Premiere Magazine from July 1991 featured a phenomenal and lengthy feature on Terminator 2: Judgment Day. They did as good of a job as the same month's Entertainment Weekly. It reads like a chapter in a 'Making' Of book.
Premiere interviewed James Cameron, Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger among others. The article opens with the famous story about how a drunk woman wondered into a Corral set thinking it's an open location. After that, they go over Cameron's films with him and discuss the pressure with this one. They do however, report the budget as being $88 Million as oppose to a $100 Million as most publications.
It's interesting to read about how much freedom Carolco gave directors - they had completely no interference at all, and everyone answered only to him. Only Mario Kassar had an upper hand, but he rarely visited the set. Cameron praises that great approach very much, explaining how other studios work and how much he hates business people who aren't moviemakers and storytellers to meddle with the movies.
Cameron also reiterates what he said in the Box Office Magazine the same month - that with Arnold being a hero to masses and and idol to youth, he couldn't make a movie at this time with him murdering people as it's morally wrong.
Linda discusses how hard it is working for Cameron and that he gets pretty tense, with Arnold chiming in on the subject, saying that he is completely different on the set than off. Linda had it hard not only physically, but emotionally as well. The topper of this magazine feature is that they were also on the set on the 101st day of shooting, which was Sarah's breakdown at Dyson's house. She had to repeat the scene of her inner turmoil and emotional breakdown when trying to pull the trigger on Dyson over and over again, and was doing it so many times that uncharacteristically even Arnold got hissy reportedly telling someone "I don't know why Cameron has to do this scene so many fucking times!". Apparently Linda didn't like some of her takes, as she was heard saying it "sucks" while watching a playback on video monitor. She explained that it was hard to perform the scene without the actor and the child actors there (since they were filming her closeup only, an X marked point doubled as bleeding Dyson and his family)
And the cool thing about this feature as well is that it does mention Arnold's Terminator's model designation T-800, which one would think it would be an information promoted more in science fiction mags rather than Premiere magazine, but there you go. Great feature
