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/
lol i called him a creep not knowing that linda hamilton did too
Wow... good for Linda!