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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.

https://blog.esl-languages.com/blog/learn-languages/celebrities-speak-languages/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1f2d7e2/til_arnold_schwarzenegger_wasnt_allowed_to_dub/

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Arnold Schwarzenegger – English & German Arnie fact no. 1: He wanted to dub his own voice for German versions of the Terminator films, but the film studio thought his...
esl-blogger (ESL language studies abroad)
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malik
as a German growing up in the 80s it was even worse: I only learned in the late 2000s, why everybody in the US was mocking Schwarzenegger for his voice because I have never heard his actual voice before.

Suddenly, it all made sense. It became his trademark though.
Oliver Schafeld
There actually was a German #comedy show that turned the idea of a hyper-futuristic cyborg speaking Austrian dialect into a sketch.

Heeeere's the #Bullyparade's #Terminator sketch:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DZZIx5IYviI

(Don't expect too much 😅)

Here's the German dubbed original scene: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JdEmsnHl5xg
#comedy #bullyparade #terminator
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steffen
Arnie has lived in the United States for more than 50 years. But even from his English I (as a German) can still tell he is Austrian.
R. L. Dane
IIRC, he actually doesn't speak German in public because he's self-conscious about his accent and/or dialect (and/or the atrophy of his German language skills, I don't remember exactly).
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