Terminator: Linda Hamilton claims James Cameron was ‘in love with Sarah Connor’ during their marriage

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Linda Hamilton has suggested that filmmaker James Cameron was in love with her Terminator alter ego Sarah Connor during their “terribly mismatched” marriage.

The pair, who met on the set of 1984’s The Terminator and began a relationship after the filming of 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, were together for eight years, marrying in 1997 but divorcing two years later. They had one daughter together.

Speaking to the New York Times while promoting the forthcoming sequel Terminator: Dark Fate, Hamilton said that the pair’s relationship “was a mystery to all of us – even Jim and myself – because we are terribly mismatched. I used to say we fit together like a puzzle. Everywhere he’s convex, I’m concave.”

She added: “I think what happened there is that he really fell in love with Sarah Connor. And I did, too… But I’m so glad to be free of [the relationship]. I would never, ever put that much energy again into something that is not working.”

Approached for comment, Cameron told the newspaper: “I fell in love with [Hamilton] initially because I thought she was a little closer to Sarah than she actually is, but that doesn’t mean that much once you get to know somebody. I think we were just in this high-velocity spiral around each other for a long time. We were fascinated by each other.”

Terminator: Dark Fate, which sees Hamilton return to the franchise 18 years after Judgment Day, is released on 23 October.