# Casting call—actors who'd make good Terminators? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587 "2008-03-08T13:30:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/21 "2008-03-08T21:48:14Z")
I know it’s silly, but I like the T-800s with their bulky endoskeletons. I vote for [Brian Urlacher](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Urlacher). ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/22 "2008-03-08T21:54:18Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] No, seriously, no one’s mentioned Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson? [/QUOTE] :smack: Perfect. The Rock is actually a good actor, and he whupped some major ass in Walking Tall. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/23 "2008-03-08T22:40:34Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] :smack: Perfect. The Rock is actually a good actor, and he whupped some major ass in Walking Tall. [/QUOTE] He’s too good an actor. What’s needed is a talentless, stone faced drone. Nicolas Cage. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/24 "2008-03-08T23:24:11Z")
[Brian Thompson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Thompson_%28actor%29). I’ve met him, and he is so unbelievably imposing. But he’s a nice and funny guy. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/25 "2008-03-09T00:12:44Z")
Vinnie Jones. He’s able to deadpan some pretty funny lines, too. [http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0376994/staging10.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0376994/Ss/0376994/staging10.jpg.html%3Fhint%3Dgroup&h=135&w=101&sz=70&tbnid=V0FX6-6z7eMJ:&tbnh=135&tbnw=101&sa=X&oi=image\_result&resnum=1&ct=image&cd=2](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0376994/staging10.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0376994/Ss/0376994/staging10.jpg.html%3Fhint%3Dgroup&h=135&w=101&sz=70&tbnid=V0FX6-6z7eMJ:&tbnh=135&tbnw=101&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image&cd=2) Of course my answer to pretty much any question is Vinnie Jones, so take that with a grain of salt. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/26 "2008-03-09T02:37:41Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Nicolas Cage. [/QUOTE] I thought about Cage, but it wouldn’t work. He’s a hell of a fanboy, and he’d just ham up the screen (poorly) like he did in Ghost Rider. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/27 "2008-03-09T02:48:59Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] I thought about Cage, but it wouldn’t work. He’s a hell of a fanboy, and he’d just ham up the screen (poorly) like he did in Ghost Rider. [/QUOTE] Nothing a little thorazine couldn’t take care of. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/28 "2008-03-09T03:05:54Z")
Betty White is my answer for the 80 year old female terminator. I think she’d be a blast. As far as a musclebound Arnold lookalike, I’d go for Ralf Mueller. He appeared in Gladiator with Russell Crowe and I think he’d do very well. ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/29 "2008-03-09T04:26:03Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] No, seriously, no one’s mentioned Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson? [/QUOTE] That’s precisely who I came in here to name. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/30 "2008-03-09T05:06:25Z")
Dakota Fanning. Talk about your stealth terminator. Tris ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/31 "2008-03-09T05:27:38Z")
Robert Englund would be a perfect Terminator… He could gain your trust like “Willie” from the “V” TV series, then when it came time to Terminate, he could go full-hog into “Freddy Krueger” persona ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/32 "2008-03-09T05:30:25Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] [Brian Thompson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Thompson_%28actor%29). I’ve met him, and he is so unbelievably imposing. But he’s a nice and funny guy. [/QUOTE] I came in here just to post that. Thompson is badass. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/33 "2008-03-09T06:49:13Z")
How about one of the guys from [The Road Warrior](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082694/)? ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/34 "2008-03-09T14:39:44Z")
Glen Thomas Jacobs, Better known to the wrestling fans as Kane. He’s been in his own horrible horror movie, but he actually did a decent job acting in it. He’s got the size, and imposing look without being a body-builder type. While I’m nominating wrestlers, Mark William Calaway, the undertaker would also do incredibly well. For the stealth version, David Hyde Pierce gets my vote, along with Hugh Laurie. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/35 "2008-03-09T18:56:12Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] :smack: Perfect. The Rock is actually a good actor, and he whupped some major ass in Walking Tall. [/QUOTE] The Rock would actually work as a reprogrammed “good” terminator, too, like Arnie in T2. I don’t know about Hugh laurie as a Terminator. If I saw someone who looked like Dr. House approaching me, I’d run like hell. 😃 Who wants to deal with some hobbling, cranky ass? Robert Sean Leonard would work though, everybody’s friend, good ol’ Dr. Wilson. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/36 "2008-03-09T20:50:36Z")
And for the comedy version of Terminator (maybe directed by Barry Sonnenfeld), there’s always Patrick Warburton. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/37 "2008-03-09T20:55:19Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] How about one of the guys from [The Road Warrior](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082694/)? [/QUOTE] Hegstrand’s dead but I could see Laurinaitis in the role. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/38 "2008-03-10T01:39:27Z")
Don Knotts would make a good terminator in a logical loop. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/39 "2008-03-10T01:44:14Z")
Hilary Swank. Once the Next Karate Kid, more recently the Million Dollar Baby, and something of a stern masculine appearance. I could see her as a Terminator. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587/40 "2008-03-10T03:10:32Z")
Heh. Almost forgot one…[Neal McDonough](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568180/). I mean, the guy looks like Roy Baty to begin with. Fairuza Balk could probably work, too. Maybe it’s her eyes…or that aforementioned [face-tearing-off-with-her-teeth](http://www.actressarchives.com/display.php?img=4414&return=%2Ffairuza%2Findex.php%3Fpg%3D2) quality that shines though so well. [QUOTE=GuanoLad] Hilary Swank. Once the Next Karate Kid, more recently the Million Dollar Baby, and something of a stern masculine appearance. I could see her as a Terminator. [/QUOTE] [Copy that, Houston.](http://amysrobot.com/files/hilary_swank_running.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-call-actors-whod-make-good-terminators/440587.md?page=3)