Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis Amazon’s 2025 upfront presentation into a mini True Lies reunion.
While Schwarzenegger, 77, was on stage at the New York City event promoting his upcoming Prime Video holiday film The Man With the Bag, Curtis, 66, hilariously inched onto the stage to surprise her former costar. “This is elderly abuse,” Schwarzenegger quipped on Monday, May 12, as he and Curtis reunited.
Schwarzenegger later gushed about Curtis after she planted a kiss on his during the presentation, stating, “She still has it.”
The pair played husband and wife Harry and Helen Tasker in 1994’s True Lies. The action comedy, directed by James Cameron, follows Harry as he keeps his job as a spy a secret from Helen and their daughter, Dana (Eliza Dushku). After the couple are kidnapped by a dangerous terrorist organization, Helen learns of Harry’s true identity and joins him to take down the group.
“Let me just say this because I’m here with all y’all, because of this man, I have the career I have,” Curtis said of Schwarzenegger on Monday before opening up about how the Terminator star offered to share credit with her in the film’s marketing.
“I was at home and I got a phone call and it was James Cameron and Arnold, and Jim said to me, ‘Jamie, I’m sitting here with Arnold in my office. I’ve just shown him the movie. It’s about a married couple,’” she explained. “And in the contract it says Arnold Schwarzenegger in True Lies starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and Jim said to me on the phone, ‘I asked Arnold if I could put you above the title because it’s a movie about a marriage, and I think it would be appropriate,’ and Arnold, a figure who clearly did not have to say yes, said yes.”
The costars continued to show off their sweet bond in more pics from the event, including one Schwarzenegger smiling as Curtis kissed him on the cheek. “Some reunions hit different!” Amazon MGM Studios’ Instagram page captioned the pic, which Curtis also shared via her profile.
True Lies was later adapted into a TV series starring Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga as Harry and Helen, respectively. The show ran for one season on CBS in 2023.
While the movie remains a classic, it has also been wrapped up in some controversy. In 2018, Dushku, 44, alleged that she was molested by stunt coordinator Joel Kramer on the film, which he denied.
At the time, Curtis revealed in a Huffington Post op-ed that Dushku had “shared that story with me privately a few years ago” and that she was “shocked and saddened” by her former movie daughter’s claims.
Cameron, 70, also vocalized support for Dushku, stating at a Television Critics Association event at the time that if he had known about the alleged on-set molestation, “There would have been no mercy.”
The director added, “Eliza is very brave for speaking up and I think all the women who are speaking up and calling for a reckoning now. I think that has been an endemic through human systems, not just Hollywood, but because Hollywood deals with women who are victims 10, 15, 20 years ago who are famous today, so they get to have a louder voice when they come forward. So bravo to them for doing it. And I am glad Eliza did that.”
