Arnold Schwarzenegger cracks rare joke about Maria Shriver and the film residuals she still asks for

He’s got jokes.Arnold Schwarzenegger made a rare comment about ex-wife Maria Shriver while promoting his newest holiday movie, “The Man With the Bag,” at Amazon’s Upfront 2025 Presentation in New York City on Monday.The 77-year-old “Terminator” star likened the upcoming flick to another Christmas classic he starred in, “Jingle All the Way.” He then poked fun at Shriver, who filed for divorce from Schwarzenegger in 2011 after 25 years of marriage.“‘Jingle All the Way’ was the greatest Christmas movie of all time,” he said during the event, per People.“They play it the whole month of December.”“I know,” Schwarzenegger added, “because my ex-wife calls me about the residual.”Schwarzenegger previously opened up about his split from Shriver, 69, in September 2023 before the release of his “Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life” motivational book.Although Shriver filed for divorce from the “Conan the Barbarian” star in 2011, the pair didn’t finalize their split until December 2021.“We never left the chapter,” he explained to People at the time.

“Because remember, it’s not like we had a feud.We didn’t have a fight.

It’s just my f–k up, right?”“She said, ‘Okay, this is what it is,’ and then she decided to make a split,” Schwarzenegger continued, “so it was her decision.”“But the fact is,” he added, “we always made it very clear that the kids should not suffer because of that.”Shriver filed for divorce from Schwarzenegger two months after he revealed he fathered a secret son, Joseph Baena, now 27, in 1997 with the family’s housekeeper, Mildred Baena.The “Total Recall” actor and Shriver have four children together: Christopher, 27, Patrick, 31, Christina, 33, and Katherine, 35.Despite their split, the pair is still happy co-parents to their adult kids.“My chapter with Maria will continue on forever,” the former governor of California said in September 2023.

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