The White Lotus<\/em><\/a>. \u201cEvery time we would watch, my family would just be yapping at me: \u2018Why aren\u2019t you in this show? Why didn\u2019t you audition for this show? You need to talk to someone to get you on this show,\u2019\u201d Schwarzenegger says.<\/p>\nWhen he was finally asked to audition for the third season of Mike White\u2019s<\/strong> hit HBO series, he decided not to tell his family in fear of getting their hopes up. Once he had landed the part, though, he revealed the good news at another family dinner. \u201cThey all started crying,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was a really great moment for me.\u201d<\/p>\nSchwarzenegger got to bring the whole crew\u2014including his fianc\u00e9e, Abby Champion;<\/strong> his father, Arnold Schwarzenegger;<\/strong> his mother, Maria Shriver;<\/strong> his sisters, Christina<\/strong> and Katherine;<\/strong> and his brother-in-law, Chris Pratt<\/strong>\u2014to the third season\u2019s world premiere in Los Angeles. There, they finally got to see him step into the world of The White Lotus<\/em> as Saxon Ratliff, son of a rich businessman (Jason Isaacs<\/strong>) who is vacationing with his family at a luxury resort in Thailand.<\/p>\nIn the first episode, which debuted on HBO Sunday, Schwarzenegger\u2019s Saxon stands out among a very crowded ensemble of characters\u2014both for his alpha male bravado, and for the uncomfortable things he says and does around his sister Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook<\/strong>) and brother Lochlan (Sam Nivola<\/strong>). When they\u2019re discussing sleeping arrangements, Saxon says that Lochlan should stay with him because \u201cbrothers and sisters don\u2019t sleep together after they have full-blown\u2026you know\u2026 genitals.\u201d He\u2019s constantly talking about sex (\u201cDude, those long plane rides make me so fucking horny\u201d). As the episode wraps up, he has a heart-to-heart with his brother where he says that their sister is \u201cpretty hot, but I don\u2019t think she\u2019s ever been laid before\u201d before telling Lochlan that he\u2019s going to watch porn in their bathroom. Saxon then struts across the room completely naked, with Lochlan\u2019s gaze lingering a little too long.<\/p>\nClearly, Saxon is driven by his sexuality and unafraid to say anything that comes to his mind. But Schwarzenegger plays this swaggering guy with a playfulness and authenticity that makes even his most outlandish actions and words seem believable. \u201cI think that\u2019s what Mike does so well: As the viewer, you really want to think and be convinced that any person in the show is willing and capable of doing anything,\u201d the actor says.<\/p>\n
Schwarzenegger, whose credits include 2022\u2019s The Staircase<\/em> and 2024\u2019s American Sports Story,<\/em> spoke to Vanity Fair<\/em> about how he landed a role on his dream show, daddy issues, and what he makes of the premiere\u2019s creepy final scene.<\/p>\nVanity Fair:<\/em> How much did you know about the character when you were auditioning?<\/strong><\/p>\nPatrick Schwarzenegger<\/strong>: I knew nothing, really. I knew a one-sentence logline. The show was called something else, \u201cSecret Garden\u201d or something like that. You get the audition sides with one sentence about the character. I think Mike does that in a very purposeful way. He wants to see how you interpret the role with the little information he gives you.<\/p>\nI just kind of took a swing. And I remember my brother-in-law Chris [Pratt] said that the casting director knows within the first whatever seconds if you’re someone that works for the role or not, and make the first five seconds of the audition tape something unique and different. And so I knew this character was going to be this kind of douchey, flirty finance guy that was a despicable human\u2014but also someone that you wanted to root for, and thought was funny in a weird way. And so the first couple seconds of the audition tape, I just was like, for lack of a better word, eye-fucking, or kind of checking out the camera, and then approaching it as if the camera was a girl. And they thought that was really funny and weird and cool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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