Trivia: The guard (who gets the poker cup) played by the Stanton twins, is named Lewis. In their previous role, "Gremlins 2: The New Batch", Dan played a scientist named Lewis (with Don playing his twin, Martin).
Trivia: After the T-1000 pushes the T-800 through the window in the mall, the blonde woman besides the guy with the camera was a Linda Hamilton stunt double.
Trivia: When the biker stubs his cigar out on the Terminator's chest, Arnie's protection was only a small block and piece of fake skin the size of a dime, so the actor had to be very careful to avoid burning him.
Trivia: Whilst filming the scene where she is firing a gun inside an elevator, Linda Hamilton forgot to insert her ear plugs, which resulted in her suffering permanent hearing damage in one ear.
Trivia: Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $15 million for his role as the T-800 in this movie, despite having only 700 words of dialogue.
Trivia: Jenette Goldstein, who plays the Janelle Voight role, was also in Aliens and Titanic, among other James Cameron films.
Trivia: Edward Furlong's first movie and first acting experience ever.






Answer: In addition, another deleted scene shows that the T-1000 was damaged by being frozen and thawed and was having difficulty maintaining form. He wanted to be sure he wouldn't mess it up.
LorgSkyegon
What's especially odd about the scene is that both examples we gave to help answer this question were actually deleted from the original release. When I first saw this movie in the theater when it was released I had the exact same question, it wasn't until I saw the Special Edition with the deleted scenes reinserted that it made sense.
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