‘Twilight’ star grateful for intense fans
Peter Facinelli plays Carlisle Cullen, the father of the vampire clan around which the plot of the Twilight saga swirls. He’s a veteran actor with a career stretching back over 15 years, and since taking on the Twilight role, he’s embraced the fan community by releasing an iPhone app that “bites” your friends, altering their likenesses into vampire style, and staying in contact with followers through Twitter and online chats. He’ll be at the convention this weekend to sign autographs and pose for photo ops, and he took a few moments to tell us what it’s like living inside the Twilight storm.
What are these conventions like for you?
Whenever you have something in common and get together and share your excitement, it’s a great thing. There are Q-and-As with the actors; you get to take pictures with them, get autographs, signatures with them. For me, it’s a fun way to connect with the fans and just have a moment where they can ask questions.
I’m a fan of the books, and I actually enjoy getting together with other fans of the books. When I was a kid growing up, if I looked up to somebody, if I could have been sitting down with Paul Newman to talk about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, that would have been really exciting. I look at it the other way around now, being able to sit down with fans of the movies. I love to be able to give back, in that sense.
Is it intimidating, having to answer questions from such a well-informed fan base?
They’re trying to get your take on how you approach the character. It’s more along the lines of what they don’t know: What were our favorite scenes to film, what it was like working with the directors. It’s not so much quizzing for details, but filling in some of the gaps of the things they don’t know.
When you’re in between projects and you move on to other projects, you can forget some of the details, but while I’m shooting, I’m the foremost expert on the books and the fans. I’ll go back and reread the books three or four times before we start the next one.
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