T-1000 played Kyle Reese in "The Terminator", in the role with the explanation that Skynet managed to acquire Reese's DNA and use it for a new Terminator. Cameron ultimately dropped this idea after deciding the audience would find it too confusing: eventually casting came down to Robert Patrick, as a deliberate contrast to the original Terminator - Cameron stated "I wanted to find someone who would be a good contrast to Arnold. If the 800 series is a kind of human Panzer tank, then the 1000 series had to be a Porsche." For a more machine-like performance, Patrick had to learn
Terminator (character concept) high-ranked politicians with a promotional video in which a character named Chief Master Sergeant William Candy (played by Schwarzenegger, but overdubbed with a thick Southern US accent) explains that he was chosen to be the model for the Terminator project. When one of the politicians questions the appropriateness of Candy's Southern accent for the Terminators' voice, another scientist (overdubbed with Schwarzenegger's voice) replies "We can fix it". As seen in the movies, a Terminator can withstand standard 20th century firearms, crash through walls intact, and survive explosions to some degree. Repeated shotgun blasts have enough force to knock it down