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If you\u2019re a fan of 1980s<\/a> pop culture, and you want to make the coolest goddamn TV show, and you need a badass for your cast, who do you get? Linda Hamilton.<\/p>\n And so that\u2019s exactly what the Duffer brothers did. They went out, and they signed up a genuine trailblazer for women<\/a> in action movies, up there with Sigourney Weaver, really, the star of not just that first, jaw-dropping Terminator movie in 1984 but also the peerless T2: Judgement Day seven years later and 2019\u2019s Terminator: Dark Fate too.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hamilton duly joined the fifth season of Stranger Things, currently on literally everyone\u2019s television in the whole wide world, and professed that not only was she a big fan of the show, but that the Duffer brothers had personally expressed how excited they were at the prospect of her signing up, because why wouldn\u2019t they be?<\/p>\n Eagle-eyed viewers will know how much James Cameron\u2019s prescient action franchise has influenced the Duffers, with little easter eggs scattered about, including a cinema in Hawkins, Indiana, playing the first movie, and season three\u2019s Russian assassin, Grigori, being heavily influenced by the robotic Mr Schwarzenegger as the anti-hero himself. The brothers also cited T2 <\/a>as one of the ten films that everyone should watch before beginning the fifth and final season of their Netflix<\/a> smash.\u00a0<\/p>\n While Hamilton is undoubtedly best known for her work on those films, she\u2019s been involved in several major projects over 40 years; she won Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for the \u201880s TV show Beauty and the Beast, and many years later appeared regularly in hit series like Chuck and Weeds. But like many actors, especially those who have been around a long time, she has made a few movies she is not quite as fond of. <\/p>\n Back in the day, she said, \u201cWhat can I say about King Kong Lives! I was stunned when I saw it. It was the most ridiculous movie. I took the part because Dino\u2019s (producer Dino De Laurentiis) original didn\u2019t hurt Jessica Lange\u2019s career. While we were filming, I never saw one full-size Kong, only a hand or a foot, as I was acting against huge blue screens most of the time. As for Mr Destiny, it was another mediocre movie. I\u2019ve had more than my share of those.\u201d<\/p>\n But she reserved most of her ire for a movie that she made in the same year she broke through with the original Terminator movie<\/a>, an adaptation of a horror-packed short story featuring a shitload of creepy kids.<\/p>\n She added, \u201cNothing has beaten Stephen King\u2019s Children of the Corn yet, which still haunts my past as the worst film I\u2019ve made. Can you believe they\u2019re making a sequel? They didn\u2019t dare ask me to reprise that role!\u201d<\/p>\n Despite getting very mixed reviews from critics, Children of the Corn was actually a fairly sizable hit on release in 1984, pulling in almost five times its budget at the box office and spawning not just the sequel that Hamilton referenced, but a franchise that had reached ten different instalments by 2023 and the release of the most recent film. <\/p>\n