Schwarzenegger: I could have starred in 'Die Hard'

Arnold Schwarzenegger turned down 'Die Hard' and 'The Rock'.

The 'Terminator' actor revealed that when he was offered the scripts for the two films he was not impressed enough with them to commit.

With 'Die Hard', Arnold, 65, said that he was given a piece of the script to read, telling Empire: "There was an unfinished script, which someone gave me and said: 'Would you want to play this?'

"I was working with Joel Silver on 'Predator' and 'Die Hard' was his next movie. So we talked about it but then he hired Bruce Willis."

Schwarzenegger can also recall the time when producer Don Simpson came into his trailer with 85 pages of 'The Rock' script hand-edited by Jerry Bruckheimer.

He explained: "He says: 'Here, look at this script. But don't read it! Just, here's what the premise is. He was all over the place.

"I said: 'Look, Don. I can't make a commitment based on what you're showing me here. You won't even let me read the script! Why don't you bake it some more, develop it some more then we'll talk again'."

He described Simpson was "very upset" when he turned down the role and decided to approach Nicolas Cage instead.

Schwarzenegger returned to the big screen in 'The Expendables 2' last month, taking on the role of Trench once again.