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INTERVIEW:IF YOU’RE GOING to be stuck with the same face for 350 years then it might as well be the one attached to Peter Facinelli. The American actor, now an unblemished 35, has worked hard over the past decade and a half. He was in the action series Fastlane. He had decent roles in the movie Scorpion Kingand the much-loved Six Feet Under. But, right now, he is indelibly, irrevocably associated with the jaw-droppingly successful Twilightfranchise. A year ago, the first film adaption of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire saga emerged and, to the surprise of perplexed adults unaware of the books’ enormous cult following, chewed the world’s box-offices into bloody pulp.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, playing dishy vampire and potential inductee, immediately became huge stars. The gorgeously toothy,immaculately blow-dried Facinelli, who plays Pattinson’s impossibly ancient adopted father, also found himself being kicked several rungs up Hollywood’s ladder of prestige.