Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed that he was once sent to military prison for a very on-brand reason.
The former strongman-turned-actor-turned-governor of California, 73, said that he went to military prison five years after he began bodybuilding, and it helped him become the star that he is today.
Schwarzenegger served in the Austrian Army in 1965 as part of his one-year mandatory military service, which all Austrian men over 18 have to complete, per BBC News.
However, while this service was a part of his civic duty, it got in the way of his bodybuilding dreams... and yes, you can see where this is going.
Schwarzenegger is pictured below at Mr. Universe in 1969.
He decided to abscond from his military service prior to the Junior Mr. Europe contest to give himself more time to prepare.
While he did end up winning the competition, he had to spend a few days in a military prison as a result of his actions.
"Participating in the competition meant so much to me that I didn't carefully think through the consequences," he earlier said, per Goliath.
However, because of the success that the now 73-year-old was having elsewhere, army officials reportedly felt "uncomfortable" about sending him to military prison.
So they decided to provide him with a makeshift gym while he was there and give him all the food he needed to put on the muscle mass he needed for the Mr. Universe competition.
"The Mr. Universe title was my ticket to America - the land of opportunity, where I could become a star and get rich," he said.
This effort was not in vain as he went on to place second in Mr. Universe 1968 and win the competition two years later.
Schwarzenegger's stint in military prison is an example of how he had to break the mold in order to achieve great things.
Mark Hamill explained that the star once reached out to him at the beginning of his career.
"I told him to lose his accent for a wider range of roles and to change his last name since no one could pronounce it. He did the opposite and became one of the biggest stars EVER," he wrote, per Eonline.
"Your advice was absolutely correct under any normal circumstances, and those were the rules back then. I just happen to be a rule-breaker," Schwarzenegger replied.