You could say that Patrick Schwarzenegger did more to promote the cause of fraternal love than any other actor on earth (with the possible exception of THE White lotus Cast Mate Sam Nivola). The Hollywood Reporter Sitting with the 31 -year -old Breakout star to unpack the Wild Season Three final of the award -winning HBO holiday saga at the Mike White Emmy Emmy and discuss some of the disadvantages of fame (like fans who want to know what type of porn he looks), which he does next and what is to live with a vaguely familiar name.
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Working on this program has catapulted your career at a new level, but the final seemed to be a really moving and emotional experience for you. What made this so different from the other projects you have carried out?
When I did The staircase Or American sports, You go and film and get closer to the casting, but at the end of the day, you go home to your own apartment or hotel. It was not like that. It was simply incredibly intense. For eight months, it’s just the casting and the crew alone in the same place for 24 hours a day. And then you are together for months of press, so you end up knowing these people and binding with them in a very deep and intimate way. Then the last episode is broadcast and it’s over. It’s a bit sad and disturbing.
You know, when I watched the final the other evening and the shooting occurred, I really torn myself. I didn’t expect it. It was like the death of this chapter for me in my life. I became very emotional about this. About Saxon and where he found himself. About the death of Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood). I started to cry. I literally cried! I looked at friendly Lou Wood, who looked at him with me, and I just put my head on her shoulders and she put hers on mine. It was this beautiful sad moment for us.
You said you didn’t read everyone’s scripts because you wanted to be surprised at the end. Was there a scene that particularly surprised you when the final took place?
I was really moved by the final scene with the three ladies – especially by the Carrie monologue (Coon). I did not know in advance where their scenario was going. They mainly filmed their scenes before arriving. I had a scene with them in the episode one of me who struck them at the pool, but I knew nothing else about them. I have always been surprised to know where the show went with them, all the different guys and the party and all the fights. But I loved the way they went through all of this, and the way this beautiful monologue linked everything together. It was a perfect end for them, I thought.
In the first episodes, Saxon was, to put it out of it unsettling, a kind of shower. Your mom (Maria Shriver) told an interviewer that she wanted to indicate very clearly that Saxon is not Patrick, “This character is not my son!” Were you worried to play such an unmanageable character?
I was not really. Not at the beginning. But after the broadcast of the first episodes, I was blown away on the extent of the size of the show. I would walk in the street or have a coffee and people would come to me saying: “Oh my God, I hate you. You are so hateful.” Or “I love hating you” and “you are such a shower” and all these horrible things. I remember that I was with my fiancé and I said to myself: “Oh my God! It’s a lot!” All these people cry out on me, coming to me and saying to me: “What kind of porn do you like?” Honestly, I sometimes felt bad for my fiancé. I knew that the show was just starting – it lasts eight weeks and that the character develops and it was far too early for people to judge someone – but you know, people like to judge.
Have they started to warm up in Saxon at the end?
Totally. Now they are like: “Oh, I felt so horrible for Saxon when Amiee Lou (Wood) ran in Walton’s arms (Goggins). And look, how much he reads a book.” (Laughter.) Yesterday, I had the most surreal experience. I entered this restaurant and this table of six women in the forties and the fifties began to shout: “Saxon, Saxon!” I turned around and this lady made a sad face, then I started to applaud, and all the women started to applaud, then each table – there must have been 40 people in the restaurant – started to applaud. I became so emotional, I just had to leave. I don’t do well with this kind of attention.
But you are the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is probably recognized all the time. You must have been used to people who treat him like that, but maybe it’s weird that it happens to you now.
This part of its success always seemed to me weird. It’s probably weird for him now too. We went to the gymnasium together yesterday and people went to him and started talking about my show.
In the show, you play a character who lives in the shade of a successful father. Was it something you could relate personally to?
Yeah, I guess this is something I could identify with Saxon, I could identify myself in the shade. There is this scene with me and Jason (Isaacs) in episode seven and I say to myself: “You know, dad, I am nothing without you and without work and I cannot manage to be nothing. It’s only if all is well, so everything is fine, right? I read that and I said to myself, yeah, there is something in me to shoot when it is time for this scene. But my father was a big fan of the show, and he was proud of me.
I read that you thought it was prudent to give your parents an idea of the incest scene, which I imagine obtained an interesting answer. (Laughter) Obviously, this scenario will be loomed in the show. Did you have an apprehension to shoot it at the beginning?
No, I had no apprehension. I mean, as, were there nerves? Yes. But you know, at the end of the day, it’s not me. I play someone else and I have to stay faithful to the script and this character. I just put my faith in confidence in Mike (white) as creator and writer and showrunner. He was really patient and made me cross all clumsiness. It was good. I knew it was going to be controversial, but Mike knows what he is doing. Everything has aroused a lot of conversations and interest in the show, for better or for worse, but it ended up being great.
I think people expected a kind of great revelation on this subject, but the final tackled the subject sparingly. What point do you think this scenario finally served?
I think it was a real turning point for Saxon because as you said, in the first episodes, it was just this kind of note. Then this experience with his brother literally killed him. It killed his ego and who he thought he was and it is obviously one of the great themes of this show – to die and be born again. I mean, that’s how I see it at least. One of the things about Mike is that he doesn’t always have a clear end. I remember asked him what happened to the family after recovering his phone and returned home. He said to himself, “I don’t need to explain everything. In the real world, not everyone knows. ” He likes to play with the public and leave an ambiguous thing. Even to us.
Well, what do you think it happens to this family? Will Saxon adapt to the poor and the unemployed? How do you finish this script?
Well, I’m not a writer for a reason, but maybe it could be a parody of comedy. It would be nice hilarious if at the next hotel for season four, Saxon suddenly returns as a spiritual advisor … He talks to people about the way they can change.
Or he could come back as a concierge.
(Laughter). Exactly. He obtained a new job as a concierge of the hotel. It would also be funny, and then I can come back for the next season.
What do you think you want to do then? I’m sure your agent throws a lot of calls after that.
It was busy, but I’m going to be patient. I really want to find something good. You know, there is one thing I work on with this incredible director, a director that I admired all my career. I loved his projects, and we do something, and I hope it will happen later this year that would be extremely difficult and would put me through the most difficult actor experience and the most difficult actor.
Could you see yourself making an action movie all over the line? Or is it something that you prefer to avoid?
Yeah, I really want to do that. I mean, it’s the goal on the road is to do this type of thing. I would love to do that, if it was the right thing. I spoke to my father, and I told him that I would love to do that if it was the right thing. I never wanted, but now I feel like I have credits to my credit, and that I had work, and I feel like I got to the point where I would feel at ease to work with him.
Which of you gets the best billing?
(Laughter) I will let my agent manage this.
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