Arnold Schwarzenegger is opening up about his son, The White Lotus star Patrick Schwarzenegger, following in his appearing footsteps.
“Patrick by no means requested me a query about appearing,” Arnold, 77, mentioned in an interview with The Sunday Times printed on Saturday, June 14. “However he got here many instances to me and mentioned, ‘I simply did an interview with this journal and two thirds of the questions have been about you.’ However I used to be simply in New York and a journalist comes up and says, ‘What’s it like being the daddy of Patrick Schqarzenegger?”
He continued, “Abruptly, the whole lot has modified round. I stroll into the fitness center now and it was once the women would come up and provides me their contact. After which after White Lotus comes out, the woman comes up and says, ‘Right here’s my contact, give it to Patrick.’ So it’s great. If I am going to my grave and know that my son has outdone me, I’m in heaven.”
Patrick was one of many breakout stars of HBO Max’s White Lotus season 3, enjoying incestious older brother Saxon Ratliff. Schwarzenegger, for his half, is an iconic 80s and early 90s motion star, embodying a few of Hollywood’s most memorable characters in movies like The Terminator, Predator, Working Man and Twins.
Regardless of his White Lotus character being a poisonous, mansplaining wealthy child, each Patrick’s dad and mother, Maria Shriver, swear he’s the precise reverse in actual life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Patrick Schwarzenegger attend Netflix’s Los Angeles premiere of “Fubar” Season 2. Charley Gallay/Getty Pictures for Netfix
“The one factor Patriick does do like Saxon is push the button on the Vitamix,” she told TODAY.come in an April interview. “Each my boys are like, you realize, it’s quiet within the morning after which, “Growth!’ That blender goes off, and I’m like, ‘Actually? Actually?’ He and his brother, each, are like, ‘Zzt,’ and early. It’s the worst. I’m simply, like, ‘Excuse me?’ And so they’re like, ‘What? IT’s simply the blender.’ I’m like, why doesn’t any person make a quiet blender? I don’t know why they don’t do this.”
In the identical Saturday profile interview, Arnold additionally opened up about his less-well-known son, Christopher, and his current weight reduction journey. The actor admitted that it was troublesome for him to look at his son battle along with his dimension.
“I may by no means go and say to him, you’re chubby. We simply stored introducing wholesome meals,” Arnold mentioned of his son. “We launched him all the time to the fitness center and all of that sort of stuff. After which, out of nowhere, he determined that he needed to be lean. And now he’s. So that’s in fact improbable, the self-discipline and the self-motivation. I all the time felt someday it must come from him — and it did.”