Terminator's Linda Hamilton nearly retired before being cast in Stranger Things season 5: "I was tired of being tough"
It says something about the power of Netflix that one of Hollywood’s greatest action stars was considering retirement until she joined the Stranger Things season five cast. Linda Hamilton, who burst into pop culture as the iconic Sarah Connor in 1984’s The Terminator, was tempted to pass on future acting jobs – not because she wasn’t getting work, but because 40 years of action had taken its toll on her.
While she was on the press tour to promote season three of Resident Alien, people couldn’t help but ask Hamilton about getting cast in the upcoming final season of Stranger Things. Even though we don’t know much about it just yet – including when we’ll get to see it – it seems the show is always on our collective minds. When discussing being cast in Stranger Things season five (like the release date, her exact role hasn’t been revealed yet) Linda Hamilton admitted that she felt “like an actress getting her first meaningful part.”
That might seem odd, considering Hamilton has never really stopped working even when she hasn’t been in the spotlight, but it turns out she was privately talking about retirement at the time because she was “tired of being tough” and powering through the aches and pains that a lifetime of actions films inflict upon someone. “My hip was hurting for a couple of years and I was like, ‘I’m just so tired of being tough and I just want to be able to make plans and make sure I can be there,’ because actors never, ever can be there when they say they’re going to be there.”
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