Bill Paxton's "Big Love" Story Times Three

Bill Paxton has been working in the entertainment industry for over 30 years. He has directed, produced and acted in over thirty projects. His latest acting role is as Bill Henrickson, a spiritual, troubled, ambitious family man, married to three wives on the HBO hit "Big Love."

In the show, which is in its third season, Paxton and his three wives live together in a cluster of homes in Utah.

Paxton sat down with The Early Show Saturday Edition co-anchor Chris Wragge to discuss his complex role.

"When they first came to you with this project, was it a tough sell considering it's a polygamist, a guy with three wives? It's a little different, not something you'd see in the mainstream." Wragge said.

"When I heard it was HBO and I heard that Playtone, Tom Hanks' company, were producing it, I thought, there must be something to this. When I read the script, the creators, Mark Olsen, Will Scheffer, had written an amazing pilot. I thought, 'Where do I sign up?'

"You know, I've never really gotten to mix it up with the ladies too much. I always wanted to do kind of romantic parts. You know, usually I'm trying to survive a twister or some natural disaster of some kind. To have an opportunity to do kind of a love story times three, I kind of jumped at the chance," Paxton said.

Paxton also commented on a recent controversial episode (in which he doesn't appear) where the show ended up butting heads with the Mormon Church by portraying the endowment ceremony, a very secretive ritual of the LDS (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).

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