Peter Facinelli Talks ‘Twilight’ to Fredericksburg.com
Fredericksburg.com caught up with our Twilight Doc, Peter Facinelli, on his trip for the weekend. Peter will be at the Spotsylvania Towne Centre to sign autographs for Alex’s Lemonade Stand on Saturday, but took the time for an interview and a short little quiz. Read more below:
It’s hard to imagine now, but the crowds weren’t always there. While filming the first movie in Oregon, Facinelli said he and fellow actors Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson could grab dinner in local restaurants and no one batted an eye.
“We could’ve been doing a cookie commercial. Nobody cared we were doing this movie,” he said. “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.”
Even after that, the dark-haired Facinelli said he often wasn’t recognized in public. In real life, he’s a young-looking 36 with a healthy glow about him. It takes up to two hours in a makeup chair to transform the actor into Carlisle Cullen, a 350-year-old vampire with bleach-blond hair and pale, shimmery skin.
Of course nowadays, admirers have no problem picking the L.A. resident out of a crowd. He’s happy to sign autographs and pose for photos, though he’d rather not pretend he’s biting someone. For the most part, he said, fans are friendly and supportive.
“They’re very polite about it,” he said. “I feel bad for Rob Pattinson. He can’t walk anywhere. I can still walk through a mall and people recognize me, but it isn’t like the whole mall is staring at me.”
Many of the fans he meets are young, which doesn’t faze Facinelli at all. His own daughters are 13, 7 and 3.
While his oldest enjoys the books, she won’t wear the film merchandise since her dad’s in the movies, he said.
When he’s home, he’s the assistant coach for her soccer team.
“I’ll go to some mall and have all these people standing in line. When I’m on the field with these 13-year-old girls, they don’t care that I’m Carlisle,” he said. “I’m the guy who makes them run laps.”
Read the entire interview and quiz at Fredericksburg.com here.
