Linda Hamilton’s just as much of a fighter as Sarah Connor in our book! Turns out the “Terminator: Dark Fate” star trained for a year to get back in robot-killing form for her reprisal of the character she first played in 1984’s original flick. As Linda, now 63, recently told People, she trained longer than she had for the first movie’s sequel, 1991’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” as well. “I worked for a year to get ready for this one, ‘Dark Fate.’ ‘Judgment Day’ was maybe three months. But they kept postponing the filming,” she explained. “In ‘Judgment Day,; it was just the beginning of the fat-free diet,” she noted. “I ate no fat for all those months. More than a year. I would never do that again, because the brain needs fat, the body needs fat. But we didn’t know any better.” For ‘Dark Fate,'” her training regimen involved what she described as practicing “functional mobility.” “Everything we did was with movement and trying to get the fast-twitch muscle going again, so that I could spring into action and turn, and run, and do the things that were required,” she continued. Her diet was, of course, different, too. As she mentioned, the world has figured out that fat-free eating doesn’t do much good for one’s health or figure. “This time, I ate no carbs. See, you always have to give up something!” she said with a laugh. “But, obviously, the training is different as a woman of a certain age. I could work out just like I’d had for ‘Judgment Day’ and not put on the muscle because you need hormones for that, and I don’t got them!” Linda and Arnold Schwarzenegger, 72, face off once more in “Terminator: Dark Fate” beginning Friday, Nov. 1.
