Peter Facinelli to young to play Carlisle Cullen?

Twilight star Peter Facinelli almost lost out on the chance to play vampire family patriarch Carlisle Cullen - because producers were looking for someone older.
Facinelli felt sure he'd missed out on his chance to star in the film franchise because of his age - and he reveals the role was actually handed to another leading actor.
He says, "I went in and I read with Catherine (director Hardwicke) and I thought it went well and then I didn't get the part. They offered it to somebody else because they were afraid that I looked too young next to the other cast members, so they were going to go older with this other actor.

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Peter Facinelli in DA MAN magazine

He can certainly act, but he’s no one-hit wonder, he’s an ‘All-Rounder’. He can write, he’s a budding filmmaker and he’s a doting father. You may know him as Dr. Coop on the TV show Nurse Jackie, or Dr. Carlisle Cullen, the ‘father’ of the Cullen clan in the Twilight film franchise, but here is a side of 37-year-old New Yorker Peter Facinelli that you may not have seen: fashionable. By Refa Koetin and Salli Paradisio

Peter Facinelli was born in a working-class neighborhood of New York—Ozone Park, Queens—which is the former home of legendary writer Jack Kerouac and the birthplace of the likes of pop singer Cyndi Lauper and mafia don John Gotti.
Facinelli is a first-generation Italian-American, who first got into acting in school, later studying drama full time at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School under the tutelage of top-shelf actors William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman. Facinelli began his professional acting career at the age of 22 in a film called Angela.
A year later, he co-starred with Jennie Garth in An Unfinished Affair and, as fate would have it, Jennie and Peter got married and now have three daughters. Facinelli’s big break came in the TV drama Fastlane (2002-2003), in which he played the lead role of Van Ray.
Next up was accolades for the TV show Six Feet Under, and indie film Arc before being cast as Dr. Carlisle Cullen for the first Twilight film in 2008. Since then, it’s been a whirlwind for Facinelli, but he stays grounded with the help of his four girls at home.

DA MAN: We’ve read that you attended a theater school and had the likes of William H. Macy as a teacher? That must’ve been amazing. What was that like?
Peter Facinelli: William H. Macy was a guest lecturer and brought along Felicity Huffman when he would do lectures. As a young actor you’re looking to these people who have done prestigious work and it was very inspirational.

DA MAN: How much has your life changed after starring in the Twilight franchise?
Peter Facinelli: My life hasn’t changed much, just gotten a lot busier!

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