Patrick Schwarzenegger Gets Candid About Nepotism and Rejections, Amidst Vile Uproar Around His Acting Career

Published 02/24/2025, 9:00 PM EST

With Emmy's and Golden Globes in front of the curtains, and a ritzy stream of cast members behind it, The White Lotus has reentered the race this February and has been all the rage ever since. Set to play with its dark swirling secrets and comical upper-class petulancy being explicitly represented, one Patrick Schwarzenegger, with an uncannily familiar last name (wink wink) plays one of the talk-of-the-town characters that the audience cannot stop being jarringly exposed to: Saxton Ratcliff.

While the actor delights the spectators by aptly portraying the morally 'open' character by threading out the exact reactions that need to be from the onlookers, Schwarzenegger does not seem to be given a hundred percent of the credits for these performances.   

Patrick Schwarzenegger proves the Schwarzenegger family tree's fruit falls incredibly close

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It is made apparent, the care that needs to be taken while addressing the Schwarzenegger lineage, the topic degree of stance in his life as Patrick Schwarzenegger reveals to The Times his awareness of the opinions on his nepotism-bestowed role in the immensely popular series. "I know there are people who will say I only got this toles because of who my dad is", says Arnold Schwarzenegger's beloved son. He goes on to explain his frustrations, about the entirely unseen and unrevealable efforts that he has to put into this work. The "tens of years of acting classes" and "hundreds of rejected auditions" that truly no performer can ever share the pain of, with simple onlookers. 

Schwarzenegger is the son of the incredibly famed and accoladed, of Austrian descent, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Having been a household name in the 80's, holder of the heart-breaking-ly charming smile that he has had, Arnold Schwarzenegger had made his first appearance in public not as an actor but as a retired bodybuilder, going on to become global with lead roles in movies such as The Terminator in 1984, and Conan the Barbarian back in 1982.

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Schwarzenegger could take on either, political or theatrical inheritances from his father, along with the toiling that the actor claims for himself, speaking of the manner of prowess. Though he might have, quite literally, tentatively inherited something as the ghost of the news has presented.

The next Terminator, and oh! look, he looks like him too!

The Terminator, revolving around a cyborg assassin who goes by the same name and having been famously, and excellently played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime, defining him as the face of the franchise. The later installations of the series even being infamously known to have nose-dived down in quality after the actor's departure from the role. And recently while being brought back in the talks by James Cameron, Patrick Schwarzenegger seemed to be eager to carry on his father's legacy, walk on his footsteps, with no hesitation, and all gratitude. 

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While Schwarzenegger seems to be holding his head in his hands, trying to let the world know that he is a person entirely different from his father, and rightfully so, it is not said in vain, that with great name, comes great responsibility. And Schwarzenegger seems to be playing his part well in stead of his father.  

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What do you think of Schwarzenegger's un-entitlement towards being his father's heir? Let us know in the comments below!

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