Joseph Baena MICHAEL TRAN/AFP by way of Getty Photographs
Joseph Baena is forging careers in leisure and actual property, and underneath the correct circumstances, the 2 might intersect.
Baena, the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger, spoke to Us Weekly on the premiere of his new film Gunner, which stars Luke Hemsworth and Morgan Freeman.
The movie launched on August 16 and is an motion thriller that follows struggle veteran Lee Gunner (Hemsworth) as he tries to save lots of his sons from a violent drug gang. Baena, 26, performs deputy Wally Harper.
On the premiere, Baena mentioned the potential for someday showing on an actual property actuality present à la Promoting Sundown. He’s open to the thought, so long as the edit is honest.
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“I’ve at all times thought that doing one thing like that, like a actuality present, may take me away from the film profession,” Baena mentioned. “However truthfully, if it’s one thing that’s in good spirits, one thing that’s not so dramatic the place I seem like a weirdo or like a jerk, ? Then I’m tremendous open to it.”
Arnold Schwarzeneggers with son Joseph Baena. Courtesy of Joseph Baena/Instagram
Baena acquired his actual property license in 2021, saying in Could that he would transition from bodybuilding to promoting properties, calling himself “not your common realtor.” He bought his first dwelling in March 2022 in Santa Monica, California.
“Actual property is one thing that I take pleasure in doing and luxuriate in working in,” Baena continued. “I’m additionally working actually exhausting at that. And so, to do a TV present could be nice. You recognize, why not?”
Gunner is Baena’s seventh performing credit score, and he has 4 extra initiatives nonetheless on the way in which. In November, he’ll star alongside Cuba Gooding Jr. in vacation thriller Athena Saves Christmas.
Whether or not Baena retains performing, goes all-in on actual property or dips his toes into actuality TV, he says his father can be supportive.
“[He’s] at all times simply telling me, do the reps, do the work and do the lessons,” he mentioned. “That’s what I’ve been doing and we’re working our means up.”
In performing, it additionally helps to work with two A-list stars, like Freeman and Hemsworth.
“It’s an enormous honor,” Baena mentioned. “I imply, Morgan Freeman … is an unimaginable actor, has so many accolades, and Luke Hemsworth was wonderful to work with. Simply to be in a movie with each of these guys, it’s an enormous factor. It’s an enormous step ahead in my profession. And, , it’s guys that I’ve been watching for a very long time now as I’ve been rising up, particularly Morgan Freeman.”
With reporting by Mariel Turner
