Linda Hamilton.Photo:Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty ; TriStar Pictures/ Courtesy: Everett Collection
Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty ; TriStar Pictures/ Courtesy: Everett Collection
Linda Hamiltonis “done” playingSarah Connor.
The 67-year-old starred as the character inThe Terminator(1984), before returning forTerminator 2: Judgment Day(1991) and eventually starring inTerminator: Dark Fate(2019). Hamiltonchose not to star inTerminator 3: Rise of the Machines(2003),Terminator: Salvation(2009) andTerminator: Genisys(2015).
Despite herTerminatorreturn four years ago, Hamilton recently insisted she isn’t interested in starring in a potential reboot of the popular franchise.
“I’m done. I’m done. I have nothing more to say. The story’s been told, and it’s been done to death,” she toldBusiness Insider.
“Why anybody would relaunch it is a mystery to me. But I know our Hollywood world is built on relaunches right now,” Hamilton added.
TheDante’s Peakstar also shut down any suggestion of Sarah Connor being “an icon.”
“I truly feel like, and felt like, Sarah Connor is not an icon. She’s a woman in hell. She makes some really bad choices. She’s not a good mother, she’s a good fighter!” she said.
“So you sort of try to parse the details out and go ‘Well, they respect her strength and her power, and I did create a warrior, but she’s very imperfect. She’s an imperfect person.'”
Hamilton went on to joke about fans comparing her to herTerminatorcharacter, insisting she doesn’t spend her time fighting cyborg assassins from the future.
“So it was hard to sort of come to terms with all that and then just go, ‘Okay, I can accept it,’ because I’ve heard it now for so many years, people actually treat me like I saved the future,” Hamilton said.
“If you could see how utterly hapless I am during my life and my daily life! But it’s pretty cute, and I have no complaints, it’s delightful,” she added.
The Terminator.
This isn’t the first time Hamilton has spoken about being “done” playing the character. In 2020, she toldThe Hollywood Reporterthat she“would be quite happy to never return”to the franchise.
In 2022, Cameron said anotherTerminatorfilmwas “in discussion.” While speaking on theSmartlesspodcast, he said at the time, “If I were to do anotherTerminatorfilm and maybe try and to launch that franchise again, which is in discussion, but nothing has been decided… I would make it much more about the AI side of it than bad robots gone crazy,”The Playlistreported.
source: people.com
