But interestingly enough, Jim had nothing to do with me doing the book. In his autobiography Total Recall, Schwarzenegger penned, One day the cougar was lounging at the back of the RV when I stood up and walked toward the front. Born in 1947 in defeated Austria, he is, as he once admitted, an unrepentant admirer of Hitler's oratory, and while still a teenager after experimentally crashing some tanks during his military. The recording was for 4-5 days, they were long days because it was a very long book. I did it in my own voice, and I hope that his voice came shining through the words. I thought it was a very entertaining book, very interesting, and of course there's a temptation when you're recording to do Arnold's voice because his voice is so distinctive, but I got over that temptation really quickly because it would have been a bad choice to make. It actually didn't have anything to do with Jim Cameron, oddly enough, but with the publishers and the producers on this project. Stephen Lang: "It was very interesting, and I've done many, many audiobooks over the years, and Arnold wrote this book but didn't really want or have the time to record his autobiography. And with his steroidal forthcoming autobiography, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story. How was that experience to voice Arnold's life-story and did James Cameron recommend you to Arnold for the book? Arnold Schwarzenegger never does anything small: muscles, movies, extramarital affairs. TheArnoldFans: I listened to Arnold's TOTAL RECALL, which you narrated.
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