Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, New Orleans LA, 2012. I was always a fan of Arnold. He woke up one day and said “I’m getting the fuck out of Austria,” and he made it happen. He started lift ing weights and took that all the way to become the Governor of California. I mean, it’s insane. His whole persona is larger than life. He possesses this undeniable force.So Arnold walked in from wherever he was, cigar in his mouth, in a T-shirt. He was this massive man, and we were shooting in an even more massive venue—this NASA facility where they built fuel cells for the Space Shuttle. It was the kind of room that would make almost anyone feel small...but not Arnold. He strutted in, looked around at all the women in this giant studio, and instantly, the air was sucked out of the entire venue. When Arnold shows up, you can’t help but wonder, “What am I doing here?” But once I got him focused, and he was trapped in my light, he was locked in to that moment.The lighting was essential on his chiseled face, but more importantly, his eyes—the power of those eyes. I lit him in a way that dramatized all of his features, a little low kick of light in his eyes that made them piercing and dynamic. You can’t even see his body, yet you can still feel the power radiating from his gaze. Show more