“It’s hard to look around the corner when you’re getting shot at and look cool. You’ve gotta have a certain je ne sais quoi about yourself.” — “True Lies” …
and Jamie Lee Curtis starred in the original movie, but Howey, 45, said he never intended to imitate Schwarzenegger.
“’Conan The Barbarian,’ and those swords and sandals ’80s movies – that’s what I was into,” said Howey. “‘True Lies’ came out in the ’90s, and I was a huge fan of that movie. When this came around, the TV version, I was like ‘Wow, okay. They know I’m not an Austrian body builder, right?’ I’m not as buff [and I’m] a little bit taller. But, I know how to fight and where to shoot.”
Howey said that he and Gonzaga tried to make the CBS version of “True Lies” different from its big-screen predecessor.
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