Not until college, did I start to do acting. I transferred into NYU from St. John’s University and started studying theater. I was going to take law because it seemed to impress people in my family when I said, “I want to be a lawyer when I grow up.” One time, I told them that I wanted to be an actor and they all looked at me like I had five heads. The next time they asked me what I wanted to be, I said, “A lawyer,” and I got a lot of oohs and aahs in the family. When you watch movies and you watch Law & Order, it looks so interesting.

Facinelli revealed that he had some experience studying and working in the legal field before he realized that Law & Order is an exaggeration of the actuality of the legal profession.

I did one year at St. John’s University, and I studied pre-law and I worked for a law firm, and I realized that lawyers spend most of their time trying not to go to court. They look for precedents so they don’t have to go to court. They told me that court was the last place you want to be. I was like, “Well, that’s what I want to do. I like the courtroom drama,” and they were like, “Well, then you need to do something else.”

READ MORE