Peter Facinelli recently admitted that juggling between “Nurse Jackie” and “The Twilight Saga’s Eclipse” brought tears to his eyes. The 36-year-old actor opened up about the matter at the current Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour while promoting the second season of his hit Showtime medical drama series.

When asked whether it is hard to switch gears from portraying Carlisle Cullen to Dr. Fitch Cooper, he recalled the moment he broke down in tears. “I did a scene where I was crying with Akalitus (Anna Deavere Smith) that came out of me just being emotionally exhausted,” he said. “It wasn’t written that I was crying and, all of a sudden, in the middle of the scene, I broke down and started crying.”

“It felt right for the scene. I did takes that I wasn’t crying in, but they felt like, because I was just dumped by Jackie and there was all this heavy emotions going on, it really worked for the scene,” he further explained. “I think it was just me getting off an airplane, having three hours of sleep and just being that vulnerable. It hit me that hard. But, I enjoyed doing both projects, at the same time.”

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Question: Does Carlisle have a lot to do in Eclipse?

PETER FACINELLI: Yes, he does a lot. A lot more than the first two films, for sure. You know, what I like about the third movie is that you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven’t seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there’s some great battle sequences. It’s my favorite book.

When do you hear about Breaking Dawn?

FACINELLI: I don’t know. Usually the fans know before I do, so I’m sure I’ll see it on the internet before I get the phone call.

Is Twitter part of your job now?

FACINELLI: No, I just enjoy what Twitter is because I can really connect with the fans. It’s a great way to share information with them and it’s also a great way to entertain. I like being able to put a smile on people’s faces and I like being able to also mix that up with sharing information with them that’s important, and also letting them know what I’m doing. I’ve had people come to me and say, “Hey, will you tweet this out?” There’s like pay advertisement stuff. I’m not into that. I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don’t want to sell my followers anything. I want to be able to have that fan base so I can tell them what I’m doing and entertain them.

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Since Nurse Jackie airing in the UK I’m able to get great HQ promo’s and stills.

I have added a HQ promotional image from the 2nd series of Nurse Jackie.

Thanks to Stacey for this.

Dark comedy drama series about Jackie Peyton, a no-nonsense emergency room nurse based in New York who has to balance her frenzied job with a complicated home life. Nurse Jackie Peyton falsifies a boy’s organ donor card so that his death will not be, as she sees it, a senseless waste. She also strives to conceal her addiction to prescription painkillers.

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Starts – Monday, 22:00 on BBC Two .

Peter tweeted about finishing filming for Nurse Jackie series 2.

Wrapped 2nd season of Nurse Jackie yesterday. At airport heading home for the holidays:)

Actor Peter Facinelli is stubborn, especially when it comes to his work. When he was just starting out he refused to play any Italian-American roles, though his parents are from Italy.

“I said, ‘No, I don’t want to do that, because with the last name Facinelli that’s all I’ll do for the rest of my life.’ So there were roles I would just say, ‘No! I don’t want to do that. Let me go play the Irish kid.’”

For a beginning actor, that stand proved a sizable risk. “It’s a lot easier if you do one thing well,” he admits. “They know where to put you. When you’re always having to prove yourself, that you can do something – it’s, ‘Well, I’ve never seen him do it. I don’t know.’ But that’s why I WANT to do it.”

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Recently, Ace Showbiz announced that the second season of Nurse Jackie had officially gotten a rundate from Showtime for this spring.

According to them, Nurse Jackie and United States of Tara would be showing back-to-back on March 22nd, with Nurse Jackie showing at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Nurse Jackie chronicles the life of (big surprise) a nurse named Jackie (portrayed by The Sopranos alum Edie Falco) as she tries to stay afloat amidst a life of adultery, drug addiction, and being the best (and probably most controversial) nurse at All Saint’s Hospital in New York. Facinelli portrays Dr. Fitch Cooper, a doctor with a bit of an arrogance problem who can’t seem to please himself (much less others around him).

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Showtime’s hit series Nurse Jackie, which stars Broadway veteran and Emmy Award winner Edie Falco. will begin its second season on Monday, March 22, according to Variety.

Fa;co plays Jackie Peyton, a nurse who constantly bucks the system and breaks the rules in both her personal and professional lives. The show also stars Eve Best, Peter Facinelli, Anna Deavere Smith, and Dominic Fumusa. First-season guest stars included stage veterans Blythe Danner, Judith Ivey, and Swoosie Kurtz, among others.

Falco’s Broadway credits include Frankie & Johnnie in the Clair de Lune, ‘night, Mother and Side Man. She is best known for her work as Carmela on HBO’s The Sopranos.

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