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Metro
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Arnold Schwarzenegger fans shocked by Hollywood legend's comments about son's ‘weenie'
Arnold Schwarzenegger has left fans red-faced after getting candid with his son about filming nude scenes. The legendary action star, 77, sat down with son Patrick, 31, for a wide-ranging interview that covered everything from nepotism, Terminator, and the drive to become the biggest star of all time. Yet it's Arnie's comments about Patrick's full frontal scene in The White Lotus season 3 that have left fans aghast. During the interview, which was part of Variety's Actors on Actors series, the Last Action Hero star admitted to being shocked by seeing his son's 'weenie' on TV. 'I couldn't believe [it],' he laughed. '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.' Following the interview's publication, however, a number of the star's fans have taken to social media to say how uncomfortable it made them feel. @Harrioson588 wrote on X, 'Absolutely weird and inappropriate. This should not even have been talked about privately, let alone on a public platform.' Meanwhile, @Sassy_0x posted 'They are so wild and weird and creepy,' a feeling echoed by @MayanBronze, who claimed the interview was 'Sooo Creepy….Not funny!' @livnerys, however, went one step further, claiming 'this whole family is weird tbh'. Despite the backlash, there are those who saw the fun side in the pair's exchange. 'Arnold's just being a dad—hilarious and awkward in the best way,' wrote @xpert_growth on X. 'The weenie comment got me [crying with laughter emoji]'. People on Reddit felt the same way with DefinitelytheNSA commenting, 'Watching this whole interview, it was really great to see those father-son moments. You can tell Arnold is really proud of how well his son is doing.' SonofTreehorn added, 'Had no intention of listening to this entire interview. Ended up being a really great discussion that I couldn't turn off. You can feel the love and respect these two have for each other.' Arnie's not the only one of Patrick's parents to let us know how they felt about that nude scene. Patrick's mum, Maria Shriver, 69, laughed off the scene during an appearance on The Jamie Kern Lima Show. 'People are like, 'Oh my God, you saw!' [and] I'm like, 'I give birth to him'. It's not such a, you know, I've seen him naked,' she explained. 'I've seen him naked since he was a baby.' While his parents might be able to laugh off the shock, Patrick has admitted to being caught off guard by the 'extent' of his nakedness. 'I didn't know to what extent [there would be nakedness]. 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. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you.
Metro
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Arnold Schwarzenegger fans shocked by his comments about son's 'weenie'
Arnold Schwarzenegger has left fans red-faced after getting candid with his son about filming nude scenes. The legendary action star, 77, sat down with son Patrick, 31, for a wide-ranging interview that covered everything from nepotism, Terminator, and the drive to become the biggest star of all time. Yet it's Arnie's comments about Patrick's full frontal scene in The White Lotus season 3 that have left fans aghast. During the interview, which was part of Variety's Actors on Actors series, the Last Action Hero star admitted to being shocked by seeing his son's 'weenie' on TV. 'I couldn't believe [it],' he laughed. '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.' Following the interview's publication, however, a number of the star's fans have taken to social media to say how uncomfortable it made them feel. @Harrioson588 wrote on X, 'Absolutely weird and inappropriate. This should not even have been talked about privately, let alone on a public platform.' Meanwhile, @Sassy_0x posted 'They are so wild and weird and creepy,' a feeling echoed by @MayanBronze, who claimed the interview was 'Sooo Creepy….Not funny!' @livnerys, however, went one step further, claiming 'this whole family is weird tbh'. Despite the backlash, there are those who saw the fun side in the pair's exchange. 'Arnold's just being a dad—hilarious and awkward in the best way,' wrote @xpert_growth on X. 'The weenie comment got me [crying with laughter emoji]'. People on Reddit felt the same way with DefinitelytheNSA commenting, 'Watching this whole interview, it was really great to see those father-son moments. You can tell Arnold is really proud of how well his son is doing.' SonofTreehorn added, 'Had no intention of listening to this entire interview. Ended up being a really great discussion that I couldn't turn off. You can feel the love and respect these two have for each other.' Arnie's not the only one of Patrick's parents to let us know how they felt about that nude scene. Patrick's mum, Maria Shriver, 69, laughed off the scene during an appearance on The Jamie Kern Lima Show. 'People are like, 'Oh my God, you saw!' [and] I'm like, 'I give birth to him'. It's not such a, you know, I've seen him naked,' she explained. 'I've seen him naked since he was a baby.' While his parents might be able to laugh off the shock, Patrick has admitted to being caught off guard by the 'extent' of his nakedness. 'I didn't know to what extent [there would be nakedness]. 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. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. View More » MORE: Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to rewrite one of the most famous lines in movie history MORE: The White Lotus fans terrified season 4 will be delayed after major announcement MORE: Netflix star calls 'dark' show 'very different to what I was used to'
The Guardian
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Pink smoke, pigs and Pixar: a dozen movie Easter eggs to feast on
One of Hollywood's most durable Easter eggs debuted in Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday (1940) when Cary Grant's character says: 'The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat!' And in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) his character sits pensively in a cemetery where Archie Leach's gravestone is to be seen. In Charles Crichton's A Fish Called Wanda (1988), John Cleese's character is called Archie Leach. Leach is, of course, the real name of Cary Grant – a very goofy and unglamorous sounding name compared with the sonorous 'Cary Grant' – and a rare example of Hollywood alluding to the open secret of rebranding its stars and effacing the bland ordinariness of their origins. Peter Bradshaw My children dragged me to A Minecraft Movie recently. Packed screening. Loads of kids. A little way into the film, a pig crossed the screen wearing a crown, and a collective 'Awww' rose from the audience. For the life of me I couldn't understand why, and then my 10-year-old leaned over and explained it. The pig was the profile picture of Technoblade, a wildly influential Minecraft YouTuber who died in 2022. It was a sweet touch, both acknowledging Technoblade and the importance of the wider YouTube community to the game's success. Didn't like the film, but it was a nice touch. Stuart Heritage I'm a sucker for a fake trailer – the most delectable of ways the movie industry can disappear up its own fundament. So while the ones for the ecclesiastical Brokeback Mountain, AKA Satan's Alley, from Tropic Thunder and Edgar Wright's faux Britsploitation horror Don't, from Grindhouse, occasionally pop up in my head, it's Arnold Schwarzenegger's Hamlet from 1993's Last Action Hero that lives there rent-free. As 90s Hollywood was getting hip to postmodernism, this is a perfectly executed mashup of high and low culture, with the meathead as an Uzi-toting sweet prince, his payoff lines burning as bright as his stogie tip: 'Not to be!' And now surely the time is right for Arnie's Lear: 'As flies to wanton badasses are we to the gods / They kill us for their sport!' Phil Hoad Last Action Hero is a parody of the action genre so crammed with indiscriminate references to other films it's virtually one Easter egg after another. Mainstream audiences would have recognised nods to Basic Instinct, Amadeus, The Seventh Seal (already parodied in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) et al, but are less likely to have clocked the screenwriters' homage to Akira Kurosawa's High and Low (1963). Alas, Arnold Schwarzenegger spotting the telltale pink smoke produced by incinerated banknotes somehow lacks the impact of Kurosawa's burning briefcases sending pink smoke into a grey sky, the only touch of colour in an otherwise black and white film. Anne Billson My childhood spanned the golden Pixar era: I was six when Toy Story came out and 20 by Up. I knew their films were different from other kids' fare because my grownup relatives loved them (Toy Story was my grandpa's favourite film). An ITV documentary on the making of 2001's Monsters, Inc. taught me why. It introduced me to the concept of Easter eggs: how the studio loved to reference itself and, moreover, cinema history. The rotund green monster Mike Wazowski and his snake-haired girlfriend Celia Mae go on a date to the restaurant Harryhausen's, which the doc revealed was named after Jason and the Argonauts animator Ray Harryhausen – something I knew nothing about aged 12. When you're young, films feel like closed worlds designed just for you. The realisation that they were actually part of a vast history, and that they contained layers below the surface, made me gawp, and I'm certain it stoked the interest in learning how things are made that I now get to pursue for a living. Laura Snapes I adored last year's film adaptation of Wicked – to the bafflement of a number of my friends and colleagues, who had found the film long, confusing and generally 'a bit much'. Which I get. Because if you weren't a musicals-obsessed seven-year-old when the original production became the latest Broadway sensation, I appreciate that the film might not have hit in quite the same way. But Wicked was unapologetically a film for the fans, and the breathless excitement of my seven-year-old self was awakened when Broadway's original Elphaba, every 00s theatre kid's icon Idina Menzel, sings the famous 'ah-ah-ah-ah' run of notes from Defying Gravity in her cameo appearance. It's testament to Cynthia Erivo's talent that when at the end of the film she sings them again, in their proper place, they're just as arresting. Lucy Knight Predator 2 – Stephen Hopkins' urban sequel to John McTiernan and Arnold Schwarzenegger's arboreal shoot-em-up – is a far more interesting film than it's often given credit for. It isn't a patch on the peerless original, of course, and only the maniacal would claim otherwise. But Danny Glover's haggard and really quite terrified detective is a far more interesting protagonist than an invincible bodybuilder brandishing a gun the size of his own leg, and the film is content, for better and worse, to do its own thing, critics be damned. One of its finest diversions from the first movie comes at the climax, when Glover's Lieutenant Harrigan finds himself aboard the extraterrestrial game hunter's spaceship. There, he discovers a wall festooned with trophies from the beast's previous hunts, and given centre stage is the ossified, banana-like skull of a xenomorph, the acid-blooded chief biters of the Alien franchise. This brief nod implied a vast, shared cinematic universe before such things were drearily commonplace, and suggested that one day we would see these two enthusiasts of gory space violence face off. Sadly, that dream was infinitely preferable to the reality of the two Alien vs. Predator films that resulted, which are only slightly less unpleasant than slamming your fingers in a door. But let's just forget about those. Luke Holland My favourite Spielberg Easter egg is in virtually every summer film of his, from Duel through Jurassic Park: his monster-in-the-rearview-mirror shot. You may remember it best from Close Encounters: Richard Dreyfuss waves on the lights he sees in his rearview mirror only for them to go up and over his truck. Dreyfuss said he could hear the audience react when he read that in the script. But ideally the two bodies, pursuer and pushed, are in motion: Indy using his rvm to spy a Nazi climbing along the side of his truck in Raiders, Dennis Weaver doing the same for the monster truck in Duel, or Bob Peck spying a T rex catching up with his 4x4 in Jurassic Park. Spielberg even includes the warning 'objects may be closer than they appear'. The visceral intent of every chase scene of his in just seven words. Tom Shone Admittedly, 'what a clever nod to Colin Firth/Mark Darcy' wasn't my first reaction when Leo Woodall emerged from the pool in a soaking wet white shirt in Bridget Jones 4. But I did appreciate the nostalgia for fans who have loved Bridge for 25 years. It wasn't the only thing that brought back the best memories with our favourite spinster: blue string soup cocktails, awful dinner parties with smug marrieds, Bridget's newfound knowledge of Chechnya, the massive knickers and a snowy end-of-film snog. The most special, though, was Darcy's son wearing his dad's reindeer jumper. Hollie Richardson One moment you are youthful beauty personified. The next, you are white-bearded and crinkled, and your once-worshipped visage is being staved in with a mallet. Björn Andrésen was 15 when he played the sailor-suited twink in Luchino Visconti's 1971 adaptation of Death in Venice, and 63 when he stepped off a cliff as a human sacrifice in Ari Aster's sunlit horror Midsommar. (The jump didn't finish him off: hence the mallet.) His cameo represents a highpoint in the tradition of the casting Easter egg. Andrésen, whose life was ruined by Death in Venice and the ensuing adoration, must have relished destroying the face that started it all. Ryan Gilbey My favourite series as a slightly nerdy teen was Spaced, Channel 4's homage-heavy flatshare sitcom, so I felt bereft when it was announced that the show would end after just two series. But there was a mega consolation prize on offer: a big-screen outing for Spaced's creator and cast, in the form of Shaun of the Dead. In the main, while I enjoyed Shaun, it didn't quite live up to its predecessor – marauding zombies weren't as funny as bickering Robot Wars contestants or a man dressed as a vacuum doing performance art – but I did appreciate a blink-and-you'll-miss it Spaced Easter egg at the film's climax: there, among a horde of the undead, was a zombified version of Tyres, the sitcom's wild-eyed bike messenger raver, still wearing his little yellow cycling cap and listening to thumping techno through his wraparound headphones. Gwilym Mumford Some Easter eggs are sly nods, others lazy studio cross-promotion, but The Lego Batman Movie (2017) dropped one so audacious it deserves its own Bat-signal. In a gloriously meta montage, Alfred dryly recalls his master's 'weird phases', including 1966's dance-happy caper and the infamous Bat-nipple debacle, effectively canonising every previous cinematic dark knight as just chaotic footnotes in this Lego loner's emotional scrapbook. Keaton, Kilmer, Clooney – all downgraded to painful fashion faux pas in the life of one emotionally constipated minifig. Which means Batman & Robin wasn't a cinematic travesty - it was Lego Batman's rebellious club-kid phase, complete with rubber codpiece and lashes of neon regret. Ben Child
New York Times
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Yankees bold predictions: Aaron Judge hits 60 home runs, Cody Bellinger opts out
'You can't predict baseball, Suzyn.' This year, New York Yankees legendary radio voice John Sterling won't be around to utter that catchphrase to color commentator Suzyn Waldman, who's a legend in her own right. Sterling has retired, and veteran broadcaster Dave Sims has taken his place. Still, the point stands. Baseball is too wild, too random. Forecasting what may happen at Yankee Stadium or any of the 30 ballparks across the league is a fool's errand. Advertisement So, call me a fool. I'm here with six predictions for the 2025 Yankees season. But before we get to this year's batch of predictions, let's look at how we fared last year. For fun, let's assign an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie quote to each outcome, since Thursday's Opening Day at Yankee Stadium might kick off a blockbuster season. We said: Yankees will sign Juan Soto for $600 million. What happened: Yikes. Soto took $765 million to move to Queens, of all places. Arnold says: 'Hasta la vista, baby.' — 'Terminator 2' We said: The Yankees will use only 19 injured list stints. What happened: Nope. They had 23 players make 27 total appearances on the IL. Arnold says: 'Rubber baby buggy bumpers!'— 'Last Action Hero' We said: Anthony Rizzo will win Comeback Player of the Year. What happened: Oh, no. Rizzo had perhaps his worst season (-0.2 fWAR), and he doesn't have a job right now. Arnold says: 'Get to the chopper!' — 'Predator' We said: Luis Gil will have the second-highest fWAR for all Yankees pitchers. What happened: Bingo. Gil totaled a 2.2 fWAR — second only to Nestor Cortes Jr. — and won the American League Rookie of the Year. Arnold says: 'I'll be back.' — 'Terminator' We said: Austin Wells will be a Rookie of the Year finalist. What happened: Boom. Wells finished third in the AL ROY vote. Arnold says: 'Are these all your lunches? You mean you eat other people's lunches? Stop it!' — Kindergarten Cop We said: Giancarlo Stanton plays 130 games, hits 35-plus home runs. What happened: Not bad. Stanton played 117 games and hit 27 home runs. Arnold says: 'Come with me if you want to live.' — 'Terminator 2' We'll call that going 2-for-6 — not a bad day at the plate. Now, onto this year's predictions … Let's get a little more precise: 60 home runs for Aaron Judge, 30 for Cody Bellinger, 25 for Paul Goldschmidt. Look, I expect Judge to have another monster year, especially considering he knows how important it is for him to stay healthy with all the injuries the Yankees have already suffered. Bellinger remembers that the first pro stadium he hit a home run in was Yankee Stadium in 2011 or 2012, when he was still in high school playing for a Yankees scout team, and he'll have his ex-Yankees infielder father, Clay, in attendance on Opening Day to start this journey. Goldschmidt had a cranky back in the middle of spring training, but he says he felt miles better at the plate this spring than he did last year. Advertisement Expect a big year from Bellinger, who knows the short porch is calling his name and who will be motivated to do better than the $25 million remaining on his deal for next season. The Yankees didn't trade with the Houston Astros for Kyle Tucker this winter because they didn't want to give up Gil (plus more) and possibly run into another Soto situation, in which they surrender a young, high-end starter for a one-year rental. But this winter, they almost surely will chase Tucker, one of the best lefty hitters in the game, who's set to become a free agent after this season. Max Fried was as advertised this spring, honing his seven-pitch mix and picking the mind of Yankees legend Ron Guidry on how to succeed in New York City. Without Cole, Fried becomes the Yankees' No. 1, and for the $218 million deal they gave him this offseason, that's not an unfair request. In Atlanta, Fried had a reputation for being cool under pressure. With an improved Yankees defense behind him, he should be a ground ball machine, working lots of quick innings and pitching deep into games. Side prediction: His dog, Apollo Fried, becomes a mini celebrity. Wells mashed this spring, and while he wasn't necessarily expecting this winter to be without mentor Jose Trevino, the Yankees believe Wells is prepared to jump into the starting role without a safety net. Plus, he took to leading off with aplomb. He led off in 15 of the 16 games he played and homered six times. Already having proven he's one of the game's better pitch framers, Wells will get it done on both sides of the ball and help carry the Yankees' offense early in the absence of Stanton. It might be his last chance. What if some form of the automated ball-strike system comes to the majors next regular season? What if, starting in 2026, he gets fewer chances to stick it to umpires who are sticking it to his 'savages in the box' because the closest calls get flipped via a challenge system? It might be now or never for Boone, one of the most colorful umpire battlers in the game. His career high for ejections in a season is seven. We're taking the over. Sorry, Yankees fans. You're going to have to wear losing Soto a little longer. He loves big moments. He loves getting booed. He once soaked in the good energy at Yankee Stadium. He's going to love blasting a home run into the right field short porch in the first inning on May 16, his first time back at his old stomping grounds. When this happens, I will screenshot it, tweet it and be insufferable. By the way, when all these turn out to be 100 percent accurate, I'm going to have one question for you: 'Who is your daddy and what does he do?'
