James Cameron's last wife as she is today:
Linda Hamilton
She looks as bad as Suzie Amis.
Wow, I though Keith Richards got a blonde haircut.
God bless her.
Did she have a life before she was Mrs. Cameron #5?
Linda Hamilton Spills About James Cameron’s ‘Titanic’-Sized Ego
Actress Linda Hamilton, one of James Cameron’s four ex-wives (!), reveals some of the many challenges in being married to the hard-charging director of ‘Avatar’, reports the Daily Mail.
“’Titanic’ was the mistress he left me for,” said Hamilton.
Hamilton starred as Sarah Connor in the first two ‘Terminator’ films and started dating Cameron during the early 1990s. He left Hamilton in 1997 for actress Suzy Amis who had a small role in his blockbuster ‘Titanic.’ He returned to Hamilton and they married but he left eight months later for Amis who is currently his wife. Cameron has a daughter with Hamilton and a son and two daughters with Amis.
“He was the kind of man who really would rather be at work with the mistress than at home with the wife,” said Hamilton. “That was hard to come to terms with.”
On the effect of the success of ‘Titanic’ on Cameron’s personality: “He was always a jerk, so there is no way to tell.”
An apology for publicly calling Cameron “a jerk”: “I love you terribly, Jim, and I’ll try to love you less terribly from now on.”
On work and women: “The woman he can’t get is always his dream girl. Work and women go hand in hand for Jimbo, and I should know.”
On her relationship with Cameron’s wife Suzy Amis: “It’s interesting because while he was making ‘Titanic,’ Suzy at that time was the gargoyle on the end of my bed, waiting to swoop in. Now I’m the gargoyle on her bed because for Jim, the one who doesn’t end up with him is always the one he wants. I’m the one who got away, and she has to live with that.”
On her reaction to not seeing a playback of a scene from ‘Terminator’: “But Jim said: ‘No time, got to move on.’ I went bonkers and I took him off the set to shout at him. But there was no ceiling, so everybody could hear us anyhow. I screamed at him: ‘If you want to see a human being on that set, treat me like a f*****g human being.’ He tried to calm me down, apologized, gave me a bottle of Champagne and got me back on set. Then he told the crew that he’d made me work up that rage to get a better performance from me. Bull! So the apology didn’t mean a thing. I thought: ‘You creep!’”
http://www.popeater.com/2010/02/06/linda-hamilton-james-cameron-ego/
Linda Hamilton & James Cameron
While he was making Titanic, and living with Linda, he fell for Suzy Amis, who had a small part in the movie. Later, torn between the two, he left Amis, went back to Hamilton and married her.
The marriage lasted just eight months before he went back to Amis; she is still with him and they have a son and two daughters.
It’s a fact that Cameron himself has an extraordinary capacity for remaining on good terms with his ex-wives. There are still family Christmases with Cameron at Linda’s Malibu home where all the ex-wives and extra children gather.
Does Suzy cope well with this? Linda, anxious not to be indiscreet but irreverent enough to say it anyway, silently mouths a big ‘no-no’ and indicates that Suzy clearly dislikes her.
‘But she doesn’t have the option of not having me in her life, so we all have to manage,’ she says, her voice rising in passion.
“It was terrible on every level. I wasn’t ready, he wasn’t ready. He was terribly insecure that I was going to ruin it for him somehow, which didn’t make sense since I am an actress in my own right and had been in front of the camera. It was dreadful,” she said.
“Jimbo gave me a big diamond but our marriage was all of nine months, the ring meant nothing to me and I gave it away.”
Hamilton said she hated accompanying her husband to awards ceremonies because their relationship was falling apart behind the scenes.
In an interview with The Lady magazine, the actress claimed: “The parading around, the lunches, the stress of being with Jim during the Titanic days - for years I could barely get make-up on, I was shaking so hard, because every damn award show we had was terrible.”