Patrick Schwarzenegger’s Climb to Stardom Leads to His First Lead Film Role in ‘The Journeyman’

By Gregg Goldstein

Gregg Goldstein

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He’s had a long, slow climb to film stardom, but these days, it’s never been better to be “White Lotus” actor Patrick Schwarzenegger. “This is my first time home in six months,” says the 33-year-old, who married his longtime girlfriend, model Abby Champion, last year. “It’s really nice to have a bit of time here [in California] before I leave in three weeks for another six months!” Schwarzenegger is flying to Puerto Rico to play the title role in Ángel Manuel Soto’s crime thriller “The Journeyman” from AGC Studios, which is producing and fully financing the project. It’s the first film he’s ever done that revolves around his character, a struggling tennis player Schwarzenegger says is “at his wits’ end with his career” when he’s approached about fixing his matches. Leslie Grace plays his devoted fiancée. He’s been training for two months with a pro tennis player. “I’m used to how I grew up with my dad: a lot of weight training,” he says. “And now it’s training to get less muscular looking, and a more lengthy kind of tennis build.”

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