How Now, Steve's Tao?

Among movies opening in U.S. theaters this weekend are Highlander: Endgame starring Adrian Paul; Whipped starring Amanda Peete, and The Tao of Steve, reports CBS News Early Show Contributor Laurie Hibberd.

In The Tao of Steve, Donal Logue plays Dex, an overweight kindergarten teacher who uses a twisted version of Eastern philosophy to get women. Logue says the tao of Steve can be applied to anything.

"It's about being a better person, and when you are, good things happen to you," he explains.

Actually, the film, which is chiefly about picking up women, was directed and co-written by a woman, Jennifr Goodman.

"It didn't just give some kind of like crude, vulgar version of what men think about women… It was really…well thought out, and there was a lot of respect for both points of view," says Logue.

For the role, Logue put on 30 pounds and wore a fat pad. But he says it's all part of the job.

"It's funny, because actors always get way too many props the second they do anything like that," he says. "Cameron Diaz made herself unattractive in Being John Malkovich. Well, she's an actor. That should be something you embrace thoroughly, you know? And it really surprises me when actors I know don't want to go to a place where they don't appear as attractive as they can."

So, appearing unattractive was no problem. But making himself an irresponsible jerk required a little more effort.

"I think I went through the journey that Dex went through a long time ago," he says. "So, ironically, when we were making The Tao of Steve and it's about this guy who can't commit to anything…I was staying all night with my five-month-old while my girlfriend took the day shift. So my life couldn't have been more un-Dex like."

Logue has done more than 40 films in the last 10 years. This year alone, Logue has appeared in six films altogether, including Mel Gibson's epic The Patriot and the action flick Reindeer Games.

For his role in The Tao of Steve, he won an honorary performance award at the Sundance Film Festival.

His next project is a weekly television show for Fox. He's happy about it because he can work and go home every night to his girlfriend and baby daughter.

Although it's the fourth film in the Highlander movie series, it is the first in which Paul is appearing with Christopher Lambert.

Paul tells CBS News Early Show Co-Anchor Jane Clayson that he thinks Highlander is popular because "it's got a lot of stuff in it -- romance, action, history."

The devoted fans of the series are faithful attendees at Highlander conventions, and the Internet is packed with sites dedicated to the eries.

Paul himself got into acting through his interest in dancing.

He explains, "I used to dance. I did stage work, mime and somebody said, 'You should act.' I said, 'All right, maybe I should try it.' I started studying in England, then to New York and Los Angeles."

Paul also has directed several installments of the Highlander TV show, including the landmark 100th episode.