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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Patrick Schwarzenegger Admits White Lotus Creator Mike White Worried He’d Be Labeled a Nepo Baby for Getting the Role · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: While Patrick Schwarzenegger has been acting for a few years now,
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  Speaker 2: his career has really taken off since his breakout role
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  Speaker 2: in the most recent season of White Lotus, but it
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  Speaker 2: hasn't come without criticism over Patrick even landing the role,
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  Speaker 2: with claims the only reason he got it was because
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  Speaker 2: of his dad being Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Patrick just admitted
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  Speaker 2: to Variety that White Lotus's creator, Mike White expressed after
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  Speaker 2: casting him he feared that's exactly what happened. Patrick says,
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  Speaker 2: Mike said, it comes with big baggage, the idea when
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  Speaker 2: you have successful parents like I do, there's an added
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  Speaker 2: level of what other people think. They did care about that.
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  Speaker 2: People said I got the role because of my mom
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  Speaker 2: and dad. It took a while for me to get
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  Speaker 2: to a point where I was less worried about living
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  Speaker 2: in my dad's shadow versus wanting to handle my career
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  Speaker 2: the way I thought I should do it. Patrick Swarzenegger there,
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  Speaker 2: who confessed he almost adopted an alias, but his dad, Arnold,
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  Speaker 2: now proud of him for keeping the family name while
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  Speaker 2: still forging his path in his own way. White Lotus
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  Speaker 2: is on HBO Max, that's
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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.