Why Did Peter Facinelli Write and Star in ‘Loosies’? Because “as an actor you have very little power”

Believe it or not, Twilight star Peter Facinelli has much bigger ambitions than starring in one of the biggest blockbuster film series of the last several years. Now that he’s finished filming his role in the series — the final film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 will be released in November — Facinelli is tackling his own projects. 

He wrote and stars in Loosies, a film set in his native New York City. Facinelli spoke to the Wall Street Journal about that experience, and whether not he plans on leaving acting behind.

Facinelli spent seven years trying to securing financing for the film — but oddly it only took him three weeks to write the script.  He explains, “The writing part was easy. I had thought about this story for so long until I couldn’t think about it anymore. Even sometimes I just rode the subway and wondered what it would be like to do a pick-pocket film here. I daydreamed. And then I had to pour it out on paper. That’s the process I go through when I write. I’ve written four scripts and we’ve made two of them now. The producer hat was a little bit harder to wear than the writer hat. I had the film set up three times with different actors and a different director and it would fall apart. A financier would get antsy and would take his money someplace else. So it was a great lesson in patience and perseverance.”  Read more

Peter Facinelli Discusses the Difference Between Acting for Film and Television

Peter Facinelli is currently playing two very different types of doctors; Dr. Fitch ‘Coop’ Cooper on Showtime’s Nurse Jackie and vampire-turned-doctor Carlisle Cullen in the Twilight franchise.

The roles themselves are diverse, but Facinelli also notices major differences between acting for film and acting for the small screen.

He told the Los Angeles Times that television is not nearly as finite and cut and dry as film, saying, “In television you don’t really know where you’re going to be in Episode 7. It keeps it fresh in the sense that you only know what your character is going to do that week, and you’re not exactly sure how it will develop.”

With Nurse Jackie, he says that “It’s kind of fun for me because sometimes I’ll pick the writer’s brain and what’s going on with Coop for the season and they have a rough idea. They don’t really like to tell us, but sometimes they’ll spill some info — it’s almost like going to a medium and they’re telling you your future. But things can change. They’ll throw you a curveball. It keeps you on your toes.”

Screenplay: Twilight Eclipse

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Director: David Slade

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Peter Facinelli, Jackson Rathbone, Elizabeth Reaser