Joseph Baena Has A Pretty Good Reason Why He Doesn't Use His Dad Arnold Schwarznegger's Last Name

    "My dad is a stallion."

    Larry Fitzmaurice
    by Larry Fitzmaurice

    BuzzFeed Staff

    You might not have known this, but actor Joseph Baena is actually Arnold Schwarzenegger's son.

    Baena poses at a step-and-repeat with a hand in his pocket
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    But wait — if Joseph Baena is Arnold Schwarzenegger's son, then why doesn't he call himself Joseph Schwarzenegger? Good question.

    Baena walks down the street
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    Baena recently explained why he doesn't take his dad's last name in an interview with E! News. “There’s a few different variables in that,” he said.

    Baena stands next to a car
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    “But that’s just not my main priority at the moment, so I’m just focused on building myself up and building my career in acting and real estate and just focusing on that right now.”

    But Baena was quick to acknowledge that he "[looks] up to" his dad, Ah-nold. "My dad is a stallion. He’s a man’s man, I like to think."

    "[I]n a way, he’s influenced a lot of things: the path that I have taken with acting, with fitness and my physique and the many other things that I’m doing.”

    Check out the whole interview here.