Terminator 2: Judgment Day the legal gridlock. The end of the legal disputes coincided with the willingness and availability of Cameron, Schwarzenegger, and Hamilton to participate in the sequel; Schwarzenegger, who portrayed the Terminator in the first film, commented: "I always felt we should continue the story of "The Terminator", I told Jim that right after we finished the first film." He and Hamilton reprised their respective roles from the first "Terminator" film. After an extensive casting search, 13-year-old Edward Furlong was selected from hundreds of candidates to portray John Connor; Robert Patrick was chosen to play the T-1000 Terminator because his agility would
Terminator (character concept) different appearances from Schwarzenegger, the T-70 from "" and the female I-950 from "". Terminator (character concept) In the "Terminator" film series, a terminator is an autonomous killer robot, typically humanoid, originally conceived as a virtually indestructible soldier, infiltrator and assassin. James Cameron introduced the first Terminator character in the 1984 film "The Terminator", featuring a single android simply called "The Terminator", portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When later "Terminator" films introduced additional models, some sources retroactively gave Schwarzenegger's character a model number, leading to multiple conflicting names. In the "Terminator" universe, a Terminator is a relentless cyborg assassin and soldier,