Linda Hamilton

There's an interesting article about Linda Hamilton in The New York Times - Linda Hamilton Fled Hollywood, but ‘Terminator’ Still Found Her. It's about the upcoming Terminator movie, produced by James Cameron (Titanic, Avatar, Aliens), and the iconic character Hamilton has played in the Terminator films, Sarah Conner.


- Sarah in T2

I think Conner is much more of a feminist Icon than other more recent female movie leads like Wonder Woman - she's not a goddess, she has no super powers, she's very human and flawed, a single mom who must remake herself to rise to the occasion of impending apocalypse.

And in this latest Terminator film, she's ... get ready for it ... old! ;) Yes, Sarah Connor gets old and it's not treated as an embarrassing moral failure on her part which renders her unfit for mating, it's treated as the normal result of a woman managing to survive over time. Nice to see that reflected in a movie for a change. As the Times article quotes James Cameron ...

Cameron said that “what’s really cool about it is that a major action picture has been hung on an actress who’s 62.” He was also heartened by the success of a 59-year-old Jamie Lee Curtis as a gray-haired Laurie Strode in last year’s “Halloween” revival. “I think you could cite the examples of that kind of chance being taken previously on one finger.”

Here's a trailer ...