Two decades after arnold schwarzenegger was the subject of a harsh report published by the Los Angeles Times in which the testimony of six women who claimed to have been groped and humiliated by the actor was collected, the star of Austrian origin has intoned the mea culpa in the documentary series ‘Arnold’which premiered on Netflix on June 7.
Mea culpa in extremis
At the time of the allegations, which came to light five days before the California gubernatorial election he went on to win in 2003, Schwarzenegger denied the greatest. Now, in the production of Lesley Chilcott, the former “governator” has admitted that it was inexcusable and, quite simply, “bullshit”.
“My reaction at first was more or less … defensive. Today, I can look back and say, it doesn’t matter when it happens. Whether it was Muscle Beach days 40 years ago or now, that was wrong. It was a shit. Forget any excuses, it was wrong.”
In the same documentary, reporter Carla Hall of the LA Times underscores her surprise that the publication not affect the electoral process at alland remember how the story that ended up making it to the medium came about.
“Personally, I was surprised that it didn’t have a bigger effect on the election. I thought more people would be offended. When Schwarzenegger announced he was running for governor, the LA Times team immediately went to work investigating stories we’d been hearing for years, but which no one had delved into. We had just six weeks to work on it, and we started talking to women.”
The existentialist chuache
In another order of things, in addition to verifying that the interpreter seems to be a man with a correct perception of the concept of good and evil, this very week we have learned that it is tremendously skeptical and does not digest very well the fact that we are all going to die eventually.
In an interview with the Interview medium, he is asked a clear and concise question: “What does the future hold for us?” Good old Arnie doesn’t hesitate to give it a metaphysical spin to affirm that anyone who believes that there is life after death is “a fucking liar”.
“It reminds me of the question Howard Stern asked me: ‘Tell me, Governor, what happens when we die?’ I said, ‘Nothing. You’re six feet under. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a fucking liar. We don’t know what happens with the soul and all those spiritual things in which I am not an expert, but I know that the body that we see right now, we will not see it like this again”.
In addition, he hinted at a certain envy towards the people who they do believe in an afterlife and that, in a certain way, they can better digest these existentialist themes.
“Except in some fantasy, when people talk about it and say ‘I’ll see you again in heaven’, it sounds too good, but the reality is that we won’t see each other again when we’re gone. That’s the sad part. I know that Some people are comfortable with the idea of dying, but I’m not.”
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