Rob Lowe says his late friend and Frank and Jesse costar Bill Paxton still keeps up with him from the other side.
During Thursday’s episode of Lowe’s Literally podcast, the Parks and Rec alum explained that Paxton — who died at 61 after suffering complications following a heart procedure in 2017 — often checks in with him whenever he goes for a psychic reading.
“Do you ever have people in your life that you think would come up in readings that just don’t make as much of an appearance?” Lowe asked guest Kelsey Grammer. “For example, my mother rarely shows up. Rarely. And then I have the great actor Bill Paxton, who was a great friend, and that f—ing guy is everywhere all the time. He’s everywhere.”
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Rob Lowe and Bill Paxton in ‘Frank and Jesse’
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“Is he really!?” Grammer asked. “Oh, that’s great. I liked him a lot.”
“He’s everywhere!” Lowe teased. “He’s [going], ‘Well, God, I heard you and Kelsey on that podcast. God, you guys are talking about everything!’”
Grammer noted that he was delighted to hear that Paxton — who once made a cameo appearance on season 10 of Frasier as a celebrity caller — and his presence could still be felt after his sudden death. The Twister actor died after suffering a stroke, which occurred 11 days after he underwent surgery to repair a heart valve and aorta damage in 2017. A wrongful death lawsuit was settled by his family in 2022.
“Well, you know, I’ve thought about him some and thought about his energy and how it was probably a real surprise to be, ‘What am I, dead?’” Grammer asked. “‘What, what, what’s happened here? You know, what, what the hell?’ I don’t know what he was in there for, but it was obviously a procedure that was not meant to end up in that way.”
He also had nothing but positive things to say about Paxton’s filmography. “I sure liked his work. I mean, he was so funny,” he said. “And in Aliens, when he was — I mean, he was great.”
Quoting Paxton in the 1986 film, Lowe jokingly interjected, “Game over, man. Game all over.”
“He’s so funny in it. He just had really, really terrific, you know, energy. And I think that, I dunno why that would disappear,” Grammer added. “Of course, it didn’t. So, you know I get that.”
Lowe previously revealed in a 2023 episode of his podcast that he was once visited by Paxton — who played his outlaw brother in the 1994 Western Frank and Jesse — after his death in a dream. “In the dream — it’s super real — Bill walks into the room and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, Bill doesn’t know he’s dead. How do I tell him?’” He recalled. “He’s like, ‘Hey, man, how are you? God, I’ve been so busy. I’ve been coming back and forth!’”
He then said that Paxton offered to show him the other side of the veil. “He took me, and then the next thing I know… I don’t have a body, but I’m exactly still me — I’m thinking the same, I have the same interests, everything is the same. Everything. Except I’m flying and I’m not in my body,” Lowe explained. “And I’m with Bill and he’s not there anymore either, but he’s there, and we’re flying and it looks like a cross between FernGully and the land of Avatar.”
Lowe noted that he was so overwhelmed by the sheer amount of love that he felt in that moment that he began to weep before eventually being roused from his slumber. He added, “I woke up going, ‘Oh, well… I have no illusions at all about what the next chapter is.'”
Watch Lowe discuss reconnecting with Paxton in his psyching readings in the clip above.
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