Terminator 2: Judgment Day AKA T2 was featured extensively in the press throughout the decade. The excellent Starlog Magazine was one of those publications that kept track of T2 related things (such as, for example, comic books or T2 3D and more). In mid 1996, Starlog featured an insert of Robert Patrick as the T-1000 in the corner of its #226 issue, as they caught up with the liquid metal killer few years after he became a pop culture/movie icon.
The T-1000 is also featured on the content page, and the photo chosen wasn't and still isn't in wide circulation
The actual interview in the form of an article spreads on two pages and is written by Starlog's prime T2 correspondent, Marc Shapiro. It's a great and honest interview, in which Robert Patrick talks about the good and the less positive side of playing an iconic character. By no means is he ungrateful or comes out as such, just the opposite, he always appreciated how he became an image of the iconic T-1000 and he does recognize that the character has became an icon. However, since the T-1000 was an artificial murderous, shapeshifting mass, and Robert's perfectly embodied it, the role did not show how he can play human characters.
He talks about being picky right after T2, even thought he was getting a lot of profitable offers, many saw him as only the T-1000. Patrick describes the struggle to finally land a human role in Fire in the Sky to prove himself and then weaving through best of the worst of his offers to sustain his career at some point. This article was of course written before he starred in X-Files but when he was shooting Streaptease with Demi Moore.
Overall an interesting interview/article showing a double sided nature of having a huge , iconic role - it will cement you forever as an icon, but it does make it harder to have more varied roles later on. Still, at the end, relatively not that many can say they moved to the pantheon of movie icons, and its a well deserved privilege that Robert Patrick appreciates to this day
