Terminator star Linda Hamilton says ex-husband James Cameron "really fell in love with Sarah Connor"
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By saying “Everywhere he’s convex, I’m concave,” Linda Hamilton has coined a top-notch phrase to describe any and all mismatched relationships. In her case, she details her own with director James Cameron in a recent The New York Times profile of the actress. In the piece, she acknowledges their relationship was a mystery to everyone—including both of them.
The pair met when they started filming the first Terminator movie in 1984 but began dating in 1991 after filming Terminator 2: Judgement Day. They wedded in 1997 but…terminated…their marriage two years later. Interestingly, Hamilton said that what brought them together wasn’t love, exactly, but her character, Sarah Connor. “I think what happened there is that he really fell in love with Sarah Connor, and I did, too,” she said. When asked for comment, Cameron agreed with this assessment. He told the Times, “I fell in love with her initially because I thought she was a little closer to Sarah than she actually is, but that doesn’t mean that much once you get to know somebody.” You know, the usual swoon-worthy stuff.
However, Hamilton also added in the interview that, though she was glad to be out of a relationship that required so much work, the split left her devastated for years. “When I broke up with Jim, I was completely devastated for years,” Hamilton said. “But I’m so glad to be free of that. I would never, ever put that much energy again into something that is not working.” She even took a step back from acting, appearing only in a handful of films and television shows like Chuck and Defiance.
Now, she returns to the franchise to reprise Sarah Connor for the first time in 18 years with Terminator: Dark Fate. Cameron produces the picture with Tim Miller in the director’s chair for the film, which releases on November 1. It also stars Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, Diego Boneta, with Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to play a now-aging Terminator.
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If he’s convex and she’s concave, wouldn’t that mean that they actually fit together?
Different focal lengths.
Perfect
This needs way more likes
Yeah, that’s exactly what I get from it. Like they spoon perfectly.
I know I’d probably still fork her … or even her twin sister. Or even the 3 of us together like a place setting.
And if you get the indices right, no chromatic aberration!
They would have had a perfect marriage if only they’d used
Yep, and that’s exactly what she said in the full quote in the linked article.
“I used to say we fit together like a puzzle: Everywhere he’s convex, I’m concave.”
It was a strange decision to edit out the first half of that.
Especially since the meaning is completely inverted in this article.
Re-reporting is hard!
That’s what I was coming to post! That sounds like they match exceptionally well.
I was thinking this. Maybe that only works for certain positions, though, like missionary.
well NOT in the same places silly
That’s literally how Yin/Yang works.
When a man puts his convex in a woman’s concave…
Seems like something Cameron would’ve corrected her about while they’re married. Maybe that’s why it wouldn’t have worked.
Thank you, came here to say this.
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No, one goes outward, the other inward.
Normally I would just dismiss a response this idiotic, but I feel like you deserve to be ridiculed for how stupid of a comment this is. Especially considering the actual context of the original quote.
“Now, she returns to the franchise to reprise Sarah Connor for the first time in 18 years with Terminator: Dark Fate.”18 years? Did I miss something around 2001?Never mind, you meant 28 years. I was thinking T2 came out in 1992.
And then he spoke out in favour of the new Terminator films while they were in production. Until those films came out, and then he cut them to pieces.But this new one is different, he promises.
Yeah, his two-facedness on those movies was pretty astonishing. He came out and said that Genesys was the “true sequel” as opposed to T3, but that movie was godawful! He should either get back in the director’s chair for one of these or just stop talking about them.
He didn’t produce those films, though. He’s producing this one.
“Now, she returns to the franchise to reprise Sarah Connor for the first time in 18 years”
Um.
What’s a decade between friends….
Also, technically she voices Sarah Connor on some audio tapes Christian Bale listens to in Terminator: Salvation.
Also, she has played Connor onscreen since T2: for the T2 3-D: Battle Across Time theme park attraction, which debuted in 1996.
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NO GODDAMNIT, THEY’RE RIGHT!!!!! There’s no WAY that movie was almost 30 fucking years ago!!! I’M STILL YOUNG, DAMMIT!!!!!!!!
This error actually made me feel old.
But you have to admit, as far as kinks go, asking your spouse to hide somewhere, so you can run around naked saying “Sarah Connor? Sarah Connor?” is pretty tame.
Cum with me if you want to live…?
This deserves more stars
Wrong, it had the right amount of stars when I got to it.Nice!
Heh. Nice.
“I need your clothes, your boots, and your… okay the reference falls apart here, but work with me a little, Linda”
At the very least he’s a very considerate Terminator
“Hasta la penis, baby!”
…okay…I’ll try harder.
You get a star but do better next time;)
That’s what SHE said.
Keep going guys! With your help I’m already half way though my Terminator porn parody script.
“I’ll be….cock?”Yeah, this isn’t easy. Terminator was kind of terse, not a lot to work with.
It was the hydraulic press play that got a little iffy. You need a safe word for that kind of thing.
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…and then post them as our own articles which raise the profile for a media property that is coincidentally coming out soon, as we mention in the last paragraph of the definitely-not-just-a-fucking-ad.
And butcher the quotes to mean the opposite of what was intended!
So does Hamilton’s identical twin sister make a cameo appearance in the new flick? She had a scene in T2. (You think about T2’s plot, it’s easy to point out the sister’s scene.)
I always thought James Cameron was in love with himself.
Clearly, his true love is the sea. Especially the part where the Titanic sits.
Linda herself said, after he won the Oscar and she was asked if it had changed him, “hard to tell, he was an asshole before”.
Even for someone as self-aggrandizing as James Cameron, marrying someone because they remind you of a character that you wrote is at least a little masturbatory.
I actually think it makes a lot of sense. In order for the plot of the first movie to work, we have to buy that Sarah is a Helen of Troy-esque beauty who could motivate Kyle to travel through time for her based on a single Polaroid. The second movie leans heavily on Sarah as a Mary, Mother of Jesus archetype who is literally raising the savior of humanity. Cameron had a million headshots in front of him. He picked Linda Hamilton because she embodied his conception of the ideal woman. So it’s not really surprising or weird that he got confused.
Great, now I’m picturing James Cameron masturbating….
Oh great, now I’m masturbating to that image of James Cameron masturbating!
Nit-pick of the day – unless I’m mistaken, it’s been 28 years since Hamilton played the character, not 18.
Super-nitpick, she voiced Sarah Connor in Terminator Salvation on some audio tapes Christian Bale listens to. So, technically about 10 years.
OH GOOOD for HIM!
It might not apply here as much, these two were adults, but my going assumption is that Hollywood types who want to date jump right into getting married. I’m guessing it’s out of some legal need or agency vs agency mash-up … or even just a way to try a relationship away from TMZ. “Let’s go out on dates together exclusively within out studios and mansions.” So, where normal people begin serious dating, the famous rich get married and sign pre-nups.
A quick marriage to a beautiful woman either means (1) he’s afraid she’ll find someone else if he doesn’t tie her down, or (2) she’s afraid she’ll never find another man with so much money.
Ron Perlman was making moves.
It definitely doesn’t apply here seeing as the story says they dated for six years before they got married, and didn’t start dating until several years after the first time they worked together.While I think that may be a reasonable impression overall, I wonder how much of that is because we only hear about the dramatic whirlwind courtships. A couple seeing each other for years and then getting married doesn’t make for the same tabloid fodder as running off to Vegas together the second shooting wraps.
“Now, she returns to the franchise to reprise Sarah Connor for the first time in 18 years with Terminator: Dark Fate.”Your math is blowing my mind right now
The writer time traveled from 2009.
and it was all for nothing. Everything is pretty much the same.Still no flying cars, just self-driving cars noone trusts.
“He’s right; I don’t trust it!”
Directors falling in love with their leading ladies is as old as movies. A particularly ‘Notorious’ example was Alfred Hitchcock. Steven Spielberg fell for Kate Capshaw. Joel Cohen fell for Frances McDormand. Roberto Rosselini fell for Ingrid Bergman. Luc Besson fell for Milla Jovich
“Steve, if you could choose between Marion Ravenwood and Willie Scott, which one would you pick?”
“Duh! Willie!”
We all fell for Milla Jovovich.
We all fell for Milla Jovovich.
We did not all fall for Mila Jovovich. I thought she seemed an unpleasant human.
@Mike D
Dario Argento fell for Asia Argento
Allen and Keaton
Oh, you might be right. He fell for her during one of the the pre-Annie-comedies.
Directing her in a stage play, I think.
Falling for the character they played is straight-up Rita Hayworth’s “Gilda” syndrome, though. I hope Hamilton had better luck with other relationships than Hayworth did.
And who fell in love with Edward Furlong? Nobody.
I get the impression that being married to Cameron would be exhausting.
Actualy he fell in love with your twin sister, but thru a series of hilarius mix-ups…
Cameron’s been married 5 times. Many of those were women he worked with:Kathryn Bigelow (Strange Days).Gale Ann Hurd (Terminator, Abyss)Suzy Amis (Titanic). She’s in excellent company.
Iwant to know what she did to get back into shape!