Arnold Schwarzenegger: I would be a great American president

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To play this video, you need JavaScript enabled in your browser. < /figure>By Colin PatersonEntertainment Correspondent

"Go to the helicopter." "I'll be back."

It's 11:00 on a beautiful London morning and Arnold Schwarzenegger is a man who knows what people want. When I ask him if the current actors' strike means I'll have to be the one repeating his most famous catchphrases, he doesn't hold back.

The lines of Predator and Terminator resonate among the dumbbells and running machines. “The actors' strike prohibits you from promoting your films, but I am not obliged to promote them,” he protests.

Even at 76 years old , Schwarzenegger is not someone with whom one could discuss union fine print. This is where industrial action meets the action hero.

We are perched on adjacent gym benches filming an interview for BBC Breakfast at the Guardians Personal Training Centre, located at Parliament Hill Lido, and we have the place to ourselves. “A better gym than the one I had this morning at Claridge’s,” he bursts enthusiastically, while subtly letting me know that he’s already worked out today.

My cameraman Peter has written Arnold Schwarzenegger on his clapboard and turns to him asking with concern: "Please tell me I 'did I spell your name correctly?'

I can confirm that it even takes Arnold Schwarzenegger a good two seconds to check the spelling of his own name, before to look up and smile: “Yes.”

One ​​round of applause later and the interview can begin.