MTV: PETER FACINELLI SHARES A KEY ‘NEW MOON’ LINE – BUT NOT IN CHARACTER
MTV’s Larry Carroll has an interview with Peter Facinelli where he discusses his favorite line in New Moon, but insists he cannot do it in character.
MTV: So, Peter, as we get closer to the “New Moon” release, are you excited to see the final product?Peter Facinelli: Yeah, I dig the clips that I’ve seen. I’m excited to see what Chris Weitz has put together. I’m looking forward — as a fan of the books and a fan of the movies — to seeing it myself.
MTV: We’ve been asking your co-stars to give us their favorite “New Moon” line in character. Can you do yours?
Facinelli: Oh, wow. Now I have to reach back a whole year and try to remember my lines from a year ago, when I can barely remember my lines the day of. … OK, here we go: “Like everything else in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given.” That’s a line that Carlisle says.
MTV: OK, cool. But can you do it in character?
Facinelli: No. [Laughs.] Then, you gotta pay me. If I’m gonna act, you better pay me, Larry Carroll!
MTV: All right, we’ll take down your address and have every fan send you a quarter.
Facinelli: You know, I don’t even know if I can do Carlisle on the spot like that.
MTV: Really?
Facinelli: No. That takes time and preparation.
MTV: Well, we certainly don’t want to reduce you to a Vegas-like thing. Like you’re doing an Elvis imitation.
Facinelli: [Laughs.] No, no. Really, in order to play those roles, you have to get into the whole spirit of the character. I have to have on my white makeup and my contact lenses, otherwise it just doesn’t work. Otherwise, it looks like Peter Facinelli trying to play something; it’s weird. But I could say that’s one of my favorite lines from “New Moon”: “Like everything else in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given.” But that’s me saying it, not Carlisle. [In "New Moon"] Carlisle says it, and it’s very Carlisle-esque.
MTV: Well, then, tell us about the day you got to deliver the line on the “New Moon” set. Was it everything you had hoped it would be?
Facinelli: I hope so. God, I hope so. You know, it was a line that wasn’t in the script. It was in the book, and I asked Chris Weitz if we could put it in the movie, because I liked that line.
MTV: Really?
Facinelli: Yeah, and so we worked it into the stitching scene with Bella. It was in the book with Bella, when I was stitching her up. It’s just a line that I always liked.
Read the entire interview here.
I love Peter, he has the best wit and sense of humor!
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