Arnold Schwarzenegger shocks fans with 'weird and creepy' remark about seeing son Patrick naked on screen
Arnold Schwarzenegger made his son Patrick blush while talking about watching him bare it all in season three of HBO 's hit drama The White Lotus.
During Variety's Actors on Actors series, the father and son duo spoke candidly about everything from the level of scrutiny Patrick faces as a ' nepo baby ' to making the decision to do full-frontal nudity for the biggest roles of their careers.
After Arnold, 77, reflected on appearing nude in both The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Patrick, 31, reminded him he's 'done it' too.
'I couldn't believe [it]. I said to myself, 'I'm watching your show, and I'm watching your butt sticking out there.' And all of a sudden, I see the weenie. What is going on here? This is crazy!' Arnold recalled.
Despite initially feeling taken aback after seeing Patrick naked in The White Lotus, he quickly reminded himself: 'Well, Arnold, hello. You did the same thing in Conan and Terminator, so don't complain about it.'
Still, he quipped: 'It was a shock to me that you were following my footsteps so closely.'
Patrick went on to sidestep talking any further about his nude scene as he pivoted the conversation to how they've both worked with some of Hollywood's biggest directors.
The moment sparked a plethora of reactions on social media as many dubbed it bizarre and uncomfortable that Arnold commented about seeing his son in the buff.
'Arnold's just being a dad—hilarious and awkward in the best way. 'The weenie' comment got me [crying with laughter emoji],' one X user tweeted.
Another wrote: 'They are so wild and weird and creepy.'
'When your dad's the Terminator, even your nudity gets a performance review!' a third joked.
Despite Arnold ruffling some feathers, others praised them for 'interviewing each other and talking about weenies.'
Others called that portion of the interview 'the funniest part of the whole segment.'
'You gotta admire the bluntness though. No sugar-coating, just "Yo, what's going on here?!" That's the kinda dad commentary reality TV NEEDS more of,' another insisted.
In addition to having Arnold publicly react to his nude scene, Patrick's mom Maria Shriver recently did as well.
When asked about seeing her son's full-frontal scene, the journalist, 69, laughed off the awkward question.
'People are like, "Oh my God, you saw!" [and] I'm like, 'I gave birth to him.' It's not such a, you know, I've seen him naked,' she mused. 'I've seen him naked since he was a baby.'
In February, Patrick's brother-in-law Chris Pratt also confessed to not looking away at his package in those revealing The White Lotus scenes.
'I know where my eyes went—I'm not blood-related to him, I was looking at that d**k, bro,' Pratt joked to E! News. 'No, he looks amazing. Obviously, he's a physical specimen, but also he's a really solid actor, because the character he's playing is completely different than who he is.'
Following the release of The White Lotus, Patrick admitted he didn't know the 'extent' of the nakedness that his role as Saxon Ratliff required before agreeing to it.
'You do the auditions but you don't see the full script so you don't have all the details, then they ask you, "Are you comfortable with nudity?" when you sign on,' he told The Sunday Times Style Magazine.
Patrick defended the gratuitous nudity revolving his character as he pointed out his 'character, from start to finish, is ridiculous and the type of person who absolutely would walk around his room naked without a care in the world.'
'He's the guy who, whenever he sees a girl at the pool, he's going to flirt with them whether it's a mom or a 22-year-old,' he stressed.
In order to accept his part in the series, which was filmed in Thailand over a period of seven months, Patrick pushed back his own wedding to fiancée Abby Champion.
After informing his bride-to-be about having to delay their walk down the aisle, Patrick gushed on The Drew Barrymore Show that Champion was very supportive.
'She was so happy,' he said. 'She was ecstatic because she was a huge fan.'
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