Kindergarten Cop star , Miko Hughes, revealed what is was really like working with Arnold Schwarzenegger on the set of the 1990 classic, uncovering the backstory of the film's most iconic line. In the flick, Schwarzenegger played an Los Angeles PD detective who went undercover as a kindergarten teacher to seek out a witness who could testify against a sought after drug dealer/murderer. Hughes, 38, played alongside Schwarzenegger when he was just four-years-old, as he depicted the ultra-silly Joseph.
Donald Trump wanted some other than Arnold Schwarzenegger to get Apprentice gig Arnold Schwarzenegger gives filming update after pacemaker surgery The film is well know for it's most iconic and memorable line, when young Joseph says to his teacher: "Boys have a penis and girls have a vagina." When recently reflecting on his childhood acting job, Hughes said: 'I think I was the youngest one in the classroom on Kindergarten Cop. The stories that I'm told, you know, from my parents, [is that] they didn't have a line for me.
I didn't have lines written. Some of it was written as developed on set." After spending time observing the dynamics between Schwarzenegger and all of the children on the film's set, director Ivan Reitman was able to divise a plan for which lines each of the child star's would take.
According to Hughes, that's when the famous line was uncovered. "The story I'm told is that they came to my parents and said they [wanted me] to say this line that's kind of provocativ.
