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Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese

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CHARACTER · THE TERMINATOR

Kyle Reese

Appears in
The Terminator (1984)
Played by
Michael Biehn

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Kyle Reese is a character in the film The Terminator (1984), played by Michael Biehn.

11 Interesting Facts About Kyle Reese

Interesting Facts (5)

  1. #001

    He nearly missed out on Kyle Reese in The Terminator (1984) because he used a Southern accent at his first audition. He had come straight from an audition for a stage production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and could not shake the accent, and the producers did not want Kyle Reese to sound regional. After calling and speaking with Biehn's agent, they brought him back for a second audition, and he won the part.

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  2. #002

    SERIES TRADEMARK: (around 36m) When Kyle Reese rescues Sarah Connor during the nightclub shootout, he says "Come with me if you want to live." It is also Michael Biehn's favorite line.

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  3. #003

    In the original Terminator film, Kyle Reese tells Sarah Connor: "Listen, and understand. That Terminator is out there, it can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop... EVER, until you are dead!" This movie repeats the quote almost word for word, but this time John Connor says it to Kyle Reese, with slight edits to reflect how the situation has clearly changed.

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  4. #004

    (around 57m) Having Kyle Reese walk to the wall and scream at it while Dr. Peter Silberman questions him was Michael Biehn's idea.

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  5. #005
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    Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) calls Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) "Reese" until the lovemaking scene that leads to the conception of John Connor. After that scene, she uses his first name.

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Production Story (1)

  1. #006

    (around 30m) Kyle Reese calls the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) a "skin job" in one scene, an allusion to Blade Runner (1982), in which Bryant (M. Emmet Walsh), Rick Deckard's (Harrison Ford's) superior, uses the term for the Nexus 6 cyborgs. Before Ford was cast as Deckard, Schwarzenegger was considered for the part.

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  1. #007

    (around 28m) The trick Marcus shows Kyle Reese for keeping a shotgun strapped to the arm is used by the older Kyle Reese, played by Michael Biehn, early in the original The Terminator (1984), after he saws off the stock to shorten the shotgun he stole from the police squad car.

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  2. #008

    (around 1h 20m) Just before setting out to rescue Kyle Reese, John Connor (Christian Bale) tells his wife, "I'll be back." The T-800 Terminators, both played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, spoke that line in The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Schwarzenegger's T-850 gives it a twist in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003): "I'm back!"

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  1. #009
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    In the underpass, Sarah Connor asks Kyle Reese, "Tell me about my son." The first thing Reese says is "He's about my height" — a subtle hint that Reese is John Connor's father.

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  1. #010

    (around 36m) Michael Biehn and Arnold Schwarzenegger share the screen only once: when Kyle Reese fires at the Terminator for the second time at Tech Noir. Their meeting in the factory is not with Schwarzenegger but with a metal puppet.

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  2. #011

    A shot of him as Kyle Reese in The Terminator (1984) was reproduced as the cover art for the video game Metal Gear (1987). Biehn was chosen as the model because he was then at the height of his fame, and had Metal Gear been an action movie, he would have been the ideal actor to play its protagonist, Solid Snake.

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