The New York Post spoke to Peter Facinelli about his fanbase:

“PW: With “Nurse Jackie” and the “Twilight” films raising your profile are you finding that the fanbase is changing as well?
Peter: What’s fun for me is that fans are now going back and discovering my older work. To see the different things I’ve done. It’s opened up the door for them to enjoy the eclectic performances I’ve put together over the years.

PW: So, Mike Dexter lives on?
Peter: [laughs] He definitely lives on. Actually I was at the supermarket and some guy came up to me and said, “you’re in movies, right? What movie are you in?” I said,” Um, ‘Twilight?’” and he goes, “No … ‘Can’t Hardly Wait!’ You’re Mike Dexter!” [laughs] I loved that. So Mike definitely lives on and it’s such a compliment to have done a character 12 years ago that’s still etched in people’s minds. To me that means I did a good job.

PW: Would you like the chance to go back and revisit a character you’ve previously played to bring the second part of their story to life?
Peter: I feel like everything I’ve done has been complete. Well, “Fastlane” went out on a cliffhanger, that was a really fun character for me. I always thought it would be cool to do a movie. Everything else has been pretty complete. Well … there is 300 years of history to Carlisle Cullen before he even started this family. There’s a lot to that character, it could be fun to explore that.”

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EW talked to Peter Facinelli about the current season of Nurse Jackie and Breaking Dawn:

“Anything you can tease to us about it? I hear the wedding scene is grand.
The wedding scene, first of all, was really beautiful. The way the set was decorated, the way they lit it. It’s in the backyard of the Cullen house, and they utilized the space really well. For us as actors, it was hard because it was raining the whole time we shot, but you’ll never see it on film. For us, it was raining and muddy, but on film, it will look beautiful. In the baseball sequence [from the first movie], it rained the whole time, but you can’t tell.

How did you magically stay dry?
It’s very difficult. I remember the first day [on the first film], we were in the midst of shooting, and they said [to the director Catherine Hardwicke], ‘”What do you want to do Catherine?” So they started passing out baseball hats to anyone whose hair looked too wet. It was movie magic; you never see it. It has to rain really hard for it to read on film.

Give me a visual tease of the wedding, for the wedding geeks, like yours truly.
It looks very magical. It was a real treat to be able to watch the two of them get married. It was a longtime coming, this wedding. It didn’t disappoint me when we shot it, so I think it will be magical.”

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The Futon Critic talked to Peter Facinelli about shooting Nurse Jackie and shooting comedies and dramas:

“JH: You do a lot of comedy in ‘Nurse Jackie’ but you’ve also done darker dramas like ‘Damages’ or even the ‘Twilight’ movies. Is there a major switch you have to flip to get into those more dramatic roles?

PF: They’re different muscles but I enjoy being able to explore the different muscles. For me, I like being able to go and do something dramatic and then the next project do something completely different. If I had to do three dramatic roles in a row I’d get bored pretty quick. I’m happy right now because I have something where I can do more comedy but even on ‘Nurse Jackie’ the more dramatic I am on that show the more Coop is funny. I don’t try to play things for laughs but I just play them as real as can be. In some scenes I’ll go and break down and cry and it’s hysterical.”

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MTV had the chance to talk to Peter Facinelli about Paul McDonald doing the soundtrack for his movie Loosies. They slipped in a couple of Breaking Dawn questions while they had him on the phone. This was our favorite:

“Although he couldn’t go into too much detail, we asked Facinelli to describe the heavily hyped wedding scene for us.

“Beautiful and spectacular,” he said. “It’s funny, because whenever we have a big important scene on ‘Twilight’ [movies], it rains. I was doing the baseball sequence [from ‘Twilight’], and it was raining. But you never see it on film,” he said of the filmmaking crew’s movie magic. “With this wedding, it rained the whole time we shot the two scenes. But you’ll never see it on film, they block out the rain. They put tarps up and you’ll never see it. But for us, it was very wet and muddy and cold.”

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As part of the PR for the new season of Nurse Jackie, Peter Facinelli discusses where we left off with Dr. Cooper last season.

According to the Wausau Daily Herald, Peter Facinelli will be appearing for photos and autographs on Saturday March 12 in Sheboyban, WI.  The event will take place at Memorial Mall from noon until 5 pm.  Autographs are $25 and photos are $40.  All proceeds will go to Alex’s Lemonade Stand.

UPDATE: One of our readers just pointed out that the event has been cancelled due to a personal issue.  It will be rescheduled later.

We couldn’t tweet Peter’s Q & A from the official Twilight Tour because we had to leave to catch our plane back to the East Coast. However, Team Twilight did a great job of summarizing what Peter said:

“‘Did you know that Peter laid on top of Catherine during his audition and shouted at Robert to get the venum out? Peter thought it would look weird if anyone walked in on that scene. LOL!!

Peter said if he was younger he would have loved to play Edward.

Peter says the family scenes are like one big party. And loves those scenes in every twilight movie.

It was Peter’s idea to drop Edward during the Eclipse fight training. He thought Carlisle should one up Edward cause he’s older.”

Check out the full story on Team Twilight.