In typical dad fashion, it turns out that Hollywood legend Arnold Schwarzenegger was just as shocked as all of us were to see his son, Patrick Schwarzenegger, showing off his body on Season 3 of The White Lotus.
“I’m watching your show, and I’m watching you with your butt sticking out there,” the 77-year-old Schwarzenegger explained during his recent Actors on Actors session, captured in the Variety tweet below, with his son.
“And I see the weenie, and I said, ‘What is going on here?’ This is crazy! And then I said to myself, ‘Well, Arnold, hello, you did the same thing in Conan and in Terminator and all those films. You were naked, so don’t complain about it.’ But it was kind of like a shock to me, that you would follow in my footsteps that closely.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger jokes about seeing Patrick naked on screen: “I saw your weenie!” #ActorsOnActors https://t.co/blmS1nx28P pic.twitter.com/9L1Lx4trpe
— Variety (@Variety) June 3, 2025
Patrick arguably made his breakout with his role on Season 3 of The White Lotus, but he’s been on the scene for a while. He previously appeared in the 2022 miniseries The Staircase and 2024’s American Sports Story.
As for movies, his best role so far (in my humble opinion) is the 2019 psychological horror film Daniel Isn’t Real, in which Patrick plays the imaginary friend of a damaged young man played by Miles Robbins. He’s proven himself quite a few times over the years to be a solid actor with his own set of strengths that are separate from his father’s.
Arnie first appeared on-screen in the 1970 film Hercules in New York and is perhaps most famous for his stint as The Terminator in the Terminator films. He hasn’t been in any movies since 2019 — though he has been starring on the Netflix series FUBAR since 2023 — but will appear in two upcoming films: Kung Fury 2 and The Man With the Bag.
Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Planet Hollywood.
Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
