Linda Hamilton has recently been doing interviews for the home release of Terminator: Dark Fate, and she told CinemaBlend the following regarding the return of her character (Sarah Connor) after many years of absence from the franchise and wanting to have visual shock value in the same way she achieved in Terminator 2: Judgment Day…
Linda Hamilton (presumably) joked…
The shock value, I think, sort of plants everybody in, immediately. I actually kept arguing that maybe she should just be fat. That would have shock value too.
Linda Hamilton via CinemaBlend
On wanting to achieve a major physical transformation again, she said:
There was the element of shock in between Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day, where the audience sees Sarah Connor and they’re like ‘Holy fuck!’ So I thought that coming back 30 years later would give our audience a ‘Holy fuck!’ moment. Like ‘Oh that ain’t the old Sarah Connor, that’s the old Sarah Connor.’ I embraced that, and dyed my hair grey, because I actually don’t have grey hair yet, which is just genetics.
Linda Hamilton via CinemaBlend
Linda did achieve that shock factor when we ran exclusive first look images of Linda’s Sarah Connor on the set of Terminator: Dark Fate. The reception to her look was fantastic and the images really did excite the wider audience, at least until the first trailer launched…
If Sarah Connor had been obese – then technically the excuse was built into the movie as Sarah Connor was given a new fondness for potato chips. There was even a collectible dedicated to Sarah Connor’s love of the snack, and also how she used it as a makeshift Faraday cage to protect her cellphone from unwanted tampering from the government and machines.
Would ‘fat Sarah Connor’ have saved Terminator: Dark Fate? let us know in the comments below…
Linda Hamilton first talked about ‘Fat Sarah Connor’ with Total Film last year. You can listen to the full read-through in the video below.
