Arnold Schwarzenegger cracks rare joke about Maria Shriver — and the film residuals she still asks for
He's got jokes.
Arnold Schwarzenegger made a rare comment about ex-wife Maria Shriver while promoting his newest holiday movie, 'The Man With the Bag,' at Amazon's Upfront 2025 Presentation in New York City on Monday.
The 77-year-old 'Terminator' star likened the upcoming flick to another Christmas classic he starred in, 'Jingle All the Way.' He then poked fun at Shriver, who filed for divorce from Schwarzenegger in 2011 after 25 years of marriage.
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8 Arnold Schwarzenegger made a rare comment about his ex-wife, Maria Shriver, on Monday while in New York City.
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8 Shriver filed for divorce from the 'Terminator' star in July 2011 after 25 years of marriage.
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''Jingle All the Way' was the greatest Christmas movie of all time,' he said during the event, per People. 'They play it the whole month of December.'
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'I know,' Schwarzenegger added, 'because my ex-wife calls me about the residual.'
Schwarzenegger previously opened up about his split from Shriver, 69, in September 2023 before the release of his 'Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life' motivational book.
8 Schwarzenegger joked that Shriver still 'calls me about the residuals' for his 1996 holiday movie 'Jingle All the Way.'
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8 The 'Total Recall' star and Shriver on their wedding day on April 26, 1986, in Hyannis, Mass.
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Although Shriver filed for divorce from the 'Conan the Barbarian' star in 2011, the pair didn't finalize their split until December 2021.
'We never left the chapter,' he explained to People at the time. 'Because remember, it's not like we had a feud. We didn't have a fight. It's just my f–k up, right?'
'She said, 'Okay, this is what it is,' and then she decided to make a split,' Schwarzenegger continued, 'so it was her decision.'
8 A family picture of Christopher, Katherine, Christina and Patrick Schwarzenegger.
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'But the fact is,' he added, 'we always made it very clear that the kids should not suffer because of that.'
Shriver filed for divorce from Schwarzenegger two months after he revealed he fathered a secret son, Joseph Baena, now 27, in 1997 with the family's housekeeper, Mildred Baena.
The 'Total Recall' actor and Shriver have four children together: Christopher, 27, Patrick, 31, Christina, 33, and Katherine, 35. Despite their split, the pair is still happy co-parents to their adult kids.
8 Schwarzenegger and Shriver during the 'Conan the Barbarian' actor's inauguration as governor of California in January 2007.
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8 Schwarzenegger in 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day' in 1991.
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'My chapter with Maria will continue on forever,' the former governor of California said in September 2023. 'Even though it's a different relationship, there's no reason for me to feel anything other than love for her.'
As for Shriver, she opened up about the couple's shocking split this year with the release of her 'I Am Maria' book.
She called the divorce 'brutal,' and admitted that she was left 'terrified' in the wake of the 'devastating' and 'life-altering blow.'
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8 Shriver opened up about her split from Schwarzenegger in April with the release of her 'I Am Maria' book.
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'It broke my heart, it broke my spirit, it broke what was left of me,' the former journalist wrote. 'Without my marriage, my parents, a job – the dam of my lifelong capital-D Denial just blew apart.'
'Honestly, it was brutal,' she added, 'and I was terrified.'
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Shriver also clarified that she is now in 'such a good place' after the initial shock of the divorce, and that she and Schwarzenegger are 'still in conversation' thanks to their children and grandchildren.
'We laugh a lot about our kids, our grandkids, ourselves, and we are proud of the fact that we are still in conversation,' she said in March. 'For almost 50 years!'
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