In 1991, Linda and Leslie Hamilton filmed one of the final scenes of James Cameron's classic science fiction film.
The American actress Linda Hamilton is universally known for playing the character of Sarah Connor, the mother of John Connor, the leader of the human resistance in the war that is unleashed against the machines after the nuclear holocaust, in the “Terminator” film saga. according to the mythology created in the 80s by director and screenwriter James Cameron.
However, few know that James Cameron himself, taking advantage of the enormous physical similarity between the two, used Linda Hamilton's twin sister, Leslie, to film one of the final scenes of his praised 1991 film “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” ”, when the lethal polymimetic alloy known as T-1000 took the form of Sarah Connor to trick her son John into killing him.
That scene, in any case, would be Leslie Hamilton's only flirtation with the world of cinema, since she was a nurse for much of her life, dying of cardiac arrest in 2020 at the age of 63, and leaving behind three children and two grandchildren.
As for her famous twin sister, Linda Hamilton, the general public last saw her in 2019, when she once again played Sarah Connor in the film “Terminator: Dark Fate,” where she appeared avenging the death of her son before the machines commanded by Skynet artificial intelligence.