Patrick Schwarzenegger Says ‘It’s Frustrating’ That People Think He Got His Role on The White Lotus Because of His Parents

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  3. Seriously, who’d want that sort of thing rubbed in their face?

    Can’t they at least wait until he’s out of the room before bringing that up, if only out of respect for his dad?

  4. Nepotard complains about people calling him nepotard. More at 6

  5. Of course people don’t think he got it because of his parents!

    Just his dad

  7. It’s frustrating to have extremely advantageous nepotistic connections. So annoying that you can just get coveted roles because you were born to the right family.

  9. I saw the first episode, which one is he playing? That horn dog guy from North Carolina?

  10. I’m sure actors without any connections who have been struggling for years for their big break really feel for him.

  11. Probably because he got the role because of his parents.

  14. Ah. I was wondering why a terrible actor made it onto the show. Now I know.

  15. Both can be true.

    He can be super talented and he could have received the job because of his name

  19. I don’t think he’s clocking that even if he genuinely got this particular role because they felt he was the perfect embodiment of the part, the fact that he was even able to get into the room for this, is still because of his parents.

    There are plenty of super talented actors that never, ever have the opportunity to be in front of the right people to advance their career in the first place.

    His parents gave him the land for his house, even if he eventually built the house himself.

    These people really need to just own it instead of whining.

  20. What will guarantee the casting of talented, yet relatively unknown and unconnected actors to a mid- to high-budget project?

  21. It was his performance in Grown Ups 2 that got him the part.

  23. Having famous parents won’t get you the role but it will get you in the audition room. That’s a massive advantage in this industry.

  24. Totally unfair. Everyone knows he got the role because of his brother-in-law. /s

  25. At some point nepotism babies make it on their own. They get a leg up and advantage in the industry because of their parents but longevity is due to talent (real or perceived). He’s been acting for about 10 years now. I think we can say he got it because they wanted him not as any favors to his parents.

    Nepobabies who have no talent wash out pretty quickly and either stop acting or do low budget stuff (see someone like Scott Eastwood who is relegated to only B movies now or Jaden Smith who quit all together)

  28. He needs to go watch Jack Quaid’s interviews and admitting his parents’ fame that got him his roles.

  30. “They’re not seeing that I’ve had 10 years of acting classes … worked on my characters for hours on end or the hundreds of rejected auditions I’ve been on.”

    Lol, this has to be a parody right?

  31. “You can get boxed in, and you think at that moment, I wish I didn’t have my last name,”

    No one is forcing him to not get credited under a stage name

  32. Apparently he got the role for giving Mike White some favours let’s be real

  33. Nah bro, take the Jack Quaid way of handling this. Admit that it opened doors for you.

  35. Not just getting the role but decades of help along the way- Private schools, special connections, elite parental shepherding, not having to worry about income while you train and show up for auditions…. And then the name. If he was so concerned why didn’t he change his name?

  36. I don’t think he got the specific role because of his father but he has an acting career because of his father. So many of these people think that they would have been in the business even if they didn’t have celebrity parent but they don’t realize how lucky you have to be to make it in the industry 

  37. I mean, look, he probably had to try out and hiring him shows some level of faith in his abilities, no doubt.

    But the number of hurdles he cleared because of his dad? C’mon man.

  40. Don’t go into acting then if you don’t want people to think that. Do literally anything else outside of the entertainment business.

  41. Seeing as he would be a bonafide nobody without his last name shows how disconnected from reality he is. Remove the last name and the convenient thumbnail with his daddy and the best he could EVER do is maybe as a contestant on the Price Is Right.

  42. He is very talented, I’ll give him that, but his parents can open almost any door in the country for him on name recognition alone. Arnold made his name globally famous. Everyone knows that last name wherever this kid goes for the rest of his life

  43. He did. Unless he hid his name on the paperwork, he absolutely did. I don’t care if he’s a brilliant actor a shit one, the name helped.

  44. I think we are splitting hairs a bit. He got considered for the role because of his fame which he has because of his parents. If he sucked, he wouldn’t have gotten the role, so it’s true that there’s a frustrating element but he should embrace the other part because he sounds like an a-hole.

  45. Then change your last name to Smith and see what happens.

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