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DECADES, BUT I NEVER SAW THIS ONE COMING. I NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE COMING BACK AS SARAH CONNOR.
What has happened to her since we last saw her in T2? Well, it’s 28 years [between the movies]! That’s a long time and a lot has happened. It was really up to me to take the constraints of the new story and then fill in those 28 years. It’s not just a question of, ‘Oh, this has happened…’ You want to fill in all the blanks. That’s the work that I have to do privately, to really create a backstory for myself that isn’t necessarily open on the screen, but that very much needs to be inside of me, to power the story and to power the character in the direction that she needs to go in it. Sarah is very unchanged in a way, but if you take the trajectory that she was on and expound upon that for 28 years then a lot is also different. She is very much the same passionate, crazy wild thing – because that’s how I look at her; as a wild thing – but the mission has changed. She is a woman without a country. We left the last one [T2] in a hopeful place, her and John hoping that they had changed the disastrous future that was headed our way. But at this point now she is very hopeless. As much as she carries on her mission against technology and machines, there is not a lot of hopefulness, or a love of humankind, in her any more – because mankind is ultimately responsible for its own demise. So, there’s not a lot of love in Sarah, just a lot of rage and drive and a need for vengeance, which is a new place that we haven’t seen her in before. This is Sarah, but not quite as you know her.
It’s been a long time since you were last Sarah Connor. How do you feel now that the movie is nearly ready to go out into the world? Very proud. And relieved [laughs]. This movie and this character are hard. Hard. But it was good, hard, dirty work.
When you were first approached, Tim Miller and James Cameron had a concept, but not a script. To say a provisional yes at the concept stage is a leap of faith. What made you take it? The fact that Jim [Cameron] was at the helm, even though remotely [as producer]. I really acknowledge that Jim was the major creative force in the first two movies and that his leadership, the overall concept of the franchise, is very important. But more than that, it was that so much time had passed and that although in some ways the character is the same, the situation has changed. There was new stuff to play. That’s what intrigues me, as an actress: the time that has passed and the potential to explore so much more. I never wanted to keep playing the same thing, with diminished returns. And here it was different. Here it was like, ‘Hmm… This is intriguing. Let’s see what we can do!’” What can you tell us about Sarah in Terminator: Dark Fate?
You’ve been instrumental in the arc of Sarah from the beginning, right? Yes, I was very instrumental in the shift between the Sarah of T1 and the Sarah of T2 because it was just sort of a little blank embryo from the first movie to the second. [When T2 was greenlit] I said, ‘Okay, we’re doing another one? Well then, this woman is mad in this one…’ She was out of her mind because she was the only one who knew how the future was going to unfold. For T2, I likened her, in my mind – and in asking Jim to create her – as John The Baptist, the wild man in the desert trying to tell people of the glory that is coming or – in her case – the disaster that is coming. That was the first thing I said to Jim before T2, before he went off to write it. I said, ‘Make her crazy.’ And he gave me an amazing canvass to paint that with. And that was a very complete character arc. So, after that movie, I was like, ‘Well, I don’t know if I’ve got anything more to say.’ But all these years later it turns out that there is more to say. And on this, although the story was essentially built, but not written, when they approached me, it was more about what I could contribute to elevate her. Not developing her so much, but just bringing 28 years of a hard life lived, of exploring her deepest sorrows, and what that brings to the screen. Because she is a broken woman when you meet her.
As we know, Terminator: Dark Fate is essentially T3, following on directly from the original two movies. But there was a third movie – Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines – back in 2003. Were you approached to be in that? And, if so, why did you decline?
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