Patrick Schwarzenegger has a superhero physique, and nearly landed a role as one on the big screen.
The actor, currently starring in the latest season of The White Lotus, appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast where he revealed to host Josh Horowitz the various superhero roles he’s tried out for. While he missed landing Homelander in The Boys, Schwarzenegger did score the role of Golden Boy for its spinoff Gen V.
But his most significant audition was likely for James Gunn’s Superman, hitting theaters July 11. “I don’t think I got any feedback. I think it was like, ‘No, not for you,'” he shared about his self-tape audition.
Schwarzenegger, son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, did snag the part of Saxon Ratliff in White Lotus right after his Superman rejection. The actor also discussed his experience with pandemic-era self-tape auditions, and his more recent in-person tryouts for The Idea of You and FX miniseries American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, where he portrayed college football-era Tim Tebow.
“It’s just one person on the screen and when they talk, they’re on it and then you talk and it switches to you,” Schwarzenegger explained about the awkwardness of Zoom auditions. “So, it’s really weird doing a scene with someone because sometimes they’ll be mid talk and you say something, and it’ll switch to you and then it’s really distracting and weird.”
