James Paxton

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James I've experienced this movie I literally cannot wait to stand outside of theaters right now and and to really listen to what people are going to be saying because my wife and I were laughing we were we had such a great time with this movie and and this is what she says she says that was one of the sweetest movies I've ever seen and and I just I I love that because you guys really did make a real authentic Hollywood movie here

Oh my gosh, Arrow.

Thank you.

And hey, a good playlist doesn't hurt either.

The name of the movie, Last Train to Fortune.

And please don't forget that James Paxton also has music.

Please look him up on Spotify, iHeartRadio, or even YouTube.

I wanna...

I'm Adam Rifkin, for those who don't know, and this is the great James Paxton-

Hey, guys

... costar of Last Train To Fortune-

It's very funny.

It stars James Paxton and Bernadette Peters and even Mary Steenburgen.

It's opening this weekend.

And Malcolm McDowell gives an incredibly physical performance in a deeply funny Western.

We were getting together socially, really, and he said, what do you think about that Western? And I went, oh, my God, that's so long ago.

You know, I've always loved that script.

Why don't we get James Paxton to play the gunslinger? And that's what we did.

And we read it around my kitchen table.

I'm Niall Brown.

Director Adam Rifkin and actor James Paxton joined this episode of the podcast to talk about their new film, Last Train to Fortune.

Also starring Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, Bernadette Peters and Laura Murano, Rifkin's film is a comedy western that plays with the genre's well-worn tropes, but it does so with a good heart and good characterisation.

As I say in our discussion, it's like the type of film Disney would have made in the 1990s.

And this cast is amazing.

James Paxton, you do such a great job in this, and congratulations on this role.

Talk to me a little bit about Jedediah and putting on his skin.

Thank you, Tony.

I mean, these are amazing actors and they do so well because they understand the comedy in this.

Yes, it's true.

When you work with seasoned pros who just get it, they understand, they know that And I count James Paxton in the category of season pro, by the way.

They understand these characters inside and out.

And honestly, uh, it's...

We're finishing up post-production right now, and it stars James Paxton, Ruby Modine, Cody Saintgnue.

Oh my God, it's like, it's so intense.

It's gonna be so good.

Mm-hmm.

And I'm really, really lucky that a bunch of the, like, I wanna call them, like, the titans, like, the old guys that my dad worked with, like, Robert Brinkmann and Ray Pesci came on to work on the film.

And, like, I grew up with James Paxton.

He's the son of Bill Paxton.

... my notes get a little sketchy, it's 'cause I was like, "Bill Paxton.

James Paxton, I think is the son's name." It's also a Major League Baseball pitcher's name.

I'm googling, like, James Paxton lanterns.

There's a baseball card that says lanterns of James Paxton, the, the baseball player.

I'm like, "No, I'm not looking for this.

I'm looking for if it's the son." So I went down a...