These are the core qualities of Bill Paxton, both as a man and an actor.
These are the starting points, and every man he played either held fast or strayed from that center.
A true-life good guy.
Anthony Breznican
As delighted as he was to bellow Private Hudsons plaintive wail of Game over, man!
to the crowd, Paxton was also characteristically humble.
I thought, God, I must really besuckinghere,' the actor said.
Its hard to sustain the guy thats always scared.
In retrospect, 30 years later, Im looking and going… you know… yeah, itsokay.
Sigourney Weaver took umbrage on the panel.
she declared, stoking cheers from the crowd: He was brilliant, right?
Jim used the Hudson character and me in the role as kind of a pressure release valve.
Thats exactly what it was, director and writer James Cameron interjected.
Its a measure of the tension of the film on the audience.
You give them the ability to laugh, and that releases the tension so it can build up again.
I just wish I coulda laughed more, Paxton said.
Then you gave him a heroic ending, saving us, Weaver said to the filmmaker.
Its actually one of the things thats not in the script.
You went down fighting, Cameron told Paxton.
And you made up your own dialogue on that.
We spent about four hours in ADR one day trying to figure out what he said.
I still dont know, Jim, Paxton said, shamefaced.
Is it too late?
But he may also,possibly,be right.
He said it had been so long sinceFrailtycame out, he was just glad someone remembered it.
Then he said he was hoping to direct another movie.
Well see, he said.
I really hope it happens.
Now we know it wont.
Weve lost another great storyteller.
But he leaves behind roles both large and small that are unforgettable: The blue-haired punk inTerminator.
The literal pile-of-crap big brother inWeird Science.
Cowardly (then heroic) Private Hudson fromAliens.
These parts may have disappeared without an actor of his charisma.
Youre just a normal guy, a nice, sweet, normal guy.
No, they wont, she assures her once-wholesome husband.
Nobody would ever believe that youd be capable of doing what youve done.
Bill Paxton was a utility player.
The internet is currently flooded with stories of his generosity to fans.
I was fortunate to witness to some of that, too.
They liked him so much, they even named their pug Paxton.
At the end, he posed for this photo.
I wish we had a picture of his face when he found out Paxton the pug was a girl!
Today, those two fans are among many who are grieving.
while in Hall H and the crowd went wild.
His face held genuine joy and appreciation.
My logic knows otherwise, but that was part of his talent.
But shes wrong about that part.
