Arnold Schwarzenegger might still be in good shape, but he’s finding it harder to do his own stunts.
“I’ll tell you one thing, to do all this action and the sword fighting and horseback riding and all this stuff is not as easy anymore today than it was 40 years ago,” the 79-year-old actor admitted during Wednesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live while confirming that he has sequels to Predator, Conan the Barbarian, and Commando in the works.
“You get older and you slow down a little bit,” Schwarzenegger continued. “Not very much. But still, I’m now at an age where it takes me an hour-and-a-half to watch 60 Minutes. Things are really slowing down.”
Even though he’s pushing 80, it doesn’t seem like Schwarzenegger has plans to retire any time soon — or quit the gym for that matter.
“I felt your body when you came out,” host Jimmy Kimmel told him. “It’s still hard as a rock.”
Schwarzenegger slyly replied, “I like the way you touch me.”
While Kimmel said he “enjoyed” the experience, he did “feel a little weird about it,” explaining why. “I bet in your whole life, because you got this incredible body and through hard work and all this stuff, but people probably feel comfortable just touching your body,” he said.
“I’m in heaven,” Schwarzenegger quipped in response, noting that he’s “absolutely” okay with it.
“How many people like to be touched, right?” the actor continued. “I go to the gym, I get touched all the time, which is perfectly fine with me.”
Schwarzenegger will soften up a bit in his next film, Prime Video’s upcoming The Man with the Bag, in which he plays Santa Claus. They filmed the movie, set to premiere on Dec. 2, in New York City, which, according to the actor, brought “great promotion” because of the paparazzi snapping photos. (Schwarzenegger joked that he bribed photographers with coffee and donuts to ensure they used the “good” photos of him.”) “When I shot the film, I thought it was a very entertaining and extraordinary film, really well directed by Adam Shankman and all of that stuff,” the actor explained. “I was so happy to do it and that Amazon asked me to do it. I wasn’t quite ready for the emotional ending that it had. It was really, really touching.”
Schwarzenegger continued, “Our movie is really good. We had a lot of fun filming it, obviously.”
