trio of women fighting off the famous killer machines is a natural progression for the franchise.
"I think the prominence of women in 'Terminator' movies was there from the beginning. I think the first movie was about Sarah Connor. I think the second movie was about Sarah Connor. You could argue that perhaps it was focused with John, but John really was about what he became and it was about Sarah protecting him. And so to me, I forget all the other films - no offence, Arnold - and then this film really was going to continue that focus on Sarah," he explains.
"I think the story comes out of the decisions that Sarah made and it was really continuing her journey. Now, I think it is natural that what she did at the end of 'Terminator 2' to change the future and she has to deal with that new future, which means additional characters that come into the franchise that weren't there before. It wasn't like a plan, it was more like the evolution of the story that had been started already."
Co-produced by Jim Cameron, Terminator: Dark Fate is released in South Korea on 30 October.
With inputs from APTN
