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) 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,