## Becoming the Voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Beretta's most famous professional association began in the late 1980s.
Starting with **Double Détente** in 1988, he became the regular French voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The pairing proved extraordinarily successful.
Schwarzenegger's physical presence was already enormous on screen, but dubbing requires something more than simply reproducing an actor's words.
A voice actor has to reproduce the character's personality, timing, authority, humor, emotion, and rhythm.
Beretta understood that.
His voice gave Schwarzenegger's characters a distinctive French identity without making them feel disconnected from the original performances.
Over the years, he dubbed Schwarzenegger in approximately 28 feature films, including some of the actor's most recognizable productions.
For French audiences, his voice became inseparable from characters such as the Terminator, Harry Tasker in **True Lies**, and Douglas Quaid in **Total Recall**.
## The Terminator in French
Perhaps the strongest example of Beretta's impact can be found in the **Terminator** franchise.
Although Schwarzenegger had been voiced by other French actors in earlier films, Beretta became the defining French voice of the character in subsequent installments, including **Terminator 2: Judgment Day**.
For audiences who watched the film in French, the character's voice was not simply a translation of Schwarzenegger.
It became part of the character itself.
