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Daily Mail
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
80s child star who acted alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in huge film looks worlds away from his younger self
80s child star Danny Cooksey looked worlds away from his younger self in a snap with his daughter Zoe Leigh Huish. Danny, 49, was a familiar face in Hollywood as a child and made a name for himself acting in Diff'rent Strokes, The Cavanaughs, Xiaolin Showdown, and Salute Your Shorts. He also jokingly describes himself as 'the guy with the sweet mullet in Terminator 2' after starring alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in the classic film. Stepping into the shoes of Tim for the second instalment in the Terminator franchise, he played a friend of the young John Connor. Needless to say, his mullet is now long gone, and it couldn't be more apparent in a snap celebrating his then-impending status as a grandfather. He wrote at the time: 'Getting closer. So exciting. Can't wait for my first granddaughter.' Danny is pictured in the snap with his daughter Zoe, who gave birth to his first grandchild in 2022. The little girl is now a staple of the actor's Instagram account, where he proudly declared that she has the 'cutest face ever' in a recent snap. While most of us may not recognise Danny from his child acting heyday, he is still very much in the business. And while his red mullet is gone, you can still tell it is the same person thanks to his facial structure and red hair, which these days he styles short and in a goatee. Some of Danny's more recent projects include lending his voice to The Lorax and the Kung Fu Panda TV series. Still celebrating his status as an 80s legend, he jokes in his Instagram biography: 'Actor/musician known for such roles as the little white kid on Diff'rent Strokes. 'The guy with the sweet mullet in Terminator 2 and yes Budnick'. The actor may also be familiar to 90s children too, or at least his voice will be, as his credits also include voicing Stoop Kid in Hey Arnold! - a role he went on to reprise for the Hey Arnold! movie in 2017. Danny (L) is pictured here acting in Diff'rent Strokes in 1985 as part of his glittering career as a child star In an interview with a Hey Arnold! fan website in 2019, Danny reflected on what it was like to work on Terminator 2 as a child. He explained that it was shot close to where he was growing up in California, and ahead of his scenes, the film crews actually made it hard for him to get to school. The actor said: 'It was such a big production - it was awesome. 'I actually lived in the area where it was filmed. 'So, about a week or so before I started, I was driving to school and my normal route was totally blocked with all sorts of production trucks and what-not.' Danny also said that while it looked like his character Tim was killed by the T-1000, in his mind, he is still alive. He said: 'C'mon now, Terminator or no Terminator, you can't kill a power mullet that easy. 'Tim is alive, homeless and crazy - living somewhere on the sunset strip.'
The Irish Sun
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
80s child star who co-starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger is now a grandad aged 49 – but can you guess who he is?
THIS 80s child star was lucky enough to star alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in one his biggest films ever, when he was just a teenager. The star in question is now 49 and is even a grandad - but can you guess who it is? 8 Can you guess who this former child star is? Credit: dannycooksey/Instagram 8 Now 49, this actor is also a grandad, after his daughter had a baby Credit: dannycooksey/Instagram 8 This actor appeared alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in this HUGE movie Credit: Alamy 8 Dis you guess the actor was Danny Cooksey (right) who starred in terminator 2 The child star we are talking about is Danny Cooksey, who shot to fame when he was just a teenager. After appearing in numerous 80s sitcoms, he got his big break into the movies when he landed a role alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. Fans of Terminator 2 will recognise him from Arnie's 1991 blockbuster movie. At just 14-year-old, he played Tim, the red head with the mullet that befriends Edward Fulong's character John Connor. More on unrecognizable stars Danny previously revealed he has very fond memories from time he shot the movie in the early 90s. "There are so many. It was such a big production," he told "It was awesome. I actually lived in the area where it was filmed." Recalling how he found out he got the role of a lifetime he said: "So, about a week or so before I started, I was driving to school and my normal route was totally blocked with all sorts of production trucks and what-not. Most read in Celebrity "Knowing what they were, I grumbled to myself about what damn production was causing me to be late, and reroute etc. Charlotte Rae stars as Mrs Garrett alongside Gary Coleman on Diff'rent Strokes "Then I got the call and realized that the damn production was T2. "I could have walked to the location. It was the intersection that they like slingshot the semi into the wall. " I was on set for that huge stunt. very very cool. It was awesome!" 8 Danny was known for his mullet in Terminator 2 Credit: Getty 8 Danny shot to fame in Diff'rent Strokes in the 80s Credit: Getty BECOMING CHILD STAR Before his role in Terminator 2, Danny was already known by fans for being in the hugely successful 1980s sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. On the show, he starred alongside the Gary Coleman and played the late actor's onscreen best friend, Sam. 8 The actor is also known for the 90s Nickelodeon show, Salute Your Shorts, Credit: Nickelodeon In total Danny appeared in 48 episodes of the comedy from 1984 through 1986. After his Terminator 2 fame, he landed the role of Bobby in Nickelodeon's hugely popular teen drama, Salute Your Shorts. His other TV credit include Tiny Toon Adventures, 101 Dalmatians: The Series and Dave The Barbarian. Danny continues to act, although a lot of his jobs include voice work. He voiced the roles of Brett and Chet in The Lorax, which also starred the voices of Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron and Taylor Swift. Away from the limelight, and Danny is also dad to two kids - Zoe, 27, and Jackson, 14 - who he shares with his ex-wife Amber. In fact, he is now a grandad, after his daughter welcomed a child. 8 Danny continues to work as a voice actor Credit: dannycooksey/Instagram
The Sun
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
80s child star who co-starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger is now a grandad aged 49 – but can you guess who he is?
THIS 80s child star was lucky enough to star alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in one his biggest films ever, when he was just a teenager. The star in question is now 49 and is even a grandad - but can you guess who it is? 8 8 8 8 The child star we are talking about is Danny Cooksey, who shot to fame when he was just a teenager. After appearing in numerous 80s sitcoms, he got his big break into the movies when he landed a role alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. Fans of Terminator 2 will recognise him from Arnie's 1991 blockbuster movie. At just 14-year-old, he played Tim, the red head with the mullet that befriends Edward Fulong's character John Connor. Danny previously revealed he has very fond memories from time he shot the movie in the early 90s. "There are so many. It was such a big production," he told The Arnold "It was awesome. I actually lived in the area where it was filmed." Recalling how he found out he got the role of a lifetime he said: "So, about a week or so before I started, I was driving to school and my normal route was totally blocked with all sorts of production trucks and what-not. "Knowing what they were, I grumbled to myself about what damn production was causing me to be late, and reroute etc. Charlotte Rae stars as Mrs Garrett alongside Gary Coleman on Diff'rent Strokes "Then I got the call and realized that the damn production was T2. "I could have walked to the location. It was the intersection that they like slingshot the semi into the wall. " I was on set for that huge stunt. very very cool. It was awesome!" 8 8 BECOMING CHILD STAR Before his role in Terminator 2, Danny was already known by fans for being in the hugely successful 1980s sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. On the show, he starred alongside the Gary Coleman and played the late actor's onscreen best friend, Sam. 8 In total Danny appeared in 48 episodes of the comedy from 1984 through 1986. After his Terminator 2 fame, he landed the role of Bobby in Nickelodeon's hugely popular teen drama, Salute Your Shorts. His other TV credit include Tiny Toon Adventures, 101 Dalmatians: The Series and Dave The Barbarian. Danny continues to act, although a lot of his jobs include voice work. He voiced the roles of Brett and Chet in The Lorax, which also starred the voices of Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron and Taylor Swift. Away from the limelight, and Danny is also dad to two kids - Zoe, 27, and Jackson, 14 - who he shares with his ex-wife Amber. In fact, he is now a grandad, after his daughter welcomed a child. 8
Time Out
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Mission: Impossible
As Marvel has been learning, it's hard to keep a franchise fresh and relevant. Mission: Impossible, though, may be the first to be too relevant. The idea of all-powerful artificial intelligence attempting to nuke the planet back to the Stone Age was a bit of escapist fun in the days of Terminator 2. Now? It feels like something Sam Altman might casually raise in an OpenAI brainstorming session. If the stakes in Final Reckoning – the ninth M:I movie and a full stop of sorts for the series – are triggering (and in fairness, the pilot episode of the '60s TV series did involve a couple of rogue nuclear warheads, so World War III has been on its mind before), the execution is regularly breathtaking. Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie's storytelling ambition is off the scales here – a bug as well as a feature. Not content with springboarding off the events in Dead Reckoning, The Final Reckoning stitches in call backs to the original Brian De Palma movie and even JJ Abrams' unloved Mission: Impossible III. This makes for an opening 30 minutes that are treacly when they need to be spry and nimble. It's exposition served five ways, with flashbacks and flashes forward (Mission: Impossible 's 'here's what you're about to see…' opening credits makes it all start to feel like Tenet), and an entire scene where Cruise is plugged into a kind of hypobaric exposition chamber. So, a quick reminder: The Entity, a malevolent AI, now controls the entire internet from a sunken Russian submarine. A few months without TikTok videos of baby pandas has reduced humanity to a febrile, culty mob. Enter the daredevil Hunt and his small band of agents – Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell and Ving Rhames are joined by Pom Klementieff and Top Gun: Maverick 's Greg Tarzan Davis this time – to unplug The Entity before it can take control of the world's nuclear arsenal and turn humanity to toast. Only Hunt has the key – literally and figuratively – to stop it. With action sequences this adrenalised, no one is leaving short-changed As well as Terminator 2, there are shades of WarGames, Crimson Tide, and even 1960s polar potboiler Ice Station Zebra and Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe, as McQuarrie bolts Cold War anxieties onto a highly plausible tech future. It's a surprisingly doomy note to inject into an action-packed spy caper, and a strange tonal shift from the filmmaker. But The Final Reckoning really finds its fun in a second half that delivers an array of escapist locations and two of franchise's most adrenalised and expertly designed action sequences. One is underwater, one airborne – neither is in any way plausible. So, sure, the plot is overstuffed, the cross-cutting is frenzied, and Pegg's goofy asides are the only light relief from the underlying somberness. If you're looking for flaws, The Final Reckoning definitely has them. But with action sequences this adrenalised, no one is leaving short-changed. Because no one has ever worked harder to entertain you than its star, a man who continues to take gravity as a personal affront. Cruise may be the last of the great action stars – enjoy his bonkers feats while you can.
NDTV
12-05-2025
- Automotive
- NDTV
Harley-Davidson Fat Boy Gray Ghost Revealed; Only 1,990 Units To Be Manufactured
The Harley-Davidson Fat Boy turns 35 this year, with the motorcycle first launched in 1990. Since then, it has made numerous appearances in pop culture, most notably, when it was ridden by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2. And to celebrate its 35th birthday, Harley-Davidson launched a limited-edition model of the Fat Boy, the Gray Ghost. It is the 5th model in the company's Icons Motorcycle Collection. Only 1,990 models of the motorcycle will be manufactured and it is yet to be seen whether it will be launched in India or not. The Harley-Davidson Fat Boy Gray Ghost gets a lovely mirror finish, thanks to a process called physical vapour deposition (PVD) or thin film coating. What happens is that a solid material is vapourised in vacuum and deposited on the surface of the motorcycle, in this case the fuel tank and fenders. Then, the parts are again painted with a standard clear coat finish. The bike's standout aesthetic begins with chrome side covers and a bright silver powder-coated frame, lending a polished and high-end finish. Styling elements directly inspired by the original Fat Boy include a rounded air cleaner and distinctive yellow accents applied to the lower rocker covers, powertrain components, and tank console insert. Adding to the vintage appeal, the motorcycle is equipped with a leather seat valance featuring lacing and tassels, as well as a black leather tank strap adorned with laced edging. These details recall custom design trends from Harley-Davidson's earlier eras. A major highlight is the three-dimensional fuel tank medallion, a faithful reproduction of the winged emblem that became synonymous with the original Fat Boy. The commemorative tank console insert also bears a unique serial number, underscoring the exclusivity of the model. Completing the tribute is an Icons Collection medallion elegantly placed on the rear fender. The motorcycle gets a new Milwaukee-Eight 117 Custom Engine that makes 101 hp and 171 Nm of peak torque, which is an increase of 7 per cent in power and 3 per cent in torque over the 2024 Fat Boy. The motorcycle is loaded with features like - three riding modes (road, rain, sport), cornering ABS, cornering traction control, drag torque slip control and tyre pressure monitoring system. Other features include full LED lighting, a new USB port and a new 5-inch instrument console. The motorcycle also gets new 49 mm dual-bending valve along with a hydraulic suspension under the seat. In USA, it is priced at $25,399 which is the equivalent of Rs. 21.5 lakh.
