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Recently, Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed that he once hired an accent-removal coach to rid himself of his thick Austrian accent.
This is one of Arnold's most recognizable features, so that would've been a major mistake.
He revealed all about his coach on The Graham Norton Show, according to Variety.
Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about accent-removal coach
“I had an English coach and an acting coach and a speech coach and an accent-removal coach, who has passed away since then, but I should have otherwise gotten my money back,” the Terminator star said while reflecting on his early acting days. “The bottom line is, I worked on it. I remember he'd say, ‘You know you always say s-ree. It's three, with a T-H.' So he had me say, ‘Three thousand three hundred and thirty-three and one-thrid' with the T-H and not with the S.”
Norton congratulated Schwarzenegger on being able to pronounce “three” without his accent, and the bodybuilding champion said, “After 5000 years, right?”
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“The funny thing was all the stuff that they said, the Hollywood producers and the directors and all the geniuses were saying this was an obstacle for me to become a leading man, become an asset,” the actor said.
Meanwhile, the accent helped propel him to stardom as a leading man.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Hired an Accent Removal Coach After Directors Said It'd Ruin Leading Man Potential: 'I Should've Gotten My Money Back' https://t.co/2pCrPT45lu
— Variety (@Variety) October 31, 2023
“When I did Terminator, Jim Cameron said, ‘What made Terminator work and why it became successful is because Schwarzenegger talks like a machine,” Arnold recalled.
Luckily, Arnold Schwarzenegger stuck with the accent and never hired another coach to try to change it. It's one of his most defining characteristics that has made him a box office legend.
