Här får ni en lång och smaskig intervju med Peter Facinelli ;)

How are workouts and filming going up in Vancouver?

Peter: It’s been going great, I just filmed a scene where I’m running through the woods chasing Victoria. They had me on this super-fast treadmill that gets pulled by a truck. That’s how we show vampire speed. Gets kind of tiring, my legs feel like jello after a while. But its fun! The fight training is fun also. This one has a lot of action for us to play.

Is the treadmill easier than the wires?

Peter: It’s just different ways of going about it. I think with the wires, the effect at the end of the day wasn’t as great. So they are just always toying with trying to figure out the best way to show it and make it look real. Because with wires your feet don’t really hit the ground as you’re running, so it can kind of look weird. Since we’ve had two more pictures after Twilight, their main concern is, “hey, let’s take what works, and make it better”. 

Were you this physically fit before training or did you hit the gym regularly before training for the movie?

Peter: I’m off and on with the gym. I don’t like to lift heavy things, but I do do yoga just to keep my muscles toned and stay flexible. When I started this, I had gone on a hamburger binge, so I think I dropped about 10 pounds since I’ve been fight training, and I dropped about 4% body fat in the last month.

Did Kellan doing hot-yoga with you help you with that?

Peter: *laughs* I actually got him into the yoga. He does lift a lot and I said “if you mix the stretching in with the lifting it helps build your muscles”. I just wanted someone to go with, so I kind of convinced him to go. *laughs*

The way that David [Slade] is tweeting, it seems like you guys are filming the movie from the end to the beginning.

Peter: I think we jump around. Whenever you’re filming you jump around a lot. It’s all location dependant.

Do you have anything in common with Carlisle?

Peter: Yeah. I like to think I’m compassionate towards people. And I have a family, so I know what its like to be the patriarch of the family. Those are the two underlying qualities that I think we share.

A few of the other cast members have spoken out and said that they don’t see any reason why the fourth book wouldn’t be adapted to a movie. Are you on the same wavelength as them?

Peter: I’m a fan of the books. I’d like to see all four of them made into a movie, but unfortunately that’s not my decision to make. If the fourth one goes, I’d love to be a part of it. I’m hoping that New Moon does well enough for them to pull the trigger on the fourth book. It was the same thing with Twilight. When we were filming Twilight, we didn’t know if we were actually going to be doing a second movie. We all signed on to do a three-picture deal, but we weren’t going to know until Twilight came out. When Twilight came out and did well, they pushed the green button, and we’re kind of in the same boat with this one. If New Moon does well, and the fans say they want more then we’re hoping that Summit will push the green button on the fourth one. At this point it’s in the fans hands.

I don’t think you’re going to have any problems in that case.

Peter: Great, I hope so. I think the fourth book is really interesting, and it’s a really great family dynamic. I’d love to do it.

It’s a heavy book; you would think it would be a very long movie.

Peter: I think they can trim a lot of fat and still have the same story in there. Stephenie has a lot of detail in the book. Sometimes you can do that visually and not have to explain it. So I’m hoping that it all works out.

Death Cab for Cutie said that they were invited to see a 5-hour long cut of New Moon. Is there a 5-hour long New Moon out there?

Peter: No. *laughs* I don’t even think we shot 5 hours worth of footage. I saw a rough cut of New Moon and it was about 2 hours and 10 minutes, and they were going to go in and shave some time out of that. For me though, I love every minute, the more the better. I was getting chills just watching it on screen, seeing the book come to life.

Have you seen the trailer that was shown at the VMA’s?

Peter: Yes I did! I thought that was great. People don’t think I’m in that, but if you look when Aro breaks the guys neck, I’m actually right in the background. A little fuzzy, but I’m there.

I’m a bit of a Twilight addict.

Peter: Well, I think they’re addicting books to read. I went and read Eclipse like 2 times before we shot this and it didn’t get boring. A lot of times when you read a book you’re like “ugh, I already read this story”, but each time I read it; it just kind of sucks you in.

Has the makeup process become any easier to deal with?

Peter: They toned it down, because in some scenes in Twilight it’s thick. So I know they toned it down, but its still a process. It’s still definitely a process. Its just part of the job, so I get used to it. I don’t dislike it. It’s really fun for me to sit in the makeup trailer in the morning and go through the process and look up, and Carlisle looks so different than I do. It really intrigues me when sit down in the morning and then by the time I’m done I look like a completely different person.  

Do you have any favorite music you like to workout to or listen to in general?

Peter: I like Death Cab for Cutie. It just so happens that they are doing some stuff for New Moon. But I was on the set and we were doing some flashback scenes with the Volturi and I was actually listening to Death Cab for Cutie, everytime.

 I’d love to know more about the causes you work with.

Peter: Ok, great! Alex’s lemonade came to me through my Twitter, and I checked out the website and it kind of really hit me. Because I had just come from the Dornbecker Hospital in Portland and I did a charity event there to raise money for Dornbecker; for the kids that have cancer there. Just seeing their courage and what they went through and then hearing about the family who started Alex’s lemonade and how they lost their kid really made me want to get involved. It was really odd because as I was reading that email, my wife was reading a book that mentioned Alex’s lemonade and she looked over and she went “what are you reading?”, and I said “a website on Alex’s lemonade”, and she showed me her book, and it was a book that mentioned Alex’s lemonade. So it was too bizarre. I felt like there was a sign there for me to jump on board and help out. So I contacted Alex’s lemonade and I said I’d love to be involved with your charity. I try to spread the charities around. I’ve done a blood drive at Dornbeckers, but this one has moved to the front for me. I’m hoping that one day they can find a cure for cancer. Kids should be running through the parks, not sitting in hospitals.

What can people do to get involved?

Peter: It’s a great program too because kids can set up lemonade stands, they can go online and contact Alex’s lemonade and they get sent a kit. I know as a kid I loved doing lemonade stands, and my kids love doing lemonade stands, and now you get to do lemonade stands for a cause. So they send you kits to set up your own lemonade stand and the money that you raise, you donate to Alex’s lemonade. It all started with their child, who had been diagnosed with cancer. She held lemonade stands to try and raise money to find a cure, in hopes that one day a cure would be provided, and then she passed away. So they kind of continued her legacy in doing this, which takes a lot of courage because for the parents to stay involved, is a constant reminder that they lost their child. Yet they continue her legacy in hopes that one day someone else’s kid can benefit from it and survive. So I think that’s wonderful that they turned something that was so devastating to something so positive. Kids of any age can get a lemonade stand sent to them and they just hold the lemonade stand sale and donate the proceeds to Alex’s lemonade. We’re going to have a lemonade stand up at the mall there, and my dad and my niece are going to come help run the lemonade stand and I’m going to sign autographs and take pictures.

Are you excited to be coming back to New York during your visit to Middletown?

Peter: I am! I’ve actually been traveling upstate with my father since I was little. I wanted to go stay up at the cabin my father still has, but I actually have to work on Nurse Jackie in New York on Monday. I’m starting up Nurse Jackie this week, and now I’m going to be doing both Eclipse and Nurse Jackie at the same time. So I’ll be shooting Nurse Jackie for one week, then going back to Eclipse and shooting a week with them. Then three weeks after, I do three days on Eclipse and go and shoot three days of Nurse Jackie. I just go back and forth. I’ll be flying back and forth between New York and Vancouver.

I follow you on twitter, and you're personally one of my favorite people to follow.

Peter: Thank you! It’s a great thing for me because I get to connect with the fans. They’ve been really great to me, so it’s my way of giving back. 

How does it feel to be Mr. World Twitternelli?

Peter: *laughs* What’s great about that is, I get really excited when massive groups of people get together for a common cause, no matter what it is. When I did that bet with Rob DeFranco; here all these people came together for this cause, even though it was silly. It was a silly little bet, but it was a really big lesson to show people, look what happens when people come together for something. I wanted to demonstrate that, and so we turned this little bet into something positive by getting the Affliction clothing store to donate $10,000 to the Christopher Reeve foundation. I wanted to send the message of, “hey, even though you guys came together for this silly little thing, when people come together for a cause, it can be something really powerful and something really positive.” The same thing with World Twitter, they all got behind me and voted for me and then I got voted in.

Have you received the bird yet?

Peter: I have gotten the bird many times, but not from Twitter. *laughs* Usually when I’m driving. *laughs*

Be honest, have you ever gotten a spa treatment with Jennie?

Peter: *laughs* Yes. I think couples massage, and maybe couples facials. When you’re married and you’re wife’s doing something, you just kind of go along for the ride. I’ve gotten a manicure for my wedding, and then for Carlisle I get manicures, because for his character you have to have manicured nails. I like chewing my nails. It takes me every bit of restraint to not bite my nails. I like to self groom.

Is there anyone you would love to work with in the future?

Peter: I’d love to work with Sean Penn and Gary Oldman.

Do you know what the next season of Nurse Jackie is going to be like?

Peter: I’ve read the first two episodes and it kind of picks up where it left off. I can tell you that my character, in episode two, is twittering. I loved it, I thought it was hysterical.

Anything you would like to say to your NY fans?

Peter: I’m coming back home! It’s fun being able to go back for Nurse Jackie because I get to come home. For 3 months out of the year I get to come home and see my sisters, my mom and dad, and my nieces and nephews. So I’m excited! This is also the first signing I’m doing in New York so I hope it goes well, and maybe I’ll do more. 

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