True Lies (1994) — "When he said I do, he never said what he did." (with Rob Sogomonian)
A wedding vow, weaponized as a punchline — and the $100 million bet that started it all.
In the very first episode of The Poster Says..., Nate sits down with voice actor Rob Sogomonian to dig into True Lies (1994) — James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger's third collaboration, and the first film in history to cross a $100 million production budget. They unpack the tagline "When he said I do, he never said what he did" — eleven words doing the work of comedy, thriller, and romance all at once — and dive into the making of one of 1994's biggest blockbusters.
Welcome to the very first episode of The Poster Says... — and we're starting with a big one.
True Lies (1994) was the first film in history to cross a $100 million production budget, and the third collaboration between James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, following The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It's also got one of the cleanest, sharpest taglines we've ever broken down: "When he said I do, he never said what he did" — eleven words turning a wedding vow into a punchline, a thriller setup, and a romance hook, all at once.
Nate is joined by voice actor Rob Sogomonian (one of his two all-time favorite movies, alongside Predator!) to talk through:
— Why nobody knows who wrote one of the cleanest taglines in '90s blockbuster history
— How Schwarzenegger personally found the French film this was based on
— The risk Cameron took betting an unprecedented budget on a spy-comedy
— Why 1994 — the year of Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, and The Lion King — was one of the greatest years in movie history, and how True Lies held its own anyway
— What still holds up, and what's genuinely complicated to watch with 30+ years of hindsight
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Rob Sogomonian is a voice actor, narrator, singer, producer, director, and co-founder of Articul8 Studios — an eight-person voice acting collective currently producing the audio drama Static Shift.
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