<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-democrats-want-to-f-up-every-city-in-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> stopped by the Kelce brothers’ podcast and revealed that the one movie he regrets passing on during his long career in Hollywood is &#8220;The Rock.&#8221;
During the 76-year-old actor&#8217;s appearance on the &#8220;New Heights&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_L3uUKyoWE">podcast,</a> that hit YouTube on Wednesday, retired NFL star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greatest-gift-jason-kelce-celebrates-being-a-father-in-retirement-announcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Kelce</a> asked the former Gov. of California if there was any movie he passed on that he wished he had taken. (30:45)
&#8220;There was a movie called &#8216;The Rock&#8217; with Sean Connery,&#8221; Schwarzenegger replied, with the former Philadelphia Eagles star making it clear he knew it well. &#8220;So, they came to me with a script that was only 80 pages, instead of 120 which normally scripts are.&#8221;
&#8220;With a lot of handwritten scribbles in it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And they tried to explain it to me, &#8216;Oh, this is what we are going to write.&#8217; So, I said, &#8216;Look guys why don&#8217;t you just come back when it&#8217;s finished?&#8217; I said, &#8216;This is half-baked. I&#8217;m not going to make a commitment.&#8221;&#8217;
The &#8220;True Lies&#8221; star said he also had 3 other movies lined up at the same time that he had to do in the &#8220;next year and a half&#8221; so he told them he was going to be keeping busy doing that.
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The Hollywood star said they then left and it was Nicolas Cage who famously got the role in the movie alongside screen legend Connery.
&#8220;He [Cage] took it … and did a great job with it,&#8221; Schwarzenegger said. &#8220;And the movie was fantastic even though I was not in it. Nicolas Cage did a fantastic job. Sean Connery was great. The directing was great. The writing, everything was really a straight 10.&#8221;
&#8220;So, I really enjoyed the movie,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But that was one movie &#8230; I wish I would&#8217;ve taken.&#8221;
Schwarzenegger — who is known for famous roles in films like &#8220;Terminator,&#8221; &#8220;Predator,&#8221; &#8220;Commando,&#8221; &#8220;True Lies,&#8221; and &#8220;Twins&#8221;— gave his advice to the Chiefs star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/travis-kelce-speculates-on-why-people-are-so-fascinated-by-his-relationship-with-taylor-swift" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Travis Kelce</a> and his brother Jason, who he speculated were both in Hollywood shooting the podcast because they had aspirations of having a career in the entertainment business. He said only take movie roles with &#8220;well-written scripts.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m not stupid, right? There&#8217;s a reason these guys are out here together in Hollywood,” he added, as the two brothers laughed. &#8220;There&#8217;s all kinds of interviews being scheduled for movie parts. You guys have it lined up, you just don&#8217;t want to give it away right now &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re really talented, and you speak well,&#8221; the actor continued. &#8220;And you&#8217;re full of energy and you ask interesting questions and you say funny things.&#8221;

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A key part of the recently wrapped actor’s strike dealt with something on every person’s mind in 2024.
Artificial Intelligence, or AI for short.
The new Screen Actors Guild deal, which allowed stars to get back on stage again after a 118-day pause, offered protections against the rise of AI. <a href="https://ew.com/tv/actors-strike-over-whats-in-new-sag-aftra-contract/#:~:text=The%20strike%20officially%20ended%20early,in%20the%20next%20few%20weeks." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Studios can’t use the likeness</a> of an SAG actor without their consent. That holds for stars like Brad Pitt down to background performers.
That mattered. And that might not be enough to stop its use in stories large and small.
The “small” part might be the most nettlesome to Hollywood, Inc.
We’re already seeing examples of smaller projects dipping their toes in AI. Yes, they’re drawing fire for their actions, but it likely won’t stop others from doing the same.
The new horror film “Late Night with the Devil” offers a wry spin on the classic talk-show format. David Dastmalchian (“Ant-Man”) stars as a ‘70s-era host so eager for ratings that he invites a woman allegedly possessed by the devil on his show.
The low-budget film leaned on AI to create images seen in the final product. The backlash proved immediate, especially after <a href="https://screenrant.com/late-night-with-the-devil-movie-box-office-666-explained/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Late Night” overperformed at the box office.</a>
Directors Cameron and Colin Cairnes, who reportedly finished the film <a href="https://theweek.com/late-night-with-the-devil-ai-art-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">before the strike’s settlement</a>, shared a statement on their creative decision to Variety in response.
“In conjunction with our amazing graphics and production design team, all of whom worked tirelessly to give this film the 70s aesthetic we had always imagined, we experimented with AI for three still images which we edited further and ultimately appear as very brief interstitials in the film.”
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Veteran performer Sara Poyzer of “Mamma Mia!” musical fame, shared a sour note on social media saying she was recently replaced by AI for a vocal performance. The note featured part of an email announcing who she lost a gig to:
“We have had the approval from the BBC to use the AI generated voice so we won’t need Sara anymore.”
The head of the BBC said the broadcasting giant will use AI <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/bbc-reform-truth-british-storytelling-ai-partnerships-tim-davie-1235856342/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“on our terms”</a> moving forward.
The fear is real in more ways than one.
Creators worry about professional blowback from any attempt to use AI on their projects. The industry understands just how helpful AI can be in certain areas, especially now given Hollywood is eager to cut costs thanks to a wobbly economy and streaming platform fiscal woes.
Indie filmmakers are eager to embrace any cost-cutting measures to get their stories made. When found-footage horror exploded following the release of 1999’s “The Blair Witch Project,” studios leaned aggressively on the gimmick to dramatically lower production costs.
That will likely happen, sooner or later, with AI.
That’s precisely what an artist working with Loor TV has in mind. The new streaming channel, which promises Christian storytelling with an edge, is behind a new show called “Fleur De Lis” by Ethan Hill. The show <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7176243991917522946/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">employs AI tech</a> to render both the animated show’s backgrounds and character voices.
“AI is an aid to this show, not the creator of the show. Five episodes in and the rough around the edges production and janky AI has become part of its charm. Much like construction paper and South Park &#8230;. Ethan is very cautious that AI carefully balanced as a tool, not the show runner,” Loor TV CEO Marcus Pittman shared on his LinkedIn account.
The cost? Pittman said about $200 per episode. He added the show’s creator hopes to move away from AI once the project gains financial flexibility.
YouTube creators also have less reason to avoid AI technology to make viral-friendly videos. Consider the many “deep fake” celebrity clips where computers seamlessly switch out a performer’s face for a more recognizable star.
This video of “Arnold Schwarzenegger” singing a tune from “The Sound of Music” dressed as a nun is a perfect example. It sounds remarkably like the ‘80s action superstar, and it looks as if the clip’s creator snatched him straight from the Reagan era and threw a nun’s habit on him. Watch:
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The clip generated more than 16K views in just two days.
Many influencers and creators aren’t bound by SAG rules. They just want content and the clicks those videos bring. Technological barriers have been dropping long before the rise of AI, allowing indie creators to compete with established brands. Consider Sam the Cooking Guy’s YouTube flock (3.68M subscribers) trumps The Food Network’s audience (2.5M subscribers).
Adding AI tools to the mix will further dissolve the barriers between the two sides.
AI may be the greatest tool indie filmmakers, who squeeze every penny possible to complete their visions, ever imagined. That’s especially true for creators locked out of the mainstream.
We’ve seen a flood of Right-leaning documentaries in recent years, sharing stories that veteran directors wouldn’t touch. They lack the publicity engines afforded to studio artists, from marketing teams to news outlets happy to spread the word about them.
Budgets are understandably low, too.
Throw some AI magic into the mix, and suddenly a lo-fi documentary can compete with anything Michael Moore has to offer.
That might be the scariest thing of all for progressive Hollywood.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arnold-schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> said he recently underwent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/medical">surgery</a> to have a pacemaker implanted, then made a joke about it.
“Last Monday, I had surgery to become a little bit more of a machine: I got a pacemaker,” he said on a new episode of his “Arnold’s Pump Club” <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/132-arnolds-pacemaker/id1680075779?i=1000650347490">podcast</a>.
“First of all, I want you to know I’m doing great! I had my surgery on Monday, and by Friday, I was already at a big environmental event with my friend and fellow fitness crusader Jane Fonda,” Schwarzenegger continued. “Nobody would ever have thought I started the week with a surgery.”
“I want to thank my whole team at the Cleveland Clinic. All of the doctors and nurses took amazing care of me and made the surgery as painless as possible,” he added.
The A-list <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">actor</a> and former Republican governor of California had undergone three previous open heart surgeries. In 1997, Schwarzenegger had his pulmonic valve and aortic valve replaced, per <a href="https://people.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-76-underwent-surgery-for-a-pacemaker-8619970">People</a>. He had both of those new parts replaced with subsequent surgeries in 2018 and 2020. The scar tissue has caused him to have an irregular heartbeat, he said.
“I stayed in touch with my medical team and visited in person at least once a year to get a full check-up and see how my heart was doing,” the actor said. “That’s life with a genetic heart issue. But you won’t hear me complaining.”
Schwarzenegger said he’s especially concerned about keeping close communication with his medical team because his mother died in 1998 after not getting valve replacement surgery.
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“I went in for my normal checkup at the beginning of March on my way to the Arnold Sports Festival, and they did a full series of tests,” the “Terminator” star revealed. “I told them I’d stop in Cleveland on my way home from the UK, and we’d do it. Monday, I went under and got my new machine part installed,” he said. “Like I said, by Friday, I was out doing my normal environmental work, and nobody knew anything.” 
The actor also discussed how, in Austrian culture, people don&#8217;t always talk about personal details such as medical challenges. He hopes his candid conversations will inspire podcast listeners to take action themselves. 
“I could have kept it a secret. But I know that we have more than 750,000 subscribers now — the village is a city now — and a lot of you are probably dealing with your own health challenges,” he said. “I want you to know you aren’t alone. And if you’re putting something off out of fear, I hope I inspire you to listen to your doctors and take care of yourself.”

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Actors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Danny DeVito</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arnold-schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>, who starred together in the 1988 action comedy “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Twins</a>,” will be reuniting for a new project.
DeVito, 79, made the revelation while speaking with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/twins-stars-danny-devito-arnold-schwarzenegger-reuniting-new-movie-script">Fox News Digital</a>. 
&#8220;He&#8217;s like my buddy. We have a good time together,&#8221; the “Matilda” actor said of Schwarzenegger. &#8220;You know, we&#8217;re trying to do another movie together. We&#8217;re in the middle of — there&#8217;s a script being written. We want to get back on the big screen together.&#8221;
The pair was last seen together presenting at the Academy Awards on Sunday. In addition to “Twins,” they worked together in the 1994 comedy “Junior.”
DeVito didn’t elaborate on the new project beyond confirming that it won’t be a “Twins” sequel. &#8220;Ivan, rest his soul; he&#8217;s no longer with us. Ivan Reitman, who did ‘Twins,’ who got us together on the screen for the first time,&#8221; DeVito said.
Reitman, who directed &#8220;Ghostbusters,&#8221; “Junior,” and &#8220;Kindergarten Cop,&#8221; died in 2022. 
DeVito said he became friends with Schwarzenegger, 76, before they worked together professionally. “Not at the gym, because I don&#8217;t go,&#8221; he joked. &#8220;But we&#8217;re looking forward to getting back up there on the screen. So, fingers crossed, next year we&#8217;ll be in production with something. We always have a good time together. He&#8217;s a sweet guy.&#8221;
“We smoke a stogie in the yard,” he told the outlet at another point of his friend and co-star. “You know, come on, and we have a good time. I love him.&#8221;
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DeVito previously alluded to this unnamed project, mentioning that “Twins 2” never happened because Schwarzenegger entered politics and was elected governor of California in 2003.
&#8220;Arnold and I want to work together,” DeVito told <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/danny-devito-i-need-that-interview-2023">GQ</a> in an interview published in November 2023. “We missed Twins 2, because he became governor — which, he should have done ‘Twins 2’ instead of becoming governor,” he added. “Now we have a little thing going, a little project that we’ve been chatting about,” DeVito said.
The actor described the project, saying it was “just two friends, two guys, because we have a good time together. We complement each other in a lot of ways. I am way stronger than he is.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-honored-by-holocaust-museum-calls-on-people-to-confront-anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> was detained at the airport in Munich on Wednesday after officials spotted a luxury watch the actor reportedly failed to declare was planned for auction.
The 76-year-old <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/17/arnold-schwarzenegger-detained-munich-airport-over-luxury-watch">actor</a> was held by customs officials after they searched his luggage and found a custom-made Swiss brand Audemars Piguet $21,000 wristwatch in his suitcase before he was finally freed, the German news outlet <a href="https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/arnold-schwarzenegger-am-flughafen-muenchen-festgehalten-aerger-mit-dem-zoll-86800126.bild.html">Bild</a> reported. 
The &#8220;Terminator&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-wont-discuss-affair-in-new-self-help-book-i-blew-up-my-family" target="_blank" rel="noopener">star</a> was held for three hours after arriving in the country from Los Angeles because he had failed to declare the item upon arrival.
The German tabloid reported that the former Gov. of California was friendly with officials in the beginning, but the longer the investigation went on the more agitated he became.
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Munich Customs press officer Thomas Meister told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/europe/arnold-schwarzenegger-munich-airport-watch-intl/index.html">CNN</a> that Schwarzenegger &#8220;did not declare a product. A product that was imported from non-EU countries in order to remain in the EU. And this process applies to everyone.&#8221;
A spokesperson for the main customs office in Munich told the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/17/arnold-schwarzenegger-detained-munich-airport-over-luxury-watch">Guardian</a>, &#8220;We have initiated criminal tax proceedings. The watch should have been registered because it is an import.”
The &#8220;Commando&#8221; star reportedly tried to tell officials the watch was being donated to the Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative and was going to be auctioned off.
&#8220;This is the problem that Germany is suffering from. You can no longer see the forest for the trees,&#8221; Schwarzenegger said.
A source close to the actor told CNN, &#8220;Arnold was detained for three hours today at Munich airport for traveling with a watch he owns, that he might be auctioning at his charity auction tomorrow in Kitzbuhel (in Austria).&#8221;
 &#8220;He was never asked to fill out a declaration form and he answered every question from customs officers honestly,&#8221; the source added. &#8220;He cooperated at every step even though it was an incompetent shakedown, a total comedy of errors that would make a very funny cop movie.&#8221;
The insider said that &#8220;Arnold agreed to pre-pay potential taxes on the watch and the officers failed to use a credit card machine for an hour until they gave up.&#8221;
The Hollywood actor was then brought to a bank and was asked to &#8220;withdraw cash from an ATM to pay,&#8221; the source <a href="https://people.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-detained-at-munich-airport-over-valuable-watch-he-was-carrying-8430988?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_term=65a84751cc8ea90001fe166e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.  &#8220;The ATM they brought him to had a limit too low and the bank was closed. When he returned, a new officer brought a new credit card machine that worked.&#8221;
The actor was finally allowed to leave the airport, the source concluded.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-opens-up-about-telling-maria-shriver-hed-fathered-a-son-with-housekeeper-in-new-documentary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> received the Award of Courage from the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles and called on people to &#8220;confront&#8221; anti-Semitism following the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,400 people.
During the 15th annual gala on Monday night, the 76-year-old actor and former California governor was awarded the honor for his years of work combating anti-Semitism and bigotry amid a rise in anti-Jewish attacks across the world, according to the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/arnold-schwarzenegger-holocaust-museum-la-confront-antisemitism-1235638480/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood Reporter</a>.
Schwarzenegger said as the son of a Nazi soldier, Gustav Schwarzenegger, he wanted to fight &#8220;for inclusion against hatred and speak out about hatred, and how wrong it is to not look at everyone&#8217;s life equally. And to attack each other because of someone&#8217;s religion and religious background or their color or their sex, whatever it is.&#8221;
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&#8220;I felt it was very important, especially since I come from a country that is known to be a big part of the Second World War and had the most vicious Nazis during the Second World War and beforehand,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I thought it is important to go out and to let people know that the next generation doesn&#8217;t have to be the same, that the next generation can change.&#8221;
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The &#8220;Terminator&#8221; star said he experienced anti-Semitism in his own home from his father, who slammed the Jewish publisher of a bodybuilding magazine Arnold was interested in. He said years later when he made it to America, it was that same publisher who set him up with housing and money, something he shared at the time with his father.
&#8220;From that moment on, I said to myself, &#8216;I have to go and fight that, I have to go and speak out about hatred, I have to go and get involved in this issue,'&#8221; Schwarzenegger said. &#8220;And the more I became a celebrity, the more I became a movie star and a bodybuilding star and all that, the more I felt like, &#8216;Oh, I have another power.'&#8221;
Schwarzenegger said, &#8220;[T]here&#8217;s all this chatter out there and all this stuff and all this negativity and hatred that we have to speak up and confront them. The more we speak out about that issue [anti-Semitism], the better it is.&#8221;
&#8220;So every day you have to talk about that, you have talked about it over and over again because we cannot let them get away with those lies and with this hatred,&#8221; he added. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to talk to them, and talk them down and let them know that the only way to go is through love… hatred you never ever win; love in the end always wins.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schwarzenegger-on-his-father-being-a-nazi-was-sucked-into-a-hate-system-through-lies-and-deceits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Schwarzenegger On His Father Being A Nazi: Was &#8216;Sucked Into A Hate System Through Lies And Deceits&#8217;</a>

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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-wont-discuss-affair-in-new-self-help-book-i-blew-up-my-family" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> accused Democrats of wanting &#8220;to f*** up every city in America&#8221; during a recent appearance on fellow actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rob-lowe-recalls-rock-bottom-moment-while-abusing-alcohol-this-is-no-way-to-live" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rob Lowe&#8217;s</a> Sirius XM podcast, &#8220;Literally! With Rob Lowe.&#8221;
The action film legend — a Republican who previously served as California&#8217;s 38th governor from 2003-2011 — said that from what he could see, the Democratic Party appeared to be actively working to &#8220;ruin&#8221; every city over which they had been able to gain control.
The conversation between the two longtime friends — as <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/arnold-schwarzenegger-tells-rob-lowe-democrats-want-to-fck-up-every-city-in-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by Mediaite — eventually turned to the two major political parties and what each stood for in terms of policies and priorities.
Lowe led off with an example — former Rep. David Dreier (R-CA).
&#8220;Okay, let me ask you this, and I ask people this all the time,&#8221; the former Brat Pack member began. &#8220;David Dreier, good friend of ours and a good man. Surfer for many, many, many years. He used to have the greatest, &#8216;what makes me a Republican,&#8217; and he had I think four or five things. I think it was, in no particular order, strong military, low taxes, less government, more personal freedoms. There might have been one more, but it makes sense to know –&#8221;
&#8220;Strong law enforcement,&#8221; Schwarzenegger prompted.
&#8220;Strong law enforcement,&#8221; Lowe agreed before pivoting in the opposite direction. &#8220;And then I’d like to know, I always ask Democrats what it means to be a Democrat in that way. And I, I think whatever anybody would say –&#8221;
&#8220;Ruin your cities,&#8221; the &#8220;Terminator&#8221; star interrupted.
&#8220;What would they say?&#8221; Lowe asked.
&#8220;Ruin your cities,&#8221; Schwarzenegger said again.
&#8220;Ruin your cities,&#8221; Lowe repeated.
&#8220;That’s what the Democrats would say. We are about ruining the cities. We want to f*** up every city in America. That seems to be the theme right now,&#8221; he said.
Lowe asked why Schwarzenegger thought Democrats would want something like that, and the &#8220;True Lies&#8221; star admitted that he was at a loss.
&#8220;I have no idea,&#8221; he said.
The <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/literally-with-rob-lowe/id1510058141" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full episode</a> featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled to be available on Thursday.

Arnold Schwarzenegger In Conversation With Ryan Holiday

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Democrats ‘Want To F*** Up Every City In America’

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Democrats 'Want To F*** Up Every City In America'

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arnold-schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> said he won’t discuss the details of his extramarital <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marriage">affair</a> in his new self-help book.
&#8220;I blew up my family,&#8221; the 76-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">actor</a> wrote in “Be Useful: The Seven Tools For Life,” slated for an October 24 release. &#8220;No failure has ever felt worse than that.&#8221;
&#8220;I won&#8217;t be rehashing that story here. I&#8217;ve told it before in other places, and other places have told it multiple times. All of you know the story. If you don&#8217;t, you&#8217;ve heard of Google, and you know how to find it,” the actor-turned-politician continued in the excerpt, per <a href="https://www.etonline.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-explains-why-he-wont-talk-about-his-affair-in-new-book-i-blew-my-family-up">ET Online</a>.
Schwarzenegger&#8217;s wife of almost 25 years, Maria Shriver, filed for divorce in 2011 after news of the actor’s affair with the family housekeeper Mildred Patricia &#8220;Patty&#8221; Baena went public. Schwarzenegger fathered a son with Baena. 
&#8220;I&#8217;ve hurt my family enough, and it&#8217;s been a long road to repair those relationships,&#8221; he wrote in the book. &#8220;I will not turn them into fodder for the gossip machine.&#8221;
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The actor continued, &#8220;By the end of that year, I had found myself in a place that was both familiar and foreign. I was at the bottom. I&#8217;d been here before. But this time, I was face down in the mud, in a dark hole, and I had to decide whether it was worth it to clean myself up and start the climb out, or just give up.&#8221;
The former Republican governor of California discussed the end of his marriage during a May 2023 <a href="https://www.etonline.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-addresses-cheating-scandal-says-hes-still-good-friends-with-ex-wife-maria">interview</a> with ET. 
&#8220;[The divorce] was very, very difficult in the beginning. She and I are really good friends, and very close and we are very proud of the way we raised our kids, even though we had this drama, we did Easter together, Mother&#8217;s Day together, the Christmases together, all birthdays &#8212; everything together,&#8221; he told the outlet. &#8220;If there&#8217;s Oscars for how to handle divorce, Maria and I should get it for having the least amount of impact on the kids.&#8221;   
The couple shares four children together, Katherine, 33, Christina, 32, Patrick, 30, and Christopher, 26.
“My chapter with Maria will continue on forever,” he told People Magazine in a recent <a href="https://people.com/the-biggest-revelations-from-arnold-schwarzenegger-s-new-book-8349472">interview</a>. “Even though it’s a different relationship, there’s no reason for me to feel anything other than love for her.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger Won’t Discuss Affair In New Self-Help Book: ‘I Blew Up My Family’

Arnold Schwarzenegger Won't Discuss Affair In New Self-Help Book: 'I Blew Up My Family'

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arnold-schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> related a scary experience he had during open-heart surgery.  
The 76-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">actor</a> discussed the incident in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-vTVjV-2x8">YouTube</a> video posted on August 23, saying he had just undergone his third open-heart surgery months before he was due to start filming &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">Terminator: Dark Fate</a>,&#8221; which debuted in 2019.
“I remember when I had my open heart surgery, the third one, which was just a few years ago just before we started ‘Terminator 6,&#8217;” Schwarzenegger said. “I was really freaking out. I woke up and all of a sudden the doctors were in front of me saying, ‘I’m so sorry, but it was unlike what we planned.&#8217;”
The former Republican governor of California went on to say how the procedure was supposed to be simple but was complicated by doctors who “made a mistake and poked through the heart wall&#8221; and “had to open [him] up very quickly to save [his] life.”
&#8220;I was really freaking out,&#8221; he added.
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Schwarzenegger said all he could do at that point was move forward and focus on recovering as quickly as possible. 
“The bottom line is, you cannot roll the clock back. It was a disaster. I was in the middle of a disaster,” he said. “So now, how do I get out of it? You have to shift gears. Collect yourself, shift gears and say, ‘OK, what I need to do now is get out of this hospital.&#8217;”
He said he called on friends to help speed up the recovery process.
“I even called my buddies in and I said, ‘You guys have to fire me up,&#8217;” he said in the video. “I looked like an idiot waddling around in the hallways, but the bottom line was I was getting going because the doctors said you have to exercise your lungs because if you get pneumonia you can die.”
Schwarzenegger added, “I wanted to get really going with the exercise, get out of the hospital as quick as possible, and then get going with the training again. I had to be in shape, I had to move around, run around, lift things up, do the fight scenes.”
He credits his full recovery with this support team. &#8220;The way all the guys pumped me up and got me going, and then when I started shooting &#8216;Terminator 6,&#8217; I was all back together again,&#8221; he said.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Said He Almost Died When Surgeons ‘Made A Mistake’ During Heart Procedure

Arnold Schwarzenegger Said He Almost Died When Surgeons 'Made A Mistake' During Heart Procedure

Aging actors can predict their golden years with some certainty.
They’ll play supporting roles, coaching much younger co-stars to victory, if they’re lucky. Otherwise, they’ll work the Comic-Con circuit peddling autographs tied to their glory days or just hope the phone will ring one more time.
Tell that to Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Stallone, 77, and Schwarzenegger, 76, once went head-to-head at the U.S. box office. Now, they’re still going strong, landing lead roles and flexing the star power that first lit up decades ago.
They even have dueling documentaries that capture their larger-than-life careers.
It’s almost like the 1980s never ended. But why can’t we let go of the pair and bond with younger stars still in their industry prime?
Nostalgia plays a part, no doubt. We can’t quit these superstars, much like the public mourning that followed fellow action star Bruce Willis’ forced retirement due to his aphasia diagnosis.
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It helps that both Stallone and Schwarzenegger have worked very hard to stay in shape, far better than most of their audience members.
There’s something else in play. The actors are keenly aware of their image, and that hasn’t ebbed over time. They’re populist figures who win the day by the third act. They rarely cast themselves against type, knowing audiences expect a certain performance from them.
Stallone is still licking his professional wounds from comedic duds like “Oscar” and “Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot.”
They’re loathe to disappoint the very fans that kept their careers afloat for more than 80 years, combined.
And, most shocking of all, few modern stars can compete with these senior citizens. They’ve been neutered by cries of “toxic masculinity,” something Stallone and Schwarzenegger would never let happen.
Schwarzenegger’s comeback may be the more surprising. He ditched Hollywood for politics as his A-list status was fading, becoming California’s last Republican governor in 2003. He left politics after his second term and went back to Hollywood.
Except his fan base wasn’t eager for his return, at least not yet.
Films like “The Last Stand” ($12 million), “Sabotage” ($10 million) and “Escape Plan” ($25 million) hardly lit the box office ablaze. Even his two “Terminator” sequels, “Genisys” and “Dark Fate,” drew modest crowds.
He kept plugging away, turning in credible turns in the indie horror movie “Maggie” and “Dark Fate,” despite the latter reducing him to a secondary role. He stole the film anyway.
Then a funny thing happened to the former Mr. Olympia. Netflix gave his career a second life. The combination of a three-part documentary, efficiently named “Arnold,” reminded America just why he became the biggest star in the Hollywood galaxy.
The docuseries came on the heels of the action-comedy series &#8220;FUBAR” put him back on the Hollywood map. <a href="https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-fubar-renewed-season-2-1235647782/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety reported</a> the show generated 88.94 million hours viewed after hitting the streaming service for just four days.
Now, he’s got more gigs lined up and a second season of “FUBAR,” assuming the actors ever end their current strike.
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Stallone hasn’t stopped working, at all, but he’s recently seen an uptick in high-profile gigs. Not only has he played Rocky Balboa again in two successful “Creed” films, he’s kept busy with both “Rambo” and “Expendables” sequels. The fourth film in the latter series drops in September.
Last year, he headlined the Amazon Prime original “Samaritan,” but his best role in ages came courtesy of “Yellowstone” overlord Taylor Sheridan. The writer/director’s “Tulsa King” cast Stallone as an aging New York gangster farmed out to Oklahoma to stay far, far away from the rest of the mobsters. Except Dwight Manfredi tames Tulsa in short order, causing new problems for his old “family.”
Sheridan is known for avoiding woke storytelling tics, but his “Tulsa King” brings something else to the TV landscape. Stallone’s anti-hero could be the poster child for toxic masculinity. He gets what he wants, when he wants, and he often doesn’t care who he needs to shove aside to make it happen.
So triggering!
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Those characteristics, while often brutish in nature, aren’t condemned in any 21st century fashion. We can’t help but admire his brio. It’s infectious, and while we don’t condone his illegal antics it’s comforting to see him flex his power.
That he often does so to protect women, especially his grown daughter, makes that masculinity even more appealing.
How many younger stars could pull that off?
The actor earned sold notices for his performance in the show along with a second season renewal, and he’s about to get another blast of fame. Netflix will debut “<a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81450717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sly</a>,” a documentary capturing his colorful career, on November 3.
Stallone and Schwarzenegger aren’t the only aging stars the public craves. A <a href="https://puck.news/only-old-movie-stars-matter-to-moviegoers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent poll</a> of stars who can still draw a crowd featured fellow veterans like Denzel Washington (68), Brad Pitt (59) and Tom Cruise (61) in that bracket.
The younger generation just doesn’t cut it, at least when it comes to putting fannies in seats (or drawing streaming eyeballs).
Stallone and Schwarzenegger, both closer to the big 80 than they’d like to admit, may never go out of style.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
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Premiere Of Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Creed” – Red Carpet

Stallone And Schwarzenegger: The Decades-Long Rivalry Continues With New Documentaries, Hit Shows

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No late-night shows, celebrity profiles or awards show gatherings. Major 2023 releases like “Dune 2” could be bumped to 2024, much like the fate of “Kraven the Hunter” and the “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” sequel.
The earth continues to spin, and most people have bigger issues on their minds. Inflation. Gas prices. Their nation turning into a banana republic in real time.
Dueling Hollywood strikes have shut down La La Land, and there’s little panic across the American heartland.
Does anyone outside of the Hollywood area code care?
Stars like <a href="https://people.com/billy-porter-has-to-sell-home-due-to-strike-7574247" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Billy Porter are downsizing</a> while audiences e-watch “The Office” to savor life in the pre-woke era. The writers put away their pens on May 2, with actors joining their strike on July 14. The Hollywood machinery ground to a halt, with only projects birthed outside the traditional gatekeepers moving forward.
Few predict a swift resolution to either strike, and even if the writers end their walkout first they’ll have no one to read their lines.
It’s hard to escape a palpable yawn to all of the above. 
Wait. Don’t audiences love celebrities, follow their every move and listen with rapt attention when they speak? Once upon a time, of course. And they still do, to an extent, but one side of this cultural bromance has been behaving too badly to keep the relationship afloat.
Part of the issue is pragmatic in nature.
Audiences have endless content to explore on a gaggle of streaming platforms, including free options like Pluto TV and Tubi. Video games have never been so sophisticated and engaging. YouTube shares killer podcasts, feisty comic sketches and original fare made for a fraction of what it might cost Hollywood, Inc. to produce.
Who needs the Food Network when you can watch Sam the Cooking Guy’s videos with slick production values and a fraction of the commercial load? Miss “Saturday Night Live?” Try sketches from Ryan Long, Kyle Dunnigan and J.P. Sears instead. They’re waiting for you at the click of a mouse, and they pack a better satirical bite than anything from the NBC showcase.
Much of the independent content being made is 100% woke-free. Another bonus.
Hollywood’s PR problem expands beyond those content alternatives.
The industry has been insulting large swathes of the public for some time now. The problem intensifies during election cycles, but the attacks never fully stop even after all the votes have been counted.
Both <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSBl1JWIlI&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodintoto.com%2F&amp;feature=emb_title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conan O’Brien</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0pO9VG1J8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC’s “Saturday Night Live”</a>’ compared President Donald Trump’s fans to Nazis in recent years. 
“Please watch our shows and movies. Oh, and by the way, we hate you and your political choices.” That’s just a microscopic look at a larger, more disturbing trend in Hollywood. 
The recent pandemic the bond between audience and artist even more tenuous.
We saw celebrity hypocrisy on full blast via events like the 2021 Met Gala where the stars roamed the halls sans masks while “the help” had <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9989583/Social-media-rages-hypocrtical-Met-Gala-listers-AOC-NOT-wearing-masks.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">their faces covered in cloth</a>. TV shows featured talk show hosts addressing fully masked audiences without a flicker of guilt or shame.
It got worse when some of those talkers <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/colbert-trump-coronavirus-protestors-985703/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked everyday Americans</a> for protesting what we now know were cruel, ineffective lockdowns that damaged their businesses.
Sometimes permanently.
Other stars slammed anyone who didn’t get their government-approved COVID-19 vaccine, ignoring factors like natural immunity and medical autonomy along the way.
<a href="https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/backwoodsaltar/howard-stern-tears-into-anti-vaxxers-fuck-their-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Howard Stern</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/opinion-those-who-say-screw-your-freedom-dont-understand-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> separately cursed America’s freedoms along the way. Only the “Terminator” star <a href="https://www.essentiallysports.com/us-sports-news-bodybuilding-news-years-after-screw-your-freedom-statement-arnold-schwarzenegger-issues-public-apology-im-sorry-for-saying-those-words/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologized for his words</a>. <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/08/jimmy-kimmel-says-unvaxxed-americans-dont-deserve-icu-beds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Kimmel suggested</a> unvaccinated Americans shouldn’t be treated at local hospitals.
Was he kidding? Hard to tell given the rhetoric flowing from La La Land.
More discerning consumers read all about unvaccinated actors finding themselves unemployed. Broadway and TV actor Clifton Duncan <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNwyaE6b2IA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left the business for that reason</a>, earning a new fan base by calling out the creative community’s draconian measures.
We still have plenty of rock-solid reasons to care about the dueling strikes. Most actors can barely make a living these days, working from gig to gig just to keep their finances afloat. For every Clooney, Streep, or Jordan there are hundreds of actors whose names we’ll never know hoping for their big break. Some may never get it.
This is doubly true for many Hollywood scribes who toil in near complete anonymity.
The current system should reflect the massive technological shifts happening behind Hollywood’s golden walls. Streamers also should be more transparent about how many people watch their shows … and share that information with the stars and scribes who make it all possible.
You can hate Hollywood’s political leanings and understand the system feels rigged or their collective fear over AI’s potential.
Plus, the studios are likely playing hardball while their executives enjoy lavish salaries and lifestyles.
Eventually, we will run low in fresh content and will crave something new beyond Michael Scott’s “Office” shenanigans.
Hollywood strikers have yet another PR problem on their hands. The culture feels a growing divide between the “elites” – the experts who share misinformation while blocking opposing views – and regular Americans who see celebrities as part of that exasperating group.
Hollywood&#8217;s combination of nasty politics and pandemic-era hate makes it darn near impossible to root for either side. 

Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>. 
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sylvester-stallone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sylvester Stallone</a> said <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arnold-schwarzenegger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> is the “superior” action star even after years of animosity and competition between the two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrities</a>.
“The ’80s was a very interesting time because the definitive ‘action guy’ had not really been formed yet,” Stallone said in the newly released Netflix documentary “Arnold,” per <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/sylvester-stallone-arnold-schwarzenegger-better-action-star-1234873616/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IndieWire</a>. “Up until that time, action was a car chase like ‘Bullitt’ or ‘The French Connection.’ A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">film</a> all about intellect and innuendo and verbal this and verbal that.”
Stallone went on to say that Schwarzenegger was one of the first actors to make action movies more focused on the actor rather than the project.
“You actually relied upon your body to tell the story,” the “Rocky” lead said. “Dialogue was not necessary. I saw that there was an opportunity, because no one else was doing this except some other guy from Austria, who doesn’t need to say much… He was superior. He just had all the answers. He had the body. He had the strength. That was his character.”
“I had to get my ass kicked constantly, whereas Arnold, he never got hurt much,” Stallone said of their different on-screen personas. “And I’m going, ‘Arnold, you could go out and fight a dragon and you’d come back with a Band-Aid.’”
Schwarzenegger was equally complimentary toward his contemporary. “Every time he came out with a movie like ‘Rambo II,’ I had to figure out a way of now outdoing that. Without Stallone, I maybe wouldn’t have been as motivated in the ’80s to do the kind of movies that I did and to work as hard as I did. I’m a competitive person,” the Austrian-born actor said. 
Stallone told <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottking/2022/11/11/sylvester-stallone-opens-up-on-competing-with-arnold-schwarzenegger-in-their-heyday/?sh=6668d07ca305" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forbes</a> last November that he and Schwarzenegger “really disliked each other immensely” in the 80s and continuously for two decades as their action films were always competing.
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“We were… this may sound a little vain, but I think we were pioneering a kind of genre at that time and it hasn’t been seen since really,” Stallone told the publication. “So the competition, because it’s his nature, he is very competitive and so am I… and I just thought it actually helped, but off-screen we were still competitive and that was not a healthy thing at all, but we’ve become really good friends.”

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