Facinelli isn’t worried he might be typecast by playing two doctors simultaneously.

“I don’t really play the occupation. I play the person. They both wear a lab coat. But the people in those lab coats are so dynamically different,” he says. “They’re 180 degrees, a world apart. So it’s fun to be able to play characters of the same occupation. There are people when they meet me know me from ‘Nurse Jackie’ and don’t even realize I’m in the ‘Twilight’ series. When I look back on my years, the fun part of the things I’ve done is that everything’s a little bit different.”

He’s always been true to his conviction. He’s played characters as diverse as a blind mountain climber, a slick cop, a loopy art student — even Jesus.

“And when you stack up the characters I’ve done, the character from ‘Damages,’ Dr. Cooper from ‘Nurse Jackie’

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