Here is a very rare interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger promoting The Terminator in a now obscure Starblazer Magazine from January 1985. I love the fact that Arnold was giving interviews all over the place to promote the film, and was accessible to small, science fiction oriented magazines.
It's a very interesting interview, although it's another instance where Arnold gets the facts about the movie wrong, like saying that the Terminator comes from 2035. Arnold is very candid here, and talks about his favorite comic book characters (Tarzan among them) and that he doesn't actually like Star Wars or movies with spaceships.
The most interesting part is him talking about shooting in eerie locations, such as the factory that appears at the end of the movie, and the sleazy hotel where the Terminator repairs itself. Arnold says it was actually full of hookers and junkies! He ends the interview saying he hopes to work with Jim Cameron again.
Also, worth noting is that the magazine finds and writes about similarities between the movie and two Outer Limits episodes, something that at the time had yet to cause a headache for Cameron, but never calls it plagiarism, just treats it as influence. But one must remember, there weren't many Time Traveling movies at the time, so only this old show came to mind while thinking about it (the time travel/paradoxes)
The photos in this magazine are outstanding. There are few that often appeared in publications at the time, but there are plenty that were never seen before or after, and can't even be found online nowadays. And as the icing on the cake, they even printed Jim Cameron's Terminator painting on a full page. They also printed a photo of Deckard from Blade Runner, because that film was about the only point of reference while thinking of artificial humans.
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