Arnold Schwarzenegger was physically so massive during the filming of Terminator 2 that the custom-built minigun he carried in the Cyberdyne shootout scene had to be specially modified just so he could lift it.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger was physically so massive during the filming of Terminator 2 that the custom-built minigun he carried in the Cyberdyne shootout scene had to be specially modified just so he could lift it. The prop department took a weapon normally mounted on military helicopters and adapted it for a bodybuilder to fire from the hip, resulting in a gun so heavy that no other person on set could even pick it up. Hollywood loves to pretend that action stars are just regular relatable guys, but they literally had to invent new ways to hold aviation-grade weaponry because their lead actor was built like a brick outhouse. It is a beautiful tribute to the sheer excess of nineties action cinema, where the solution to every problem was just giving a larger-than-life Austrian man an even larger-than-life gun to completely obliterate a corporate lobby