Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Netflix co-star thrilled to be reunited after their first team-up ended in utter disaster

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The excitement is running high for next week’s debut of FUBAR, the action-packed Netflix spy series that marks Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s first-ever leading role in a small screen project.

That hype was only increased after the legendary action star essentially confirmed the show to be a spiritual successor to the classic blockbuster True Lies, and it would be safe to assume at the very least the episodic adventure is going to be at least 10 times superior to the recent reboot of the James Cameron favorite that was axed before the end of its first season.

Having already appeared in one of the year’s best televised efforts via The Last of Us, Gabriel Luna will be looking to maintain his 100 percent success rate, especially when his previous collaboration with Schwarzenegger ended in disaster. The actor had the misfortune of playing the primary antagonist of the ill-fated Terminator: Dark Fate, but in an interview with ScreenRant, he seemed more concerned about reuniting with the Austrian Oak than trying to one-up their previous team-up.

“My favorite parts are always the time we spend away from work. Back in Terminator it was all about our physique, all about training, I got to see him in the light of his first great success as the world’s greatest bodybuilder, and so we’re utilizing a lot of that with the work we were doing in Terminator. We got to train together, and you got to see him in that way. And we had pumping iron on a loop in the gym for six months. So you got to absorb all that.

Then in this one, we’ve both grown in our relationship, and we got to actually act together. It wasn’t all communication through our mutual mechanical violence. It was two humans who care about each other, have problems with each other, and trying to figure it out. That was what was lacking in the first time we worked together, and this time, we got to get to do that. It was great.”

Seeing as Dark Fate lost $120 million at the box office and hammered yet another nail into the coffin of the Terminator saga, it wouldn’t be hard for Luna and Schwarzenegger’s sophomore partnership to outdo the previous one, but let’s just hope FUBAR delivers the goods as a standalone spy caper when it arrives on Netflix next Friday.

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