For the first time in nearly three decades,Linda Hamiltonis playing the iconic role of Sarah Connor once again — and, more than ever, she’s hard at work to get into Terminator-killing shape!
Hamilton first starred as the character in 1984’sThe Terminator, which featuredArnold Schwarzeneggeras a time-traveling cyborg determined to kill the unsuspecting Connor before she gives birth to the man destined to save humanity from a robot uprising.
Now, inTerminator: Dark Fate, Hamilton is once again taking on a ruthless robot sent from the future — and, at 63, she’s trained far longer to prepare for this role than she did inJudgment Day.
“I worked for a year to get ready for this one,Dark Fate,”Hamilton tells PEOPLE.“Judgment Daywas maybe three months. But they kept postponing the filming.”
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Linda Hamilton inTerminator 2: Judgment Day.Everett
“InJudgment Day, it was just the beginning of the fat-free diet,” she continues. “I ate no fat for all those months. More than a year. I would never do that again, because the brain needs fat, the body needs fat. But we didn’t know any better.”
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Hunting down terminators is no easy work, so Hamilton spent a year training for the film.
“We worked on functional mobility,” she said. “Everything we did was with movement and trying to get the fast-twitch muscle going again, so that I could spring into action and turn, and run, and do the things that were required. So, the training was very different [toJudgment Day].”
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Just likeJudgment Day, Hamilton had to pick up a specialized diet, but this one was much different than the fat-free one she used for the previous film.
“This time, I ate no carbs. See, you always have to give up something!” she says while laughing. “But, obviously, the training is different as a woman of a certain age. I could work out just like I’d had forJudgment Dayand not put on the muscle because you need hormones for that, and I don’t got them!”
Terminator: Dark Fatehits theaters on November 1.
source: people.com
