Peter Facinelli reflects on 'Twilight' creation, 'Nurse Jackie,' and 'Loosies'

Peter Facinelli wears quite a few different hats. In the Twilight series, he's "Carlisle." In Nurse Jackie, he's the zany "Dr. Cooper." Everywhere else, he's Peter - philanthropist, soccer coach, family man, and writer.
Today from 12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. EST, Peter Facinelli is going to be signing autographs at the Spotsylvania Town Centre in Fredricksburg, Virginia as part of his on-going charity work with Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research, and to prepare for that occasion, he spoke with the local newspaper there.
In the interview, Facinelli looked back on when Twilight (the film) came to be. "We could've been doing a cookie commercial. Nobody cared we were doing this movie . . . We felt a responsibility to make a good movie for the fans of the books. But somewhere between the wrapping of filming and the premiere, that fan base exploded."
Indeed it did. According to Facinelli, though, he has no trouble being a regular guy in spite of his extraordinary popularity.
"I can still walk through a mall and people recognize me, but it isn't like the whole mall is staring at me," he explained. "When I'm on the field with these 13-year-old girls, they don't care that I'm Carlisle . . .I'm the guy who makes them run laps."
Facinelli went on to talk about how much he enjoys the switch-up between his character portrayals of "Carlisle" and "Coop" (note that he filmed The Twilight Saga: Eclipse at the same time as he did Nurse Jackie's second season).
"I like that he [Cooper] is 180 degrees from Carlisle, but has the same occupation. It's interesting to play two doctors so different from each other . . .One is really mature, the patriarch who's solid as a rock. Coop is immature and runs around like he drank five cans of Red Bull. For me to go back and forth between the two characters is a blast."
Finally, Facinelli talked about his experience making Loosies, a movie which he wrote and stars in (just shot in Providence, Rhode Island, according to Facinelli's Twitter page).
"They're so good. I feel blessed to be working with them," he said of the cast. "When you write and produce--and at some point I'd like to direct--you're creating these worlds. You have a hand in it . . . It's like being the coach of a baseball team rather than the second baseman."

From Twilight Examiner 

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