Terminator 2: This legendary scene is one of the most appreciated, and yet many fans have never noticed this little detail that makes all the difference

Robert Patrick may have walked his silhouette on the screen for almost forty years now, and have a regular career, certainly in a sawt of a saw, he will forever remain the famous and terrifying T-1000 in liquid metal which gives so much a hard time-without a bad words-to our favorite arnnie in Terminator 2; This sf totem signed James Cameron which remains absolutely unsurpassable.

A role so strong, moreover, that it will take several years to bounce back. “I had a lot of trouble finding work because people only saw me in this role. It must be said that this is such an iconic character!” He confided to us when we met him in 2017. And to say that at the origin, it was a question that it was the singer Punk Billy Idol who embodies the T-1000. We pinch ourselves to believe it …

Pump eyes

If the T-1000 seems so frightening and disturbing, it is partly due to a very specific characteristic, its famous mechanical approach and its way of running, with open hands. “I was asked to create an approach which should have looked very effective, which goes straight to the point and which had to give the impression of seeing someone very evolved. And that ended up what we can see on the screen. The T-1000 always had a target well in sight” told the actor in 2016 at the microphone of Conan O'Brien Show.

Hence this brilliant sequence of chase between him and John Connor who tries to escape, and especially who goes slower than him! But there is more: a fixed and terribly disturbing look, which is observed during his very first confrontation with the T-800 in the shopping center. At no time does he blink when he pulls on him in the corridor scene, only again for fun.

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“I also studied the way of moving many animals to find the right way to walk. I wanted to show, by movement and gaze, that the T-1000 never took my eyes off his goal, which he pursued. I notably inspired myself with the eyes of the Eagles and this way of looking with the head a little lowered” he confided.