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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