Brendan Fraser, a Canadian-American actor, won the best actor Oscar for his role in The Whale at today’s event in Los Angeles. There is always a unique aspect of each film Fraser appears in that draws in his fans. While Fraser starred as an overweight guy in the psychological drama film The Whale, where he wore up to 300 pounds of prosthetics to depict an overweight man, he played a caveman who stumbled into the 1990s in the 1992 comedy film Encino Man. There’s always a compelling aspect to every film in which Fraser appears. They had to make a lot of concessions in order to include a famous sequence from the film Terminator, which featured the lines of the bodybuilding great Arnold Schwarzenegger.

According to a Slashfilm report, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous phrase from The Terminator was requested to be included in the film Encino Man. Brendan Fraser, the most recent winner of the Academy Award, utilized the phrase. While he was completely new to the Hollywood industry, his first film, The Encino Man, was a huge success.

How did they get to use the iconic line of Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Brendan Fraser, then a relative unknown in Hollywood, had his big break in the Encino Man. The idea of someone who, after two million years in an ice block, suddenly finds themselves in 1990s Los Angeles was not novel, but it did intrigue viewers. His fictitious character, Link, also repurposed the iconic “I’ll be back” line from the first Terminator film from 1984. This was a very topical allusion, considering the previous year had seen the release of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the sequel to 1984 original. Legend  The line was certainly famous since it was spoken by none other than the legendary Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film about future cyborgs invading our contemporary world, while the caveman from Encino Man was the exact opposite.

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As reported by Splashfilm, Les Mayfield and screenwriter George Zaloom met with Dan Halsted, once the senior vice president of production at Disney’s Hollywood Pictures, to talk about this specific sequence. Halsted presented their concept to Jeffrey Katzenberg, then the chairman of Disney. After gathering the necessary information, Katzenberg called Schwarzenegger’s agent to get permission to use the catchphrase, “I’ll be back”. Zaloom overheard Katzenberg and Schwarzenegger discussing this after a while. To everyone’s relief, the bodybuilding icon ultimately sanctioned the Encino Man’s use of his catchphrase.

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How did the movie do?

As a result of the legend’s approval of the use of the “I’ll be back” moment in The Encino Man and many other elements, the film was undoubtedly a box-office success. As Link (Brendan Fraser) leaves a drug store, he turns to the owners of the store and uses the famous Arnie line. There was no follow-up to “The Encino Man,” sadly. Despite earning a respectable $40 million at the box office on a $7 million budget, the caveman comedy was blasted by critics.

In an interview with GQ, Brendan Fraser talks about how he relates himself to the character he played in Encino Man, ‘Link’ as he says, “When my father’s work had us traveling every three, four years somewhere new, the Midwest, parts of Europe, parts of the Northwest, Seattle, I went to school in Toronto. Whether I felt like I belonged or didn’t, I knew that I felt, I felt comfortable in my own skin, because when you’re the new guy, you gotta find a way to fit in instantly. It’s just a basic survival tactic that we all have.”

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Have you watched the movie, Encino Man? If you recall the iconic scene, what do you think of it? Let us know in the comment section.