“It’s done and I’m not in it,” Arnold told Parade. He explains that he told Sly in advance of the production that he was bowing out. “I said, ‘You know what, we have done this and I’m out of it.’ And he really understood.”
Arnold, deep in his second (and final) term as the governor of California, took an uncredited cameo as Trench Mauser in the 1st Expendables. “I did it as a favour to Sly,” he explains. “I shot it on a Saturday for two hours quickly in a church with Bruce Willis.”
After resuming his acting career out of office, he agreed to reprise the character in 2012’s The Expendables 2 and 2014’s The Expendables 3. “Sly said, ‘Oh, can you do Expendables 2?’ and I did that for a weekend,” Arnold recalls. “Then it was expanded for Expendables 3. And that was it.”
Still, he and Stallone do plan on flexing their muscles once more on the big screen: “We’re going to do something together one day.”
SAD. If there's Expendables 5, maybe Schwarzenegger and Stallone could come back as secondary characters with equal screen time, as Statham is now the main character. This could open up opportunities to better write the story of their friendship and rivalry in the Expendables universe.
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