Aimee Lou Wooden has jumped to the defence of her White Lotus co-star Patrick Schwarzenegger amid the continuing dialog about nepotism in Hollywood.
On Sunday, the Bafta winner reacted to a clip of Patrick from an interview with the podcast Actual Pod earlier this 12 months, during which he mentioned the “nepo child” label that has been used towards him prior to now because of the reality his dad and mom are motion star Arnold Schwarzenegger and the journalist Maria Shriver.
Within the video – reposted by Web page Six – Patrick may very well be heard lamenting: “[There’ll be] individuals which might be like ‘oh, he solely bought the function as a result of his dad’s within the trade’. There’ll be different folks that’ll say, ‘properly, I ponder what his dad paid to get him that job?’.
“What am I going to do? Persuade all these folks that that’s not true? It’s simply such a waste of my power.”
He continued: “I’m by no means, ever going to persuade everyone on the market that I work onerous, that I’ve my very own values in life, that I need to make my very own identify for myself – that I don’t do medicine, that I’m not a screw-up, that I’m not a foul, imply individual, that I’m not all these various things.
“You’re by no means going to persuade [them] and everybody’s at all times going to have their opinion of you, it doesn’t matter what.”
Aimee – who struck up a friendship with Patrick whereas working collectively on The White Lotus – reposted the clip on Monday, describing her colleague because the “hardest-working” and “kindest man ever”.
Following this, the pair walked the purple carpet on the 2025 Met Gala collectively, with Patrick providing to reach on the occasion together with her to assist ease her nerves, as he’d already been twice earlier than.
“Patrick, thank god, was like, ‘I’m going… lets go collectively within the automotive?’, and I used to be like, ‘sure please!’,” she recalled to E! Information. “So we got here within the automotive collectively, and that’s made every part loads much less scary.
“I at all times say that I feel he was my dad in a previous life, as a result of I simply instantly really feel so secure with him. He’s the most secure, kindest individual, he’s so stable, you simply can’t really feel nervous or scared when Patrick’s round. He’s simply, actually, essentially the most pure individual, I can’t describe it.”
Patrick additionally instructed Selection: “I heard Aimee was coming and I instantly texted her and I mentioned, ‘can we please go collectively? I’m so nervous’. And she or he was like, ‘I used to be going to textual content you an identical factor’. I used to be like, ‘excellent’.
“So, we met up, I went to her resort, and we confirmed up collectively. It’s nice. It takes the nerves out of it that you’ve an actual good friend to come back with.”
