The action hero said that despite what he was told, his accent eventually “became an asset.”
However, the 76-year-old movie star and former governor tried hard to lose his accent as a young actor.
“The bottom line is, I worked on it,” theTerminatorstar told Norton.

Arnold Schwarzenegger.Eric Charbonneau/Shutterstock
“I remember he’d say, ‘You know you always says-ree.
Despite efforts to ditch his accent, Schwarzenegger acknowledged that it ultimately worked in his favor.
In particular, he highlighted two of his earliest successes.
Schwarzenegger spent time last week talking about his accent as well.
Not to make fun of it, but to actually entertain people with it.