Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson performed opponents within the Twilight saga however the true problem for the actors used to be navigating their dynamic off-screen.
“I think it was tough. I don’t know for [Pattinson] but for me at least, … especially at the age I was at,” Lautner, 31, mentioned at the Tuesday, December 14, episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “You get your feelings hurt sometimes when you shouldn’t but it’s hard not to sometimes.”
In Twilight’s heyday, lovers had been both die-hard supporters of Lautner’s personality Jacob or Pattinson’s Edward Cullen, a werewolf and a vampire, respectively, who had been combating over the affection of Kristen Stewart’s Bella. In the end, Bella finally ends up with Edward however Jacob unearths his luckily ever after with the couple’s daughter, Renesmee.
Whilst neither Lautner nor Pattinson, 36, had a topic with one any other out of doors of the set, the onscreen competition proved to be difficult for the Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl megastar.
“It was awkward at times for the two of us standing together on a balcony and a thousand girls booing Rob but cheering for me,” Lautner shared. “And then this [other] half booing me and cheering for [him] but us having to have some sort of friendship was difficult.”
Whilst he and Pattinson didn't let the general public’s opinion fracture their skilled courting, forming a non-public connection didn’t come simple.
“The thing with me and Rob is we’re very, very different people,” Lautner confessed. “We never really connected on a deep level just because we’re different humans but he was always fantastic and the sweetest person ever.”
As Lautner mirrored on his time within the Twilight franchise, he shared that he can’t lend a hand however have “great feelings” about his time at the undertaking. Lautner’s spouse, Taylor Dome, may be keen on the sequence, however in the long run subsidized Pattinson’s personality over her husband’s.
This isn’t the primary time Lautner has unfolded concerning the awkwardness created by means of the Twilight fan frenzy. Previous this yr, Lautner spoke about how the response to the franchise made him and Pattinson really feel aggressive in opposition to one any other.
“I was so young and yeah, I do feel like it was very strange traveling the world and being in different cities and having thousands of screaming fans either taking your side or the other guy’s side,” he recalled on a February episode of “The Toast” podcast. “Like, we’re a team. We’re both just trying to make the best movies. It was a little bizarre, the competitiveness. There wasn’t a competitiveness between me and Rob, but having that constant reminder, it definitely had an impact.”