the Hollywood system is full of naysayers. Their instinct would be to keep me in my lane, because that was the easiest thing for them to understand. Arnold is an action star, so send him scripts for more action movies. I couldn’t go to a bunch of executives and ask them to consider me for their next big studio comedy. If I wanted to star in a comedy, I would have to bring the project to them and make it impossible for them to say no. So that’s what we did.
