O.J. as the Terminator

[snopes]

Comment: On the IMDB trivia page for the 1984 film The Terminator, it
states the following:

"O.J. Simpson was considered for the role of the Terminator, but the
producers feared he was "too nice" to be taken seriously as a cold-blooded
killer."

This sounds like the punchline to a joke, so I was wondering if it was
actually true or if it was just a joke that someone got added to the IMDB
page (since it is all user-submitted, even though it supposedly has to go
through some sort of screening process first). Have you heard of this
before? Thank you.