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Radio 4,2 mins

Arnold Schwarzenegger: 'George Bush called me Conan the Republican’

The Film Programme

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Action movie stars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger talk to The Film Programme’s Matthew Sweet about how the politics of 1980s America was reflected in their films. Stallone remembers the stong Liberal opposition to him and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has now served two terms as Republican Governor of California, recalls how coming to the United States from Austria was a political awakening.

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