Resistance fighter, mother of the revolution, and hot mess extraordinaire: when you think about Sarah Connor from The Terminator franchise, chances are your mental image is that of Terminator 2: Judgment Day’s buff, flinty-eyed warrior, not the cowed waitress with frizzy hair only the 1980s could synthesize.
Actress Linda Hamilton’s impact on the action genre can’t be overstated.
Alongside figures like Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Pam Grier, Sarah Connor’s whiplash-inducing transformation from an unassuming damsel in distress into a volatile, merciless, and lethal prophet of the apocalypse set the blueprint for the Katniss Everdeens and the Furiosas of the modern movie landscape.
Hamilton reprised her epochal role in 2019 for Terminator: Dark Fate; four years earlier, a different actress took Sarah for an all-too brief big-screen spin.
2015’s Terminator: Genisys gambles with tradition through a Sarah Connor that’s recognizable but born of different circumstances.
And who better…
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