“He’s The Son Of A Famous Movie Star”: Jason Isaacs Got Real About His Low Expectations Of Patrick Schwarzenegger Before “The White Lotus”

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It’s no secret that there’s a bit of a negative implication that comes with being a nepo baby in Hollywood. And so, when Jason Isaacs found out that he’d be working with Patrick Schwarzenegger on The White Lotus, he was a little apprehensive.

If the last name wasn’t enough of a giveaway, Patrick is the eldest son of Hollywood icon-turned-politician and businessperson Arnold Schwarzenegger and journalist, author, and Kennedy family member, Maria Shriver.

On Season 3 of The White Lotus, Jason played the wealthy but troubled patriarch of the Ratliff family, Timothy, and Patrick played Saxon, the eldest of his three children. During a recent appearance on the Table Manners podcast, Jason revealed that he and his onscreen kids from the series got pretty close over the course of the seven months they spent shooting in Thailand.

“You know who I charmed up with? It’s my kids. Patrick, Sam [Nivola], Sarah Catherine [Hook], became like my kids, you know, by proxy, and I fell madly in love with them,” he said when asked about who he was closest to in the cast.

After revealing that he and his White Lotus kids still “text each other all the time,” Jason admitted he misjudged Patrick before they bonded. “I didn’t expect Patrick to be nice because he’s the son of a famous movie star,” he said, “and he’s such a fabulous, grounded person.”

Funnily enough, I don’t think Jason was the only person to be pleasantly surprised by Patrick. When The White Lotus Season 3 first premiered in February, the 31-year-old copped some criticism for his questionable comments on nepotism during an interview with the Sunday Times. However, within just a few weeks, he’d won himself a new legion of fans and was hailed as one of the standout performers on the series.

Notably, Jason was one of the people to publicly defend Patrick amid all the nepotism backlash, calling him “one of the nicest, most grounded, humble, lovely people” he’d ever met. “He knows exactly who his dad is, and he loves him for what he is,” he said during a Virgin Radio interview in March. “But he knows who he is, he’s not blinded to his faults as well. He’s just a really wonderful young man.”

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