While chatting with his movie star father, Arnold Schwarzenegger, for Variety’s "Actors on Actors " interview published on Tuesday, Patrick discussed the challenges of being seen as an actor in his own right. Patrick’s mother, Maria Shriver, is a journalist and member of the Shriver and Kennedy families.

A name like Schwarzenegger can blow a door open. In a recent conversation with his famous father, Arnold Schwarzenegger, “White Lotus” actor Patrick Schwarzenegger explained how it can also cast a long shadow.