He suggested that only one of them needed to manage the young actor’s career and the other could have continued working full-time. In 1992 we traveled 34 weeks out of the year.īut Ross argued that Furlong’s aunt and uncle were taking advantage of their nephew’s success. Eddie really wanted us to travel with him. Our phone bills were huge because I had to speak to Japan. We did an unbelievable amount of business in the house. It gets incredibly expensive to keep things looking like Eddie was becoming a star, like having nicer furniture, taking people out to dinner. They began battling the lawyer for access to Furlong’s money. Furlong’s aunt and uncle both quit full-time jobs to concentrate on managing their nephew’s career and found themselves strapped for cash. However, the court gave control of Furlong’s estate to L.A. Furlong remained in the custody of his aunt and uncle. Three months after the release of Terminator 2, the custody battle between Furlong’s mother and her siblings was ended. Cameron chose to use Furlong’s original dialogue for the scene in which John and the Terminator talk about why people cry because he thought Furlong’s young voice sounded more dramatic. Most of his dialogue had to be redubbed during post production to hide the fact that Furlong had aged during filming. I was amazed at his ability to put it behind him and perform.ĭuring the movie’s five-month shooting schedule, Furlong’s voice changed. Here was this kid who had never been on a movie set, subjected to five months of the most high-profile experience one could imagine, then not knowing who his legal guardians were. Both sides accused the other of not having Furlong’s interests at heart. Furlong’s mother fought her siblings to win back custody of her son. It turns out, no one was prepared for what was to follow.Īs soon as production began on Terminator 2, Furlong’s relatives got into a heated custody battle. When Furlong was cast, Cameron called his uncle and asked “Do you guys know what you’re getting into?” It was a very valid question. His mother was going through a difficult time and decided to let her son live with her siblings. I went in and kept reading lines, and eventually I got the part!įurlong was living with his aunt and uncle when he got the news. She didn’t tell me what kind of movie it was, so I went to the worst possible thing, so I said, “Sorry, I’m not into child porn.” She laughed and said it wasn’t child porn. This woman came up to me at the Club and asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. They had trouble finding someone in young Hollywood at the time to play John Connor, and I guess they were looking for “normal” kids. This time Schwarzenegger played a terminator robot sent back to protect Furlong from a killing machine.įurlong was only thirteen years old when he was spotted by a casting director while hanging out on the steps of the Pasadena Boys Club. In the sequel, Robert Patrick played an updated model that has been sent back in time to kill the future leader, played by Furlong. In the first movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger played a deadly cyborg sent from the future to kill Linda Hamilton, a waitress who would one day give birth to the savior of the human race. In 1991, in his movie debut, Furlong played the teenager who was destined to save humanity from the machines in James Cameron’s sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
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