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I dont know if Ill have a better friend than Bill Paxton, says Frost, also 62.
He had a kind of buoyancy and vibrant nature that makes it inconceivable to think he could be gone.
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They had a common, dear friend, Miguel Ferrer, who passed away last month.
I have never worked with a director who was more committed to getting every single detail exactly right.
He had studied with and was really a kind of protege to his great friend Jim Cameron.
TheAliensandTitanicdirector offered assistance to Paxton onGreatest Game, looking at rough cuts and providing advice.
He was a sort of godfather to us on that movie.
Frost attributes Paxtons screen presence to a deeply felt passion for art and innate character.
He was a true artist in the best sense of the word.
He had that in his blood, says Frost.
And as a friend, he was unfailingly loyal, he continues.
He was a gentleman in the best sense of the word.
He had this wonderful, almost 19th century, idea of what a friend should be.
He wrote beautiful, handwritten letters.
He cared about them.
He was a model for what a person in our business should be.
He made every set he was on a better place.
And he made every picture he was in a better picture.
Not just with his performance but with his presence.
I loved him like a brother.
He was a force of nature.
I know audiences loved him.
And there was a reason for that.
He was a genuinely good person and an absolutely fine human being.
And Ill miss him to the end of my days.
