He had the presence, the body, the facial bones... but I never found the guy attractive, personally.
The best he ever looked, IMO, was in the second half of The Terminator, when his hair and eyebrows got singed: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/PY7PT6/original-film-title-the-terminator-english-title-the-terminator-year-1984-director-james-cameron-stars-arnold-schwarzenegger-credit-orion-pictures-album-PY7PT6.jpg
Not even in total recall?
shareHe put on a pair of speedos for a scene in "Commmando" (1985) and stopped doing that after a few more films(rather like Sharon Stone doing nude scenes early on and then quitting them -- til she needed them.)
So certainly Arnold had a BODY that chicks dug -- and some men of a certain type, too, yes?
So from the neck down...attractive.
The accent was attractive too -- it sounded FUNNY -- amusing -- (sorry , Austria) and that relaxed audiences about him.
That left the chiseled face but, c'mon -- Charles Bronson became a star as "the Ugly One" (said some critics.) So Arnold had a predecessor there (and BRONSON was a muscleman of more natural size in his movies.) Schwarzenegger's face was OK, but his body and his accent were his fortune.
PS. I can attest that one young woman found Arnold attractive . I was an eyewitness. This was in the 70s before movie stardom,when he was a famous bodybuilder. I saw him on a street in West Los Angeles pulling a long scarf back and forth across the back of the neck of a pretty woman. They looked into each others eyes. Things were clearly going somewhere THAT night.
Heck yes he's attractive! I've always thought he was handsome since first seeing him in The Terminator. 🥰
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