Awwww.....why Bill Paxton Rocks!!!!! :)

[jules]

Creators/Writers (Scheffer & Olsen) were in a radio interview yesterday and were asked questions about Bill Paxton playing "Bill Henrickson."
They asked what Bill Paxton thought about his character (Bill Henrickson) dying...

Apparently, Bill Paxton really had a hard time with it... I think this makes Bill Paxton more "awesome" than he already is. He really brought the character of "Bill Henrickson" to life. I applaud him for his years of "genius" in playing that character.

Here is an excerpt of that interview. At the end of it is the link to the entire article.

On telling Bill Paxton that his character was going to be shot to death


Scheffer: "We were in the room when Bill read the script. ... Bill wasn't happy."

Olsen: "Initially, we should say. Initially, Bill had trouble that his character was going to die. It's not how he envisioned the end of his character's journey nor the end of the series. And he just had a big problem with it — I think he had a vested relationship with the character of Bill Henrickson, and he feels, rightfully so, that he has husbanded that character for five years, and it hurt him to know that that character was going to die. We explained what we were going for, and he got it. But it took about a week or two for Bill to come around and see it differently."

www.npr.org/2011/03/21/134661696/big-loves-creators-deconstruct-the-shows-finale

[KimLA]

I have to say, as sad as I am to see this happen to Bill Henrickson, Bill Paxton did an amazing job with that last scene! WOW.

Bill was always able to triumph over his enemies, he has been in endless situations that could have put his life in danger, and yet he is murdered by the neighbor over re-sodding a lawn. Sad. I mean, if Hollis Green couldn't get the job done, how in the world did Carl?!!!

[writerwannabe]

Mar 22, 2011 10:20:32 GMT -5 @KimLA said:

I have to say, as sad as I am to see this happen to Bill Henrickson, Bill Paxton did an amazing job with that last scene! WOW.

Bill was always able to triumph over his enemies, he has been in endless situations that could have put his life in danger, and yet he is murdered by the neighbor over re-sodding a lawn. Sad. I mean, if Hollis Green couldn't get the job done, how in the world did Carl?!!!

Bill's assassination by Carl is a classic literary device that often plays out in real life. Bill was not Carl's enemy, he was just a target for Carl's misery and frustration over his (Carl's) perceived failure as a man and, in his case, a Mormon. Great leaders are not assassinated by their enemies, that would represent the triumph of evil over good. Leaders are killed by an insignificant person seeking the coward's way to glory. Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, the Manson girl who tried to shoot Reagan, the kid who shot the Arizona congresswoman.

The writers say that with Carl they were trying to illustrate the damage caused when the society puts unrealistically high expectations on people and then fails to provide support in meeting those expectations. In Carl's case, it was his failure to live up to the ideals of a LDS man. He's done everything right, and Bill has done everything wrong, in Carl's mind, so Bill's death was just incidental to Carl's sense of himself as a failed person.

[jules]

;D Thanks Betheaz!