Schwarzenegger earned more than $40M payday for non-action movie
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Ever wonder which of his blockbusters netted Arnold Schwarzenegger his biggest payout?
True to form, Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen did when the body builder-turned action-comedy star appeared on his Bravo chat show on Monday night.
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When looking back on his five-decade career the 77-year-old revealed it was the 1988 comedy Twins that had him laughing all the way to the bank, dailymail.com reported.
“It was Twins because we had gotten no money, no salary,’ Schwarzenegger began to explain before Cohen chimed in, “You got a piece of the backend!”
“‘Exactly,” the actor replied. “And it was fantastic. We went all the way to the bank with that one.”
While he didn’t say the exact amount of his earnings, Schwarzenegger did say it it was well above $40 million when nudged by Cohen.
Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, 80, starred together in Twins, playing genetically engineered siblings who cross paths in adulthood.
The movie grossed more than $216 million and marked Schwarzenegger’s first comedic role.
Cohen then wanted to know if the actor “had ownership in Twins 2,” which never got made.
“We don’t have Twins 2,” said Schwarzenegger. “The sequel would have been called Triplets, and it was not done because the (Canadian-born) director Ivan Reitman passed away just before we wanted to start shooting the movie.”
Even bigger news, Schwarzenegger shared that Eddie Murphy had been tapped to play the third brother.
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