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) 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