Peter Facinelli heads home for the holidays

iVillage was able to interview Peter Facinelli where he talked about his family, relationships and Twilight. Here is an excerpt:

The Twilight Saga has such a huge fan base. Has the experience been crazy so far?
I’m a fan of the books, too, so I understand their passion for the project and the movies. And I’m excited to be a part of the franchise and be able to have a say in how it’s made.

Are you constantly getting stopped on the street?
It’s helpful that in the movie I have blond hair and in real life I don’t. I’m able to get around a little easier than some of the others. That said, the fans know me by now and what I do look like, so I do get approached quite often.

Have you had any crazy fan requests?
Yeah, you get the, “Can you bite me?” a lot. Once in awhile I’ll bite them on the wrist for a picture. It’s fun, you know. The whole series is fun to be a part of. It’s great that they’re so excited about these movies. It would be worse if they were throwing tomatoes at us, you know what I mean?

Did you draw on your own fatherhood experience for your role as Carlisle Cullen?
Whenever you take on a role there are things you connect with and things you have to research, and for me, being a patriarch of a family came naturally. I have a family of my own and so I understood what it was like. So it was more about working on who Carlisle was as a person and where his travels have taken him and how to get 350 years onto the screen.

Did you take on a father-figure role with your younger castmates?
I think in the first movie I was more fatherly towards them, because when you meet up with the other actors you kind of see them as their characters and they take on traits of their characters. So everyone kind of fell into who they are in the family, and my role was the patriarch. But as they got to know me more, I became more like the older brother kind of figure.

Do you all really get along?
We’re pretty much a family on and off set. After work we enjoy each other’s company. We go out to dinners. We had this experience together. There were no egos involved when we started Twilight, and there are still no egos involved, and that’s kind of nice to see that people’s heads haven’t grown. They’re still the same people we started the journey with.

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