Schwarzenegger 'back' as Terminator

Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke about being ?back? as the Terminator in a new sequel to the sci-fi film series that made him famous and about how he?s still an action star at age 67.

In a promotional media conference in Paris late last week for ?Terminator Genisys,? the latest installment in the Terminator franchise, Schwarzenegger, revealed some secrets from the movie, which will hit screens this week in Scandinavia, Greece, Turkey and Singapore, and the rest of the world in early July.

First up, he told reporters he ?Got the phone call a month after I?d finished my governorship? - his seven-year stint running California, which ended in January 2011 - to return as the killer robot.

He then explained a key scene in the movie sees him fighting a younger version of himself.

In it, he is an older Terminator battling the one he played back in 1984, when the original ?Terminator? came out, a struggle made possible by the time travel conceit of the series - and modern special effects.

His appearance as a Terminator visibly three decades older was explained in a ?very well-written? way, he said.

The production hired a bodybuilder with ?a Mr. Universe physique? to play the younger version of Schwarzenegger in the fight and then spent a year using computer graphic overlays to make him look like the first Terminator.

?When I saw the movie for the first time three weeks ago I was literally blown away, to see myself fighting me and to see exactly the way I looked in 1984,? Schwarzenegger said.

He said his young face had to be recreated. Not ?one single frame? was taken from the first Terminator movie, because it is owned by a different production company, he explained.

?It was really extraordinary to...