Arnold Schwarzenegger hums a comeback tune
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He took a gig in ‘The Expendables’ because pal Sylvester Stallone asked him to, but was it also a trial balloon for a return to Hollywood?
Arnold Schwarzenegger went right for the big question, if not the big answer, at the Critics Choice Awards last night (video above) with a joke from the stage about why he had come to the Hollywood ceremony. ‘I stand before you not as a former governor...I came here for one reason and one reason only -- as an unemployed actor begging for work.’
He then stayed on the subject with a series of jokes about the parts he didn’t get in 2010, including the best of the bunch, Colin Firth’s stuttering royal in ‘The King’s Speech.’ ‘If they wanted someone who had trouble speaking English, why pick Colin Firth? I mean, I invented not speaking English properly.’
Schwarzenegger has been playing a Brett Favre-like game of will-he-or-won’t-he for a while now, most recently telling Variety that he’d like to come back and comparing acting to riding a bike.
The former governor hasn’t had anything more than a cameo since his performance in the third ‘Terminator’ film in 2003. But as we reported back in the spring, there are more than a few producers in town who would invite him to star in a movie. And with all the references he’s been making to acting lately, the onetime action star may just be waiting for an invitation.
--Steven Zeitchik
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