So if there isn’t anybody behind it or if their track record is bad, it’s more likely than not that it will be bad because of the people behind it. I learned a long time ago that I might like a script, but it’s a team effort. PF: You know, I have boxes that I would like for it to check like, have I played this role before? Who else is involved in the project? For the first few years, I just had pretzels for lunch and in my senior year, I said, “I’m a senior, I’m going to have a burger!”Ĭreatively, how do you decide whether you’re going to take on a project? Do you have a certain kind of criteria that you look for and how does that process look like to you? I went to a school with 3,500 kids so it was intimidating to be in a lunchline with kids and those that were older than me. So I would go to the opposite end of the cafeteria where this little old lady sold pretzels so I would get a pretzel and an orange juice and would sit down so that nobody would look at me. In high school, I was too shy to get into the lunchline to buy hamburgers. I transferred over to NYU and I studied theater there and started working before I graduated.ĪM: We would have never pegged you tobe somebody that was shy. It helped me overcome my shyness actually. Then, when I was in college, I took an Acting 101 class and I fell in love all over again with it.

I didn’t really do a lot of school plays or anything like that. Then I kind of mentioned it to my parents and they kind of laughed at it because we didn’t know anybody in the business at the time. I thought, “man, I want to be able to do that!” It would be fun to be able to pretend to be a cowboy one day. PETER FACINELLI: That must have been when I was around 12, I saw a movie called Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and I just really enjoyed it and I kind of thought that Paul Newman and Robert Redford were having the best time and having so much fun. We caught up with Peter to find out about how he got into the entertainment industry, his work in front of and behind the camera as well as how he has optimized his time during the pandemic and what we should keep an eye out for.ĪTHLEISURE MAG: When did you realize that you wanted to be in the entertainment industry? We've enjoyed his body of work which spans movies such as the Twilight franchise, Can't Hardly Wait, and The Vanished as well as television series that include Showtime's Nurse Jackie, Fox's Glee and Fastlane. This month's cover and feature story is with actor, producer, director and writer, Peter Facinelli.

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