Ashley Greene and Peter Facinelli Reveal the Hilarious Reason Why They ‘Got in Trouble’ on the Set ofBreaking Dawn

Mar. 15, 2025

Peter Facinelli, Jackson Rathbone, Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz in ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ in 2009.Photo:Kimberley French/Summit Entertainment

Kimberley French/Summit Entertainment

While it certainly wasn’t a comedy, filmingTwilightdidn’t come without some hilarious moments.

Ashley Greene, who played Alice Cullen in theTwilightseries, says that one of her favorite memories from filming came when producers tried to take the cast’s phones.

“It makes me laugh when they tried to take away our phones — like that was gonna happen,” Greene said during a recent panel discussion with her castmates at MegaCon in Orlando.

“I think that was the … the second one? Third one?” Greene, 37, added, implying that it wasn’t until the cast filmed the second installment in the series —New Moon, released in 2009 — that producers attempted to take their phones from them.

Greene added that she and her costarPeter Facinelli(who played the role of Carlisle Cullen) also got in trouble on set for playing with a doll made to look likeKristen Stewart’s character, Bella Swan.

“It was life-sized,” Facinelli, 51, noted, adding: “We were walking backstage and they were shooting on stage and we had to wait till their scene was over. And all of a sudden, I bumped into this table and there’s a life-sized Kirsten Stewart laying on the table. They made a doll for when she breaks her neck … do they call it a doll? A cadaver? You know, like a mannequin, but it looked exactly like her.”

He continued: “So then we were laughing and we were taking selfies and picking her nose licking her ears — we were gonna show it to her later and then security saw us.”

Ultimately, Facinelli said that producers made both him and Greene remove the photos from their phones over fears that if they were hacked, photos spoiling the plot point could be leaked.

“So we got in trouble,” Facinelli added.

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Twilight Stars Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Kellan Lutz and Peter Facinelli reunite at MegaCon 2025.Jen Juneau Haupt/People

Jen Juneau Haupt/People

Elsewhere in the panel, Facinelli shared another funny moment that took place on set between him andRobert Pattinson, who played Edward Cullen.

Describing a scene in which Carlisle bites Pattinson’s Edward, turning him into a vampire, Facinelli said, “I leaned in the first time, on the first take, and said, ‘I’m sorry.’ ‘Cause I felt like Carlisle didn’t really ask for permission — you should always ask for permission.”

“But on the second take, I leaned in and said, ‘Rob, you’re so handsome,’ " Facinelli continued. “And then he smiled a little bit. And that’s the take that’s in the movie.”

source: people.com