Arnold Schwarzenegger Tells An INCREDIBLE Story From the Set of 'Twins' With Danny DeVito

Arnold Schwarzenegger has spent decades as the guy who pulls the prank. On the set of Twins, Danny DeVito flipped the script on him, and Schwarzenegger is still impressed by the craftsmanship.

Asked whether it was true that he inadvertently smoked a cigar spiked with marijuana handed to him by DeVito, Schwarzenegger did not hedge. "That's true."

Then he explained the setup, and the setup is the best part.

"What he did to me was what I normally do to people," Schwarzenegger said. "So he just turned it around." Then, with an expletive he did not bother to soften, he added that DeVito got him to really fall for it.

It started with lunch. DeVito offered to make pasta, served it outside his motor home, and then produced Italian cheesecake. Then espresso, delivered with full European theater, the little cup and the pinky extended.

Then came the pitch. DeVito complained that Schwarzenegger was always handing out good stogies while he had been the stingy one, and announced he had a great cigar to make it right. A Montecristo number two. Torpedo-shaped. The kind Churchill used to smoke.

"So he knew that my saliva was running together," Schwarzenegger said.

He smoked it. It was, by his own account, a really good cigar. DeVito asked how he was feeling. Schwarzenegger said great. Really great.

Then they went back to the set to finish the scene they had paused for lunch, which happened to be Schwarzenegger's close-up, with DeVito standing next to the camera.

DeVito said his line. Schwarzenegger said nothing.

"He said, can anyone help me here? What's the line? And then someone fed me the line and it sounded like literally like I've never even heard that line before."

That is when he knew. "I said guys, there's something off here. I cannot remember the end of the lines."

The script supervisor came over to help and brought him the scene they had already shot that morning. He could not remember that one either.

Schwarzenegger's solution was pure production logic, which is somehow the funniest part of the whole story. He turned to his costar and proposed a workaround.

"I just said okay, look Danny, why don't you do the close-ups and I'm on this side of the camera and then hopefully this passes."

It passed. About an hour. DeVito shot his close-ups, they turned the camera around again, and Schwarzenegger's memory came back on like a light. They finished the scenes.

The button on it is the part where DeVito never actually admitted anything out loud. He just kept checking in.

"Danny would say to me, good stogie huh?"

That is how Schwarzenegger finally put it together. A guy who has made a career out of getting people got got, on his own set, in front of a crew, by a costar with an espresso and a torpedo-shaped alibi.