A brand-new Conan the Barbarian for a new generation intends to crush its enemies at the box office this weekend. In that spirit, we've got vintage footage of the original Conan himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger , talking up both of his Conan entries and the trials and travails he endured to bring Robert E. Howard's mythic Cimmerian to life.

"I think I was kind of meant for playing Conan, you know? I think that I felt very comfortable playing that character, playing that barbaric role, doing all the sword fighting, and it was a very physical film," Arnold told ET back in the early '80s. "This is the great thing about doing films. First of all, you learn new things -- sword-fighting or horseback riding and all those things -- and at the same time you play like a little child, you can play like cowboy and Indian type of things, you know, looking for the enemy and crushing them and knocking them down."

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