While Arnold Schwarzenegger is best known for blowing things up and taking on legions of bad guys, from the late 80s onward, the Terminator star found his feet briefly in the comedy genre thanks to the movies Twins and Kindergarten Cop. In 1994, as well as a reunion with director James Cameron on the action blockbuster True Lies, he also teamed up again with Danny DeVito on the comedy Junior, a movie that told the story of a scientist who undergoes an experimental treatment that sees him being impregnated. While the film was moderately successful but not on the same comedy level as 1988’s Twins, the two actors appear to have had plenty of fun making the movie, with DeVito once tricking Schwarzenegger into getting high on set.

In a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Schwarzenegger discussed his upcoming reunion with DeVito on the movie Triplets, the sequel to Twins, and that led to him recalling some of the pranks that were played on him by his co-star. At length, he recounted:

“There was one time when I was shooting Junior, I remember and it was lunch break. And Danny said to me, he says, 'Come to my trailer, I cook some good Italian food.' And I said okay, so I went to the trailer, we ate the Italian food, it was delicious... Then afterwards he says 'Arnold you always give me cigars and I always feel guilty. I have cigars this time, I want to give you a cigar.' And then I said 'Well that’s - finally, I said, Danny, this is really great.'

He gives me this cigar, a really long one, beautiful cigar – Montecristo, Aniversario. And then so, I put it in my mouth and light it up and he just comes to me with the lighter and we light it up and I’m smoking it and it was fantastic. We get to the set, we continue on with the scene, I forgot my lines. I’m standing in front of the camera, it was a close up of me, Danny’s behind the camera and the director says 'action' – Ivan Reitman – and I said, 'um… What am I supposed to say?'

'Well, we [continuing] on with the scene, Arnold, from before lunch, remember the scene when you and Danny were talking about going out and you’re now pregnant and all of these kinds of things?' And so I said, 'No, I don’t remember,' I said 'What did we do before lunch?' And so I had to go to the script supervisor, I had to check out the script, I totally forgot everything. Find out then an hour and a half later when I finally started remembering things again that Danny put some marijuana in the front of the cigar.”

Junior Was Not a Complete Box Office Bomb, But Wasn’t One of Schwarzenegger’s Finest Hours

Junior didn’t just reunite the stars of Twins, but also put them back under the direction of Ivan Reitman, who sadly passed away this weekend, and proved that sometimes even bringing together a successful team doesn’t guarantee box office gold. The film barely scraped past $100 million at the box office, which on the back on its $60 million budget was a long way from the $216 million taken by Twins, which cost only $18 million to make.

While Schwarzenegger managed a couple of hits with his first comedy roles, follow-up movies like Junior and Jingle All The Way, despite later gaining a cult following, proved that what Arnie did best was act tough and blow things up, something he thankfully has done much more of in recent years than trying to make people laugh. Following the death of Ivan Reitman, there will need to be a change in personnel on Triplets, which could see son Jason step into the breach, but in the meantime, Schwarzenegger will be seen combining his action and comedy work on Kung Fury 2, in which he plays “The President” alongside David Sandberg in a movie that features Jorma Taccone as a “Kung Fuhrer” Adolf Hitler, and David Hasselhoff as Hoff 9000, a member of Sandberg’s character’s team who transforms into a car. Don’t pretend you aren’t intrigued.