Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment Weekly 's free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more. The frequency of their appearances and placement in the show Hans and Franz often showed up during cold opens is incredible by today’s standards, in which big characters might appear only a. Watch the video above, and check out Schwarzenegger's episode of Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend in full once it drops Monday at midnight ET. In the podcast preview, O'Brien also shares details about another planned movie scene wherein Schwarzenegger's character attends a funeral and "starts doing lifts with the coffins." "Arnold had just parodied himself in Last Action Hero, so he opted not to do this one." "I guess when push came to shove, Arnold and these big movie stars have like six films in development at a time, then they have to decide what to do," Nealon said. The timing just never worked out, as Nealon told EW earlier this year. O'Brien, a former SNL writer, previously revealed that the original plan was to write a cameo role for Schwarzenegger in the film he penned along with Nealon, Carvey, and Robert Smigel, but when he revisited the script, he found that Schwarzenegger was "in it more than anybody," adding that they in turn "hung the entire project" on the star.Īrnold Schwarzenegger, Dana Carvey as Hans, Kevin Nealon as Franz during the 'Pumping Up with Hans & Franz' skit on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVEĪxelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Reggie Lewis/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank Arnold Schwarzenegger Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon as Hans and Franz on 'SNL' Schwarzenegger himself made two cameos in Hans and Franz sketches (first in 1988 and later in 1991) and also expressed an interest in co-producing and starring in the film adaptation that never came to be, a musical titled Hans and Franz: The Girlyman Dilemma. Hans and Franz, Austrian bodybuilder brothers and the supposed cousins of Schwarzenegger, made their character debuts on SNL during season 13 and appeared in a recurring sketch called "Pumping Up With Hans & Franz," where they would taunt viewers and guests as "flappy, pathetic losers." Nealon conceived of the characters after he watched a Schwarzenegger TV interview where the action star discussed his exercise methods.
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