According to the Omaha World Herald:

“About 2,500 people, mostly women, came out to meet the vampire dad.

Photographs were $40 and autographs $25. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the American Red Cross Nashville Flood Relief fund.

It was also announced that Facinelli would donate a portion of the funds to help areas of Nebraska damaged by recent flooding.

“I love when people come together,” Facinelli said. “If we can redirect that love to charities, that’s a powerful thing.”

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TY to Christina for the heads up!

Peter Facinelli, with daughter Fiona in his arms, talks about Eclipse in Disneyland.

The Omaha World Herald interviewed Peter Facinelli. Peter is in town for a signing with proceeds going to Nashville flood relief.

“Q. Did you have a late night partying at the MTV Awards?

A. We’re on the West Coast so everything ended early. I went to the after-party. Then I had to get home to make sure (my kids) didn’t watch the MTV Awards.

Q. Tell me about your acceptance speech for the “Twilight” win at the awards. (Facinelli dropped one too many vulgarities — some of which couldn’t be bleeped in time — when accepting the best movie prize for ”New Moon.”)

A. I’m not going to make any apologies for thanking Justin Bieber.

Q. What should fans expect with the next “Twilight” film? Did you think the series would be this huge?

A. When we started the film series, we definitely knew there was a fan base. But we had no idea it was going to explode. We were facing an uphill battle because everyone has their own vision of the movie in their head. We just wanted to go out and make our version and hope that people liked it. We had no idea we would get the response that we did.

Q. What do you think worked so well?

A. I’d have to give the credit to Catherine Hardwicke (director of the first “Twilight” film) for setting the tone. If the tone had been wrong, the film could have failed miserably. So I give a lot of credit to her for setting that edgy tone. It was a tricky thing. People love the books. I give a lot of credit to Stephenie Meyer for creating that world.”

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Peter Facinelli spoke to Access Hollywood about his personal feeling regarding shifts in cast members (avoided when Ashely Greene and Kellan Lutz signed on for Breaking Dawn) and directors.

Peter on replacement cast members:

“I thought that would be really weird to have to act against other people and all of a sudden those are your family members…I’m glad it all worked out,” Peter said. “I think it would have been silly in the end if, or it would have watered down the franchise if all of a sudden we had a whole new family.”

Peter on changing directors each film:

“It’s exciting. To be able to jump from that talent pool to another talent, from one talent to another like that, it’s great because you get a whole new perspective, it’s fresh,” he said. “You don’t get complacent because you’ve done three movies with the same director and all of a sudden it’s like, ‘OK, let’s do this again…It’s probably more scary for the director to come in,” Peter added. “They have big shoes to fill from the last director that made the franchise successful and a lot more people will putting your movie under a microscope.”

See the whole story on Access Hollywood.