The “torturous” 1996 movie scene Arnold Schwarzenegger hated every second of shooting

Arnold Schwarzenegger endured extreme heat while filming the parade climax of *Jingle All the Way* in 1996, squeezed into the film’s bulky Turbo-Man costume. The shoot tested the cast and crew, and stands out as an unusually demanding episode in the making of a Christmas comedy.

The sequence took 19 days to film at Universal Studios Hollywood during a sweltering California summer, with 1,200 extras, two marching bands and 45-foot inflatables. Schwarzenegger said the costume’s cooling system could not cope with the heat while he was suspended on wires; co-star Sinbad also recalled that the water in his character’s helmet became “boiling”. Director Brian Levant moved the parade shoot from Minneapolis to Universal for greater control, and later said he was proud of the result despite extras fainting during filming.