This week, Chris Prentice returns to Frame Work to discuss the career of one of Hollywood’s brightest stars, the Austrian Oak, the Governator, the living embodiment of the American Dream realized, Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger. Primarily focused on his first ten years as a movie star, this is a wide reaching conversation of the man’s massive strengths and clear limitations, covering the meteoric rise, the lesser efforts, the unqualified masterworks, and the self-awareness that he used to build his celebrity. Who were his best villains? His best one-liners? Is he the true heir apparent to John Wayne? And Schwartz, cast here as the heretic, questions whether Arnold is even believable as a human being. He badmouths Predator here, folks. All that, and a surprising amount of time given to discussing the antagonist of Kindergarten Cop, Richard Tyson’s Crisp. Finally!

To hear more Frame Work, look for us on the podcast app of your choice (or scroll down this main page, there’s a lot of us on here at this moment), and you can listen to our ongoing discussions on David Fincher, Mare of Easttown and a bunch of other stuff like that. Just look for the artwork below. And coming soon, our Gone Girl episode.