Patrick Schwarzenegger Responds To ‘Nepo Child’ Accusations – The Boston Courier

Patrick Schwarzenegger is firmly rejecting the “nepo baby” label, describing hustling to make it as an actor regardless of being raised by world-renowned film star and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The youthful Schwarzenegger, 31, began performing professionally on a constant foundation in 2012 and presently stars as Saxon Ratliff, the entitled and athletic son of a rich patriarch (Jason Isaacs), within the third season of HBO’s standard comedy-drama anthology sequence “The White Lotus.”

He informed The Sunday Instances final week that “there are people who’ll say I only got this role because of who my dad is.”

“They’re not seeing that I’ve had ten years of acting classes, put on [high] school plays every week, worked on my characters for hours on end or the hundreds of rejected auditions I’ve been on,” the actor stated of his social media critics.

“Of course, it’s frustrating and you can get boxed in and you think at that moment, I wish I didn’t have my last name,” he continued. “But that’s a small moment. I would never trade my life with anyone. I’m very fortunate to have the life and family that I have.”

Schwarzenegger expressed appreciation for his dad and mom “and the lessons and values they’ve instilled” in him. His mom, Maria Shriver, is a niece of late former President John F. Kennedy.

The “nepo baby” discourse surrounding privileged celeb youngsters has prompted quite a lot of reactions over time. Some, like Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid’s son, actor Jack Quaid, have had no drawback accepting the label — whereas others have been a bit extra defensive.

In the meantime, whereas social media customers have been prepared to acknowledge that the youthful Schwarzenegger might have labored laborious to land his newest function, they weren’t swayed by recommendations that he’s a self-made man.

“It’s the opportunities you get not the role itself bud,” one particular person wrote on X, previously Twitter, with one other commenting: “The part he left out is not having to work during his 10 years of acting classes. All the difference in the world. Nothing wrong with that, btw.”