<P> Cameron wanted his pitch for Daly to finalize the deal and had his friend Lance Henriksen show up to the meeting early dressed and acting like the Terminator . Henriksen, wearing a leather jacket, fake cuts on his face, and gold foil on his teeth, kicked open the door to the office and then sat in a chair . Cameron arrived shortly after which relieved the staff from Henriksen's act . Daly was impressed by the screenplay and Cameron's sketches and passion for the film . In late 1982, Daly agreed to back the film with help from HBO and Orion . The Terminator was originally budgeted at $4 million and later raised to $6.5 million . Hemdale, Pacific Western Productions and Cinema' 84 have been credited as production companies after the film's release . </P> <P>--James Cameron on casting Schwarzenegger . </P> <P> For the role of Kyle Reese, Orion wanted a star whose popularity was rising in the United States but who also would have foreign appeal . Orion co-founder Mike Medavoy had met Arnold Schwarzenegger and sent his agent the script for The Terminator . Cameron was dubious about casting Schwarzenegger as Reese as he felt he would need someone even bigger to play the Terminator . Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson were offered the Terminator role, but both turned it down . The studio suggested O.J. Simpson for the role, but Cameron did not feel that Simpson would be believable as a killer . </P> <P> Cameron agreed to meet with Schwarzenegger about the film and devised a plan to avoid casting him; he would pick a fight with him and return to Hemdale and find him unfit for the role . Upon meeting him, however, Cameron was entertained by Schwarzenegger who would talk about how the villain should be played . Cameron began sketching his face on a notepad and asked Schwarzenegger to stop talking and remain still . After the meeting, Cameron returned to Daly saying Schwarzenegger would not play Reese but that "he'd make a hell of a Terminator". Schwarzenegger was not as excited by the film; during an interview on the set of Conan the Destroyer, an interviewer asked him about a pair of shoes he had (which were for The Terminator). Schwarzenegger responded, "Oh some shit movie I'm doing, take a couple weeks ." He recounted in his memoir, Total Recall, that he was initially hesitant, but thought that playing a robot in a contemporary film would be a challenging change of pace from Conan the Barbarian and that the film was low profile enough that it would not damage his career if it were unsuccessful . He also wrote that "it took (him) awhile to figure out that Jim (Cameron) was the real deal ." In preparation for the role, Schwarzenegger spent three months training with weapons to be able to use them and feel comfortable around them . Schwarzenegger speaks only 18 lines in the film, and fewer than 100 words . James Cameron said that "Somehow, even his accent worked...It had a strange synthesized quality, like they hadn't gotten the voice thing quite worked out ." </P>

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