James Paxton found it "emotional" being on the set of 'Twisters'. The 30-year-old actor makes a brief appearance in the sequel to 1996's 'Twister' - which starred his late father Bill Paxton - and he admitted it took him a long time to "process" his feelings when he was on set. He told Entertainment Weekly: “It took me a little bit of time to process it, just given the context of my dad and his significance in the original and him not being here.
“It’s an emotional thing. It wasn’t something that I could really decide immediately, It took a little time just to process it, just the magnitude of it.” James "wanted to be a conduit" for the spirit of his dad - who died in 2017 aged 61 after suffering a stroke following heart surgery - and to "cheer everyone in this production on to success" because he knew that's what Bill would be doing.
He added: "I wanted to do something that really honours his presence in this new chapter and really do something for him. "And I realised there’s a lot of amazing people involved in this that I would love to get to know. And so it ended up feeling like the right thing to do, to be representative of Dad there.
” The 'Cleaner' actor loves being able to pay homage to his dad in his work and feels connected to him when he's on a set. James - who previously played an alternate version of John Garrett, his father’s 'Agents of S.H.
I.E.L.
D.' character - said: “It’s a tricky thing, because my dad was my best friend, and so I never shy .
