'Arnold' (2023) Documentary on Netflix: the most intimate side of the star

Arnold is a documentary series directed by Lesley Chilcott and narrated by Arnold Schwarzenegger himself.

A competitive maniac? An inordinately ambitious man? Arnold is a documentary series in three episodes in which we will be able to meet him in the three most outstanding aspects of his life: the athlete, the actor, and the citizen.

In the wake of others who made the leap from show business to politics, the two great American passions, comes the authorized story of a living legend. If Ronald Reagan and Shirley Temple did it, why wouldn’t this hungry-for-success Austrian immigrant achieve it?

A series narrated in the first person by Schwarzenegger himself in which we will also be able to meet some of his most endearing co-workers such as Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis or Sylvester Stallone, no less… and with some of the directors who had the pleasure of work with him, like James Cameron or Ivan Reitman.

Do you want to meet the most intimate, fanatical, calculating and also the most humane Schwarzenegger? Arnold offers us the possibility so that anyone who wants to know can enjoy this stupendous documentary about an already emblematic figure of Hollywood… and of American politics.

Arnold has the virtue of, in these three aspects, offering an accurate story and, apparently, not sweetened at all: the actor, politician and athlete doesn’t hesitate to tell his miseries and his manias and tell us in the first person the defects of his character and how, despite them or precisely thanks to them, he became the symbol that he is currently for many.

A sincere and direct documentary that will allow us to get to know the man behind his many faces by the hands of the greatest authority on the matter: Schwarzenegger himself.

Already in the first scene we see him smoking one of those big cigars that he likes so much at this time when apparently everyone has already stopped smoking.

A guy from another era to whom we thank for his sincerity and his confessions.

Ladies and gentlemen, behold the American dream. May you enjoy it.