Arnold Schwarzenegger Honours Kirk Douglas

By News Helpline – 6th Feb 2020

Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas has passed away on 5th Feb 2020 at the age of 103. The entire film fraternity has poured in tribute to the most loved actor and producer. Action superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger, who once worked alongside Douglas, took some time to honor the late Hollywood icon by describing just how great of a mentor he was to him.

Arnold shared a length post on his social media profile and shared some on the candid pictures from the shoot “The Villain”.

The note read, "Kirk Douglas was an icon. It's hard to put into words what it meant to me to work with this legend who I grew up watching in Westerns in our little theater in Austria. He was larger than life to me - a real life hero. When we finally met on the set of The Villain, he couldn't have been any sweeter to me.”

“I was a new actor and he was the perfect mentor. He was already in his 60s but he was in unbelievable shape, and he could still jump off a trampoline into his horse's saddle. I'll always remember his lessons and our workouts together (back then actors trained secretly, so he'd pull his dumbbells out of his hiding place and we would do curls together)”

"He was the perfect role model and my career wouldn't have been the same without him. I will miss him dearly and my thoughts are with his family."

Schwarzenegger concluded his message, which was followed up by a thread of photos of the pair together.