New interview with Peter Facinelli: Loosies & Twilight

Peter Facinelli wrote and produced his new film, “Loosie,” but is better known as the strict, serious doctor in the “Twilight” series and the father of Robert Pattison—yeah, right, his father. But in the vampire world anything is possible. In his new film, as James Brown would say, Peter’s got a brand new bag. And in his bag is stolen loot.  So to get the interview started on a funny good foot, The Film Strip asked Peter how could he steal from a Black woman? He laughs and says, ‘She had some beautiful jewelry.” Then, of course the next question was about picking this particular project?

WHY PICKPOCKING?

Well, I grew up here and New York is such a great character. I really wanted it to play a great role in this film and it was almost like my homage to New York. But at the same time the story in itself is very sweet and simple. I wanted to have the New York backdrop so that it brought the edge. I wanted to have that edgy backdrop for the sweet story.

THIS WAS BEFORE ‘TWILIGHT’?

Yeah, this was like seven or eight years ago. I wrote the film in three weeks and it took me seven or eight years to get it made. It was a longer journey for me, but I remember just being on the subways and having an idea for a pickpocket movie. I thought that would be an interesting world and then I started fantasizing about what this guy’s life was like and why he pick-pocketed and what his world looked like and wouldn’t it be fun if he still lived with his mom and why he pick-pocketed was a key thing for me, too. I was also very influenced by ’70′s movies. I love ’70′s movies and how they’re character driven. I love Paul Newman movies and [Steve] McQueen movies where they play these anti-heroes that are flawed, but you root for them. I wanted to create a character like that, that was flawed but that you rooted for.

WHY DID YOU PICK MICHAEL CORRENTE AS THE DIRECTOR?

Well, Michael is from Rhode Island, but he has a very east coast sensibility. There was a movie that he was doing ‘Brooklyn Rules,’ and I’ll tell you a funny story about that. I auditioned for this movie, ‘Brooklyn Rules,’ when there was another director onboard. I went in and I read and it was about a kid that grew up in Queens in the ’80′s. I was like, ‘I grew up in Queens in the ’80′s. I’m perfect for this.’ I went in and I read and I called my agent and I said, ‘How did I do?’ They said, ‘They don’t think you’re right for it.’ I was like, ‘How could I not be right for that? I lived that world.’ So, I was kind of bummed and then the movie never got made, and then a couple of years later Michael Corrente was attached to it and he actually went through the old audition tapes from the previous director, saw my audition and said, ‘This kid is perfect.’ So, it just goes how to show how subjective acting is because one director was like, ‘He’s completely wrong.’ Then another director off of the same tape was like, ‘This is the only kid that can play this role.’

IN ‘LOOSIES’ WOULD IT BE SAFE TO SAY THAT BEHIND EVERY CHANGED MAN, STANDS A WOMEN?

Oh, for sure, and I think it’s definitely evident in this film. Bobby has a certain perception of who he is which gets shattered. Someone once said that when you have a good woman you look in the mirror and all the truths come out. She becomes a mirror for all the real truths and his perception that he is doing the right thing. He’s trying to protect his mom. He’s trying to make good on his father’s debt. His mom needs him. Yeah, he steals a couple of dollars here and there, but no one is going to go home being broke over it. So, he finds a way to make excuses for all these things that are flaws within him, and when she holds up that mirror to him he starts to realize, ‘Okay, this isn’t good.

BESIDES THE FACT THAT VAMPIRES HAVE A GREAT CALLING CARD, WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM THAT EXPERIENCE?

I’ve done so many different characters and so this was for me another. It was something different than I had ever done. That’s what was appealing about it for me as an actor. I thought, ‘Okay, this is a world that I haven’t explored yet,’ and I liked that character and I hadn’t played him before. So, I was very intrigued by that world. I love Catherine Hardwicke and I thought, ‘I’d love to work with her. She’s a talented filmmaker.’ But I think mostly what I got out of that was this huge fan base that actually came and saw this film. As an actor you go and you do your work and then you don’t know who’s showing up. I mean, it could be five people that see it and it could be ten million people who see it. You kind of give it away and you have no control over if that film is successful or not. This film was very successful, ‘Twilight’ was, and it opened my career up to a whole other fan base who all of a sudden looked at me and said, ‘I like this actor,’ and went back and started looking at my work previous to that.

THE HARRY POTTER CAST TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE SEPRATION ANXIETY WHEN IT WAS ALL OVER. ARE THE CAST MEMBERS OF ‘TWLIGHT’ STARTING TO GO THROUGHT THAT?

I don’t think that we’ve felt it yet because have another film coming out. So, I think in November next year we’ll all be together doing press for it. I mean, it’s still talked about in interviews because it’s still currently going on. So, even though we finished the filming process of it I think I’m quite happy to have now completed that process of it. And now getting to sit back and just enjoy it as a fan.

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The line for a “Can’t Hardly Wait” reunion film starts behind Peter Facinelli

The "Twilight" star and erstwhile Mike Dexter tells IFC that Sony has nixed a follow-up.

Peter Facinelli may be best known these days for leading the Cullen clan in the “Twilight” films, but in 1998 he was Mike Dexter, an arrogant superjock and dumper of Jennifer Love Hewitt. The film was “Can’t Hardly Wait,” and it’s since become a seminal cult classic for those of us who came of age in the mid-to-late ’90s.
The pic takes place during a raucous high school graduation party and follows a series of archetypes: there are the brilliant nerds, the wildly immature jocks (led by Dexter), the white kids appropriating black culture who think they’re cool (Seth Green in a hilarious performance) and the smart arty kids (Ethan Embry and Lauren Ambrose). It’s an immaculately precise depiction of real life, and it also happens to be extremely funny, intensely heartfelt and very intelligent.
Given co-directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan have only made one movie since then (2001′s “Josie and the Pussycats”), I’ve been feverishly hoping that the pair would decide to return for a sequel. Now, after having spoken to Peter, I realize I’m not the only one.
“I would totally do it,” Facinelli tells IFC during an interview for his new film, “Loosies.” “I think Sony put the nix on it.”
With “American Reunion” on the horizon with its entire original cast, the timing seems perfect for a return of the “Can’t Hardly Wait” family. According to Facinelli, he thinks the same thing. “That’s why I thought it would be such a good idea,” he says. “You know how the whole movie takes place at the high school party? We could have the whole movie take place at the reunion. I thought it’d be a fun movie.”

Onscreen blurbs during the end credits describe his character’s fall from grace, eventually gaining substantial weight and taking menial jobs, aka the fate that all bullied kids hope their tormentors face. According to Facinelli, though, if the reunion were to happen, it would feature a reversal of roles.
“I said I would only do it if he could get Amanda back at the end of the movie,” he says, referring to Love Hewitt, who rejected him at the end of the film (after he rejected her). “I think basically everyone’s stereotypes are now switched. Now he’s basically the loser. The nerd was the loser in the first movie, now he’s like the loser and then he kind of climbs back and gets back on his horse. And the nerdy kid is now the Bill Gates whose kind of like the Mike Dexter, bossing everyone around.”
When I bring up Jerry O’Connell’s character, a former high school football star who appears at the graduation party to belch out six-packs and leave Mike Dexter with substantial doubt over his decision to break up over Amanda, Facinelli retorts that present-day Dexter has fallen even farther than that.

 “I think at this point he would have dipped even lower than former glories. I think he’s just literally a loser. He’s filled with self-doubt and he would basically rise to self-confidence again and come back on top.”

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Loosies Review! * Contains Spoilers*

Everyone knows Peter Facinelli as Papa Cullen in the Twilight Series but recently Peter got rid of his Twilight roots and he spread his roots and produced a new movie Loosies.

Besides producing the movie he also managed to star in it. He plays a pickpocket who had sexual relations with a women who later finds out shes pregnant.

After the women comes back claiming to be pregnant he is forced to choose between the child he doesn't know and the life he is forced to life.

Even though this film is a small made movie and had a very small budget the cast and crew did a incredible job. The film was clearly shot with a hand camera.

My favorite scene is when he finally chooses her, he gets kicked out of the bar she works at and gets kicked out into the alley way. Where she eventually joins him. That is when he asks her to marry him and then they wander off into the end of the alley and the credits roll.

A sweet heartfelt film, that ll make you smile.

A must- see movie.

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Big Hollywood Loosies Review

Bobby (Peter Facinelli) is living the high life in the new drama “Loosies.” He works on Wall Street, dates beautiful women and has a great boss (Vincent Gallo).

Well, that’s what it seems like on the outside to those closest to him (which would basically just consist of his mother). Dig a little deeper, and you find out that Bobby’s actual profession is that of a pickpocket, and his boss is a man who his late father owed $500,000 in gambling debt. Now, Bobby is slowly paying it off by working for him as an elusive street thief.

Oh, and the beautiful women? Well, one of them is three months pregnant and runs into Bobby. That becomes the central conflict of this hidden gem, available now via Video on Demand. Well, and the fact that Lt. Sullivan (Michael Madsen) is doing everything in his power to catch Bobby on account of the fact that Bobby got a little too greedy and pick pocketed his badge.

“Loosies” works mostly due to a strong and very likable script (which Facinelli wrote). The film gives us real characters with real reasons to dislike them, but what drives the film is how the actors and script show show us small details about each character that are positive. We want everything to be OK.

These characters are so different, yet their paths interconnect, bringing us a very unusual and entertaining film. Lt. Sullivan belongs in a Dirty Harry movie, while Bobby actually probably belongs in “Wall Street” (someone say “Wall Street 3?” On second thought, don’t), and Gallo’s eccentric boss just belongs in an eccentric Gallo movie, I suppose.

Each actor brings something unique to the script. They make the film interesting and drive it along. The script helps because it moves at a fast pace but never uses false gimmicks and Hollywood clichés to drive the plot forward. It simply tells us a story, and that should be fine with anyone who enjoyed old Hollywood before the new one rode in with a vengeance.

The film’s second half is its strongest and also one that conservatives will particularly enjoy. After finding out that Lucy (Jaimie Alexander) is pregnant, Bobby decides to just get rid of it. So, being the upstanding gent that he is, he offers to pay for an abortion and personally take her (which leads to some great scenes when Bobby can’t enter his home to get the money on account of scary Madsen being staked outside).

After finally convincing her, Bobby takes her to the clinic. He takes a strong look around. He sees another young couple and it hits him. It’s a baby, his baby. It’s not some stray dog. Thus, the film grows a heart and Bobby grows some old-school machismo.

In a world of “Transformers” and “Pirates of the Caribbean,” it’s nice to see an artist like Facinelli, best known for his work in the “Twilight” series, want to tell a real story with real characters and real hardships. The film isn’t great, but it has moments of greatness because of the fantastic performances by everyone all around. Facinelli is great in the lead role. He’s never showy and performs Bobby’s growth as a character perfectly.

Alexander has old-school charisma and steals every scene she’s in. Madsen fits perfectly into his role and Gallo, as usual, adds layers upon layers onto his character. By the end of it all, it may be hard to figure out whether Jax was truly evil or not. The direction by Michael Corrente is also impressive. The film may clearly be low budget, but the lighting and the way he focuses his camera gives great detail to the picture and adds a moodiness that wouldn’t have been there without it.

“Loosies” is not a masterpiece, but it is a solid piece of cinema. Forget the gimmicks, forget the clichés. Just sit back and enjoy a great story that will tug you along from start to finish all while entertaining you and leaving you with some food for thought, which is more than most movies today can say.

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Peter Tweets after Loosies showing

Peter Facinelli's new movie Loosies was recently shown at a exclusive showing in Toronto. This was Peter's first time producing and acting in a film. After the showing IFC picked up the film. the drama hits theatres in the U.S in December.

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Peter Facinelli Talks about “Loosies”

In “Loosies” he plays Bobby, a New York pickpocket in his mid-30s who still lives with his mother, dresses in business suits and tells his mom he works on Wall Street when he leaves in the morning. A classy-looking thief, he’s amassing money to pay back his long-absent father’s gambling debts. His footloose life is upended when the young woman with whom he had a one-night stand returns to announce that she’s pregnant with his child.

Facinelli chuckles when asked if the plot came from somewhere in his own background. Actually, he says, “Loosies” is his “updated homage” to the caper films of the 1970s that he fell in love with on TV when he was growing up — Steve McQueen’s films and especially “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” which he calls “the whole reason I got into acting. Those films were loose, fast-paced. I wanted to make a movie that reminded me of that kind of genre.”

Facinelli says not much happened with “Loosies” — “I put it away in a drawer” — until a series of fortuitous events found him crossing paths with Corrente. Several years ago Facinelli had auditioned for a role in a film about a group of young guys who get involved with gangsters, but the director at the time thought the Queens-born actor wasn’t right for the script’s Queens-born character. Later, when Corrente took over the film, now called “Brooklyn Rules,” he looked at the old audition tapes, came across Facinelli’s and offered him a role. But the actor was now committed to a TV series and Scott Caan took the role in “Brooklyn Rules.”

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