SUBMITTED BY Timbo

September 22, 2003 — During a lunch on the set of The Rundown, director Peter Berg and The Rock asked Arnold Schwarzenegger if he wanted to appear in the film.

In one scene of the new Hollywood action flick "The Rundown," the California gubernatorial hopeful walks by the pro-wrestling superstar's character and advises him to have fun -- a symbolic passing of the action-hero torch.

According to The Rock, the exchange with the Governator wasn't part of the original script.

"Probably because there were so many comparisons already, which I thought was very flattering, but I never ever thought that Arnold should be in the movie or anything," The Rock, whose real name is Dwayne Johnson, said in Sunday's Boston Herald.

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