Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Arnold Schwarzenegger Became a Movie Star Using the Same Philosophy That Made Him a Body Building Champion

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Before Ronald Schwartzeneger was
the biggest movie star of the nineteen eighties. He was
the most successful bodybuilder of all time, dominating the sport
in the nineteen seventies as a five time Mister Universe
and seven time Mister Olympia, which relied on discipline and
repetition to build up his physique, and when he began
to transition in acting, he used that same philosophy to
show up to set on day one with the entire

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screenplay memorized front to back. He tells Variety, I studied
the script from month and I hired someone to read
the parts with me. We rehearsed, We did reps. It's
from bodybuilding reps, reps, reps, and more reps you do,
the better you get. It also comes from old Hollywood.
The director Billy Wilder always said, I didn't hire you interpreters.
I hired actors. The old directors were fanatics. They would say,

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study your dialogue and hit the mark. Arnold says he
also set a goal to eventually get paid the one
million dollars that stars like Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson
were commanding at the time for a role. Only a
few years later, Arnold was earning thirty million a picture
that's direct from Hollywood.