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Taylor Lautner is an American actor who gained fame for playing the werewolf Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga film series. He has also appeared in various TV shows and movies, including Cheaper by the Dozen 2, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, and Scream Queens. Lautner was a teen idol and sex symbol in the late 2000s due to his extensive physical transformation for his role in the Twilight films.
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About the Taylor Lautner
Taylor Daniel Lautneris an American actor. He gained fame for playing werewolf Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga film seriesand My Wife and Kidsand Danny Phantom (2005). In 2005, he appeared in the film Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and starred in The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D. He also starred in the 2011 action film Abduction.
From 2014 to 2018, Lautner starred in the BBC sitcom Cuckoo as the son of the titular character. In 2016, he played a leading role, Dr. Cassidy Cascade, in the second season of FOX black comedy series Scream Queens.
The late 2000s saw Lautner become a teen idol and sex symbol, after extensively changing his physique to keep the role of Jacob Black in further Twilight installments, and generating media attention for his looks. In 2010, he was ranked second on Glamour’s “The 50 Sexiest Men of 2010” list, and fourth on People’s “Most Amazing Bodies” list. Also in the same year, Lautner was named the highest-paid teenage actor in Hollywood.
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Taylor Lautner was born on February 11, 1992.
Taylor Lautner is best known for playing the werewolf Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga film series.
Taylor Lautner has appeared in TV shows like The Bernie Mac Show, My Wife and Kids, and Cuckoo, as well as films like Cheaper by the Dozen 2, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, and Scream Queens.
Taylor Lautner extensively changed his physique to keep the role of Jacob Black in the later Twilight installments, which helped him become a teen idol and sex symbol in the late 2000s.
In 2010, Taylor Lautner was ranked second on Glamour’s ,The 50 Sexiest Men of 2010, list, and fourth on People’s ,Most Amazing Bodies, list. He was also named the highest-paid teenage actor in Hollywood that same year.
In 2016, Taylor Lautner played a leading role, Dr. Cassidy Cascade, in the second season of the FOX black comedy series Scream Queens.
Taylor Lautner starred in the BBC sitcom Cuckoo as the son of the titular character from 2014 to 2018.
11 Quotes by Taylor Lautner
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The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, ‘Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald’s, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.’ Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.
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I got the famous Oprah hug!
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I love action films. I’d love to do an action drama. I’m always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There’s an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren’t just vampires. There’s a wolf pack.
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The day I finished ‘Twilight’, I came home and started bulking up. For ‘New Moon’, I’m 30 pounds heavier than I was in Twilight.
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn’t changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell – I’d drop a few pounds.
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If I start thinking, ‘Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?’ I’m not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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There’s some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they’re going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they’re still here.
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You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you’re like, ‘This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!’ And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn’t get to do anything. I tell people: I’ve been just about everywhere, but I’ve seen nothing.
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I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn’t break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.
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