“ The White Lotus ”: the family name of Patrick Schwarzenegger worked against him

Despite Hollywood initiate status that this implies, the immediately recognizable name of Patrick Schwarzenegger almost prevented him from winning his most prominent concert to date.

The family name “Patrick Schwarzenegger worked against him, by the way. We did not want to launch him because of this,” the producer “The White Lotus”, David Bernad, said to Hollywood Reporter.

“It was so good,” added Bernad.

Schwarzenegger, 31, is the eldest son of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former governor of California and the star of the franchise “The Terminator”.

Schwarzenegger has long followed the traces of his father as an actor, winning roles in films like “Midnight Sun” with Bella Thorne (2018) and shows like the HBO True-Crime series “The Staircase” (2022). He is currently playing in the third season of “The White Lotus”, one of HBO’s most buzzing successes to date, as a Ratliff saxon – who is ironically a full -fledged nepo baby.

Saxon, who works in the same Hedge Fund as his father, Timothy Ratliff (Jason Isaacs), arrives at the luxury Thailand hotel for a family getaway. He is presented as a spoiled and unpleasant Frat Bro which is obsessed with success, status and protein smoothies – and Schwarzenegger depicts him so convincing that his real mother, Maria Shriver, recently felt the need to empty the name of his son.

“Patrick is not like Saxon,” said Shriver at the host “today”, host Savannah Guthrie. “I just want to clarify this because people say,” Is Patrick like Saxon? “I say to myself,” Do you think I would have raised a saxon? “”

For his part, Schwarzenegger congratulated the creator of “The White Lotus” Mike White for having left it Ad-Lib on the set and exploring the manners of Saxon in real time.

“There have been a lot of moments when Mike would let me play,” he told ThR. “Like when Saxon looks standing towards the Ladyboy waitress or when he got out of the pool and readjusted in a way when he looks at Chelsea. Mike came after that and was like” you just took yourself? “I said to myself:” Is it good? He was like, “guy, it was fucking brilliant.” “”

Schwarzenegger also described Saxon as a “type of strange and scary guy” during an interview with Today.com in March.

He even discussed watching the first of season three with his parents, despite the fact that he became completely naked on the screen while his character hangs out with his younger brother. (Schwarzenegger said he had encouraged nudity because he thought he was “very real for Saxon” to give up pajamas as a “power game”.)

“My father thought it was hilarious,” said Schwarzenegger. “My mother didn’t even really understand what was going on.”

In February, Schwarzenegger admitted that he sometimes wanted to have a different surname to ward off the accusations of nepotism.

“I know that there are people who will say that I have only obtained this role because of whom is my father,” Schwarzenegger told Times. “They do not see that I had 10 years of theater lessons, put on school games every week, worked on my characters for hours or on the hundreds of rejected auditions on which I have been.”

“Of course, it’s frustrating and you can get in a box and you think at that time, I want me to have my last name,” he continued. “But it’s a little while. I would never exchange my life with anyone.”