Having an action hero dad like Arnold Schwarzenegger, you can imagine that his kids have seen plenty of wild behind the scenes moments over his many years in movies. Now as he takes his first TV lead in Netflix’s FUBAR, Schwarzenegger has revealed how his daughter Katherine went into “freak-out city” when paying a visit to the set of Terminator 2: Judgement Day and seeing her dad with half a face.
Schwarzenegger told the story to CinemaBlend while discussing his new series, which ironically is about Schwarzenegger’s character and his daughter, who he discovers is a secret agent just like him. If it sounds familiar, then it does certainly have similar traits to Schwarzenegger’s True Lies, which saw him keeping his life as a secret agent secret from his family. When it comes to his own family, it is clear that there have never been any secrets about what the actor gets up to on set. He recalled:
“I think that they slowly were exposed to it. So even when my daughter, Katherine, was like one year old, Maria brought her to the set, and I remember she’s seeing me with this half skull, and with blood running down and half human being, you know, my face. I mean, imagine a one year old baby seeing her dad like that! It was freak-out city. She started screaming and crying and freaking out. So this was the introduction to a movie set for her. My kids came to the set all the time, and they watched me blow up things, watched me killing endless amounts of people, shooting them up and stabbing them to death and all this kind of stuff – driving over their bodies, blowing up buildings. So that was it.”
FUBAR Brings Schwarzenegger to the Small Screen.
Very much like Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been late in coming to the world of streaming TV shows, but that doesn’t mean it is too late for him to make an impact. FUBAR certainly has all the signs of being a classic Schwarzenegger outing, and for those who have loved nothing more than seeing Arnie fire guns, blow things up and looked occasionally perplexed throughout it all, then the eight part series is not likely to disappoint. FUBARshowrunner Nick Santora recently talked about his life-long love of Schwarzenegger action movies, and how working with the star was a dream come true.
“FUBAR is, by far, the most surreal project of my career. I grew up watching Arnold Schwarzenegger films — I’d hit my dad up for a few bucks so I could race to the movies and see the biggest star in the world on the big screen — so creating the first scripted television project for Arnold is unbelievably exciting for me. The thing I always marveled at was how Schwarzenegger could be funny while still kicking ass … that’s why I wanted FUBAR to be a hysterical, CIA-spy comedy mixed with heart-stopping action! And it is all that – and more. I’d love to elaborate with more details, but, sorry, it’s classified.”
FUBAR arrives on Netflix on May 25.