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John Connor / Edward Furlong
* Production took sufficiently long that Edward Furlong visibly aged during the shoot - he is clearly much younger in the desert, for instance, than in other scenes. His voice began to break and had to be pitched to one level in post-production.
* Most of Edward Furlong's voice had to be re-dubbed by Furlong again in post-production because it changed during shooting. His young voice is left intact only in the scene where he and Terminator are talking about why people cry, because James Cameron wanted it to sound dramatic and thought it was better if left intact.
Because Edward Furlong's voice grew deeper over the course of the 9-month shoot, dialog mixer Tom Johnson had to gradually raise his vocal pitch in order to maintain consistency.
* Because of Edward Furlong's small stature during filming, his stunt double, who was older and larger, used a bigger version of the dirt bike for filming the chase scene.
* At the beginning of the film, the LAPD records indicate that John Connor's arrest record is file #J66455705, and include allegations of trespass, shoplifting, disturbing the peace and vandalism.
* The video game John Connor is playing at The Galleria is Missile Command, a game where you are supposed to stop nuclear missiles from hitting cities.
* John's foster parents are named Todd and Janelle Voight. This means that if he'd legally taken their name, he would have been Jon Voight.
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Sarah Connor / Linda Hamilton
* The "forced medication" scene (Special Edition only) had to be re-shot several times because actor Ken Gibbel wouldn't hit Linda Hamilton properly with his nightstick. The scene was very physically demanding and Hamilton was furious with Gibbel because he repeatedly botched it. She got her revenge in a later scene where she beats Gibbel with a broken-off broom handle - the blows are for real.
* This is the second time that Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) kills a Terminator by pushing a machine control button. She does this in every Terminator movie she is in (she is absent from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)). Each time, the Terminator is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
* Linda Hamilton's twin sister, Leslie Hamilton Gearren was used as a double in scenes involving two "Sarah Connors" (i.e., when the T1000 was imitating her), and in a scene not in the theatrical release (but on the DVD) as a mirror image of Linda.
* According to James Cameron, Linda Hamilton suffered a permanent hearing loss in one of her ears during the elevator shootout because she had not installed her ear plugs after removing them during a trip to the restroom between takes.
* Linda Hamilton turned down a part in another movie after hearing a simple outline of the plot by director James Cameron. Hamilton's stunt double Maryellen Aviano can be seen as the woman next to the tourist photographer in the mall.
* Sarah uses the following weapons: - Colt 45 long slide auto - M4A1 Rifle (at Dyson's house and at the truck) - Remington A70 shotgun (mill) Prior to making this film, she received weapons training from technical advisor and former Israeli commando Uzi Gal.
* Director James Cameron campaigned unsuccessfully for Linda Hamilton to be nominated an Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Sarah Connor. Hamilton learned to pick locks for the scene in the mental hospital where she does precisely that with a paperclip.
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