Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to appear in a new State Farm insurance commercial during Super Bowl 58 between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers, which finds him in familiar action-packed territory.
The commercial, titled “Like A Good Neighbaaa,” has fun with Schwarzenegger’s iconic Austrian accent, which gets in the way of him saying the company’s tagline (“Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there”).
Speaking with Yahoo, Schwarzenegger said when he was getting into movies in the ‘70s his accent held him back.
“People said, ‘you will never be a leading man because you have an accent,’” he told the publication. “Here we are decades later. So many of my movie lines became so popular because of the way I pronounce things. This commercial plays off that, and I laughed my head off when I read it.”
The former governor said although he’s being featured in a State Farm advertisement during the Super Bowl, he won’t necessarily be rooting for fellow State Farm spokespeople and Kansas City Chiefs players Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.
He told the publication he’s never “forced to do anything.”