“I mentioned to myself, ‘I am watching your present, and I’m watching your butt sticking on the market.’ And impulsively, I see the weenie,” Arnold jokingly instructed his son throughout a dialogue for Selection’s Actors on Actors.
Arnold and Patrick Schwarzenegger are opening up about stripping down on display screen.
Throughout a sit-down dialog for Selection’s Actors on Actors sequence, the father-son duo shared their ideas on Patrick’s filming nude scenes in Season 3 of HBO’s The White Lotus, by which he starred as Saxon Ratfliff, eldest baby of the rich, privileged household.
Arnold, 77, introduced up the primary time he went all pure on movie in 1984’s The Terminator.
“Terminator was the primary time that I used to be doing a movie that had nothing to do with the muscle groups. It was with leather-based jackets on and being a machine,” he mentioned. “Solely the opening scene was bare. However I am speaking about bare.”
“I’ve carried out it,” Patrick, 31, replied.
“I couldn’t imagine (it),” Arnold mentioned of his son, earlier than recalling his response to seeing Patrick’s full-frontal second on The White Lotus.
“I mentioned to myself, ‘I am watching your present, and I am watching your butt sticking on the market.’ And impulsively, I see the weenie,” he mentioned jokingly as Patrick laughed. “What’s going on right here? That is loopy!”
“Then I mentioned to myself, ‘Effectively, Arnold, hey. You probably did the identical factor in Conan and Terminatorso do not complain about it,'” Arnold continued. “But it surely was a shock to me that you simply had been following my footsteps so carefully.”
Patrick has been praised for his efficiency in The White Lotus, along with his dad even admitting that his “appearing shocked the hell out of (him).”
“I did not acknowledge you. I used to be blown away,” he added.
Patrick mirrored on the present’s success, saying, “Among the best components about being on the present is the quantity of those that get to acknowledge (my) work; I’ve carried out so many reveals that not so many individuals have seen.”
Arnold famous that he is had followers method him about Patrick in public — though not everyone seems to be a fan of Saxon.
“Now everyone seems to be coming as much as me within the health club and saying, ‘Your son is incredible.’ Another person comes as much as me and says, ‘I hated your son within the sequence,'” he mentioned, to which Patrick admitted, “That was the bizarre half.”
“‘Hated him? What sort of a praise is that? They mentioned, ‘He was incredible, however the character he performed was so plausible,'” Arnold added.
In the end, Patrick described the fan response as a “curler coaster” as viewers watched his character’s journey and transformation on display screen.
“The largest studying expertise is how a lot folks affiliate you together with your character. I do not understand how a lot that occurred to you over the course of your profession — perhaps with The Terminator,” he instructed his dad. “The primary weeks, folks got here as much as me and instructed me how a lot they hated me. By the top of it, they got here as much as me saying how a lot they felt dangerous for me. It was a curler coaster.”
Patrick is one among Arnold’s 4 kids whom he welcomed throughout his marriage to Maria Shriver. The previous couple — who had been married for 25 years till they separated in 2011 — additionally share Katherine35, Christina, 33, and Christopher, 27.
In 2003, Arnold, in fact, ran and in the end grew to become Governor of California, a place he held till 2011. Nonetheless, in accordance with Arnold and Patrick, the latter and his siblings had been not followers of their dad changing into governor.
“In 2003, as you keep in mind, I ran for governor and have become governor, which you guys…,” Arnola mentioned, earlier than Patrick chimed in, finishing his dad’s sentence.
” … hated,” he mentioned with fun.
My dad & I did Actors on Actors! It was an unbelievable dialog about movie, appearing , and our totally different paths. White lotus simply got here out & Fubar season 2 comes out subsequent week. Was excellent timing.
Not typically in life do you get to have an hour dialog with none moderator,… pic.twitter.com/gO7nMfot62— Patrick Schwarzenegger (@PSchwarzenegger) June 3, 2025
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“Hated,” Arnold confirmed, recalling, “It was the funniest factor. You coming to me and saying, ‘Dad, we had a lot enjoyable going to the set and watching you blow issues up. And now …”
“…we go to the Capitol,” Patrick added.
“All of you had been rebelling,” Arnold mentioned of Patrick and his children.
In the meantime, Patrick recalled getting pulled out of college early to go go to his dad on film units as a child, calling the expertise “heaven.”
“Aimee Lou (Wooden) requested me, ‘The place did you first get thinking about appearing?'” he mentioned, referring to his White Lotus co-star and pal. “And I used to be like, ‘It was heaven for a child, going to a film set together with your dad.’ You’d decide me up and take me out of college early in your Hummer.”
“You’d come decide me up early and also you(‘d stroll in as Dad, go into the trailer, come out as Mr. Freeze or the Terminator,” Patrick continued. “We might be within the trailer, and through your breaks, we might stroll into craft companies, get some Pink Vines, and we might take the golf cart and go to the E.T. journey. We talked about this concept of nepotism, however once you develop up and your mother and father do a selected job, it is smart that you simply go and work in that world.”
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