He’s been known to turn in a few lifeless performances in his movies, so playing a wax model was no great stretch for actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. And it’s proven to be perhaps his most convincing role to date.
The 67-year-old reprised the role of T-800, his classic Terminator character at Madame Tassauds in Hollywood and fooled many visitors into thinking he was a wax model.
In a video Schwarzenegger uploaded this week, cinema buffs can be seen posing alongside him and taking pictures. They get the fright of their lives, however, when Schwarzenegger utters his legendary catchphrase and starts moving.
The prank was staged to highlight Schwarzenegger’s After School All-Stars charity, which seeks to help students in financial difficulty thrive in education.
“Last year I learned that the more fun I have promoting after-school all-stars, the more fun you have watching and the more you get engaged. So it's my Trojan horse - I do ridiculous things and have a great time, but I get you to pay attention to something really close to my heart,” said the former Governor of California.
“This isn't a vanity project - I know the power of after-school programs in kids' lives and that's why I started After-School All-Stars more than 25 years ago. I've talked to teachers, police officers, parents, and most importantly, the kids themselves and I've never seen such unanimous agreement.
“But still, some politicians mess around with the funding because the kids don't have a high-paid lobbyist like all of the adults do and their parents are too busy working to fight - 70% of households include two working parents, so 70% of our kids lack the supervision and growth and love from 3-6pm that they deserve and need.
“He continued: 'Our biggest responsibility is to our kids but they are unquestionably the most underrepresented in our capitols so we end up spending lots of our money on the adults, on the present and the past, and not on our kids, the future. That's why I fly to Washington every time they talk about cutting the after-school funding to make sure they don't screw over the kids. But whatever you do, please don't call me a lobbyist.”
Entertainment Reporter