| Twilight's Peter Facinelli: fated to be a vampire |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 1 October 2008 by Don |
Actor Peter Facinelli can thanks his lucky stars he bought a book on 50 years of vampire movies and mailed it to Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke. He sent her the book after he'd auditioned unsuccessfully for the role of Carlisle, the doctor patriach of the Cullen family of vampires, with a note saying, "Hey, maybe this can inspire you while doing the movie." It turned out the actor whom Catherine had cast originally, who was 10 years older than Facinelli, went to work on another movie, and the director offered him the role. "As I've told Catherine, I bought my way into Twilight for $29.90," said Facinelli, 34, who had worked mostly in TV (most recently in the series Damages) and in a few movies including The Scorpion King and Riding in Cars With Boys. Facinelli told MTV about the scenes he did when the cast was called back for additional shooting. His bit showed the Cullens meeting an Indian tribe on their land and signing a treaty, which gave him the chance to speak several lines in native American. He doesn't know if that dialogue made the final cut: for that we'll have to wait until the movie opens here on December 11.  |
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