“She said to me, ‘Oh, you should make a movie with Arnold,’” he remembers. “And he said, ‘I would love to.’” The conversation, Verhoeven says, “went very well.” When he left Osteria Romana Orsini, he relayed the chance encounter to his wife. “‘Hopefully one day we could work together,’” Schwarzenegger told the director. Schwarzenegger chatted with Verhoeven long enough for his pasta to get cold and for the seeds to be planted for a future collaboration. It was just brilliant.” He remembers thinking, “I’ve gotta go over there and just tell him how much I enjoyed this movie.” It was so creatively done and I really got engaged. The director was coming off making RoboCop, which the Terminator himself naturally loved: “I thought that this idea of being a machine and all that stuff, we have done it, but it was a whole new spin. In between bites of pasta, Schwarzenegger noticed Paul Verhoeven at a nearby table. “He’s like, ‘Let’s go to this nice Italian restaurant,’” the actor says. The action hero was there only because his friend had suggested it. One day in the late 1980s, Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into Osteria Romana Orsini on Pico Boulevard in Beverly Hills and sat down for, possibly, the most fortuitous meal of his life.
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