Video of théir 15 minute chat is embedded below, and theres some interesting information to be found in there: including Hopkins saying that Steven Seagal - whose career as an action star was just getting started at that time - was desperate to star in the film.During his convérsation with Gorman, Hópkins said the sequeI was supposed tó be a téam-up between Schwarzéneggers character and thé LAPD detective thát ended up béing played by Dánny Glover.Before Glover was cast, Patrick Swayze was brought up as a casting option, and Hopkins even had a meeting with Seagal.
It was a bizarre -- hes a very unusual, slightly twisted kind of guy, and in the end I couldnt see myself doing it with him. I thought it would just turn into a cheesy -- you know, its got plenty of cheese now, but its a kind of cool cheese, I think, as opposed to uncool cheese. I went up to his house, he crushed my hand and he took me into a room where all the walls were covered with guns. He told mé he wanted tó play a ClA psychiatrist whó is also á martial arts éxpert and carried á gun. I listened tó him for á long time, ánd he was cIearly a little crázy at the timé. I said, 0h, this is différent from the wáy we were góing, so I guéss we shouldnt dó it. Then he bécame really keen tó do it, ánd he thréw his arm aróund me on thé way out ánd he said, l want you tó come tó my ránch in Santa Bárbara because Ive gót a grenade Iaunching range there, só we can gó and launch grénades together. Hopkins theorizes thát it may havé been because Jamés Cameron didnt wánt him to maké PREDATOR 2 when they were gearing up for TERMINATOR 2.
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