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Teen idol Taylor Lautner stars as werewolf Jacob Black in “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” a vampire romance film that sees him compete with bloodsucker Edward Cullen for the heart of a high school girl.
In the movie opening on June 30, the rivalry between Jacob and Edward for the love of Bella Swan, the central character in the “Twilight” franchise, culminates in a scene where all three hunker down in a tent.
Ostensibly, they are there to seek refuge from a roving band of vampires that is hunting Bella, but the mountain-top scene also amplifies the love triangle between Edward (Robert Pattinson), Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Jacob.
As it turns out, the cold skin of a vampire is not as good at preventing hypothermia for Bella as Jacob’s warm werewolf blood, a point that the film brings home with one-liners that have left audiences laughing in early screenings.
Lautner’s character is part of a supernatural Wolf Pack in the movie, the third in the franchise. The 18 year-old actor spoke to Reuters about the tent scene, his many shirtless scenes in the film,and his strangest encounter with a “Twilight” fan.
Q: There a lot of ironic moments in “Eclipse.” Was that something that you welcomed?
A: “Yeah, I loved it. Because when you put Edward and Jacob together, it’s bound to have that sarcasm, that tension. But in the tent scene, I think the tent scene sums up the whole entire movie. It’s extremely tense, these guys hate each other. But at the same time, the situation is just pretty funny.”
Q: Some might say you are objectified in these movies because you are so often shirtless. Does that help you understand what it’s like for women actors in films aimed at guy audiences?
A: “I just feel that all of the love going toward the (“Twilight”) cast members is love going toward the characters. I mean with Megan Fox and Jessica Alba, sorry — they’re gorgeous. They just are, and they play many different characters where they’re gorgeous. I’m just lucky enough to be playing Jacob, the guy that doesn’t wear a shirt, and I think all of that love is going toward Jacob, not me personally.”
Q: I hear you had a crazy encounter with a “Twilight” fan at an event in Australia where you were signing autographs. Can you talk about that?
A: “I get down to one (fan) who has the Wolf Pack tattoo right on her forearm. And I was like, ‘Whoa that is so cool. That’s the real tattoo. Is it real?” And she’s like ‘Yeah.’ And she’s like ‘Can you sign it, right here?’ And I was like ‘Yeah, sure of course.’ And I had a feeling about it, I did. And Kristen actually predicted it. Then the next day I got a call from one of my buddies asking if I signed a girl’s arm, and I’m like ‘Yeah, I signed a lot of girls’ arms.’ And he’s like ‘One of them got it tattooed to her arm.’ And I’m like ‘It was the girl with the tattoo.’”
Q: Your family moved from Michigan to the Los Angeles area to help you pursue your acting career. Did you feel any added pressure because of that?
A: “I was like 10 years-old when I moved out. I was just like, ‘Yeah this is going to be fun, my family is moving to California, this is going to be great.’ I didn’t realize all the sacrifices they took, and everything involved in that move. Now, looking back, I’m like ‘Wow, good thing something worked out,’ because if it had bombed that would not have been good.”
OH MY GOD THESE PHOTOS ::sighs::
The hysterical children. That’s what stands out most. The red carpet is lined with these screaming tykes, hundreds of small wonders packed ten feet deep on raised platforms. They are reaching out their hands for Him, shoving little notebooks and pink pens into His hand. The desperation in their cries has a familiar, specific timbre; they sound like hungry newborn infants.
It is March 27, and I am inching down the red carpet at Nickelodeon’s annual Kids’ Choice Awards—embedded with Taylor Lautner, Twilight’s boy werewolf, now reportedly the highest-paid teenage actor in Hollywood. He’s one of the highest-paid actors period, having just signed a $7.5 million deal to play Stretch Armstrong in a big-screen take on a toy no one has seen in thirty years. Lautner’s regular security guard, a professional badass, notices me flinching at the shrieking. He smiles: “On the New Moon tour, I took Advil. Preventively.”
Lautner—dressed in a wool blazer over a white V-neck T-shirt (both gifts from the designer Neil Barrett), his dark hair shellacked into a skyward-pointing spear—seems unfazed. Is it always like this? I ask. So he tells me about Brazil. How he and his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart were trapped in a hotel suite when hundreds of teenage fans stormed the lobby, outwitted security, and charged the stairs to get to them. “We were in lockdown in this little room for forty-five minutes waiting for the SWAT team to arrive,” Lautner says, his eyes wide. “We said to each other, ‘Let’s say they get into this room. What are they going to do? Tear us to shreds? What do they want?’ ”
Finally we are at the door to UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion, finally inside the building, finally moving toward our seats in the front row, when I notice: For a kids’ show, this is one fucking starry room. Adam Sandler, Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Robert Downey Jr., Rihanna—they’re all within earshot. Avatar’s Zoe Saldana is sitting three seats away. Rosario Dawson and Olympic champion Shaun White will present the first award. It’s a tribute to the primacy of the youth market. They’ve all come to kiss the (candy) ring.
Lautner, 18, sits down and begins to tell me how honored he is to be here, how honored he’s been to be everywhere lately. Like at this year’s Oscars, where he introduced a tribute to horror films alongside Stewart. “I would have passed out if she wasn’t there!” Lautner says. “You’re looking down and you’re talking to George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio—and they’re listening to you!” This is his baseline sentiment: honest, enthusiastic bafflement. It’s probably the only suitable reaction. He talks about the MTV Video Music Awards, where he presented a trophy to his then maybe-girlfriend Taylor Swift, only to watch Kanye snatch the microphone. “I was standing behind her as it was happening, and 100 percent I was sure it was staged!” Lautner says, eyebrows raised. “I thought, ‘This was something that they rehearsed.’ I was enjoying the show! But then Taylor turned around and I saw her face.”
Just then, at the UCLA auditorium, Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of DreamWorks Animation, suddenly interrupts the conversation with a question. Katzenberg—59 years old, V-neck sweater, pleated khakis—leans in close. “Taylor,” he says, “do you have two minutes? Will Smith wants to meet you.”
A minute later, Lautner returns to his seat, winded. He looks around the arena, at the 7,000 fans and the lights and the cameras, and asks out loud, “Is this really happening? Am I really here?”
Those are pretty good questions. He might also ask: What on earth did I do to deserve that $7.5 million contract and the adoration of millions? He’s handsome, yes. But in two Twilight films, Lautner has logged fifty minutes of screen time. Total. In the first movie, he spoke 239 words. Oh, and he was nearly fired from the sequel before filming began. (More on that soon.)
Finally the lights inside the UCLA arena dim, signaling the start of the show, and when Lautner’s photograph appears on the JumboTron, the shrieking resumes. Lautner’s security guard rushes over with one last message, whispering something into his ear before disappearing again into the darkness.
“What did he just say to you?”
Lautner locks eyes with me, touches my leg and laughs. “He said, ‘If anything happens—’ ” Lautner points towards the exit sign—” ‘we’re going left.’ ”
*****
One week after the Kids’ Choice Awards, Taylor Lautner pulls up for lunch in Valencia, California, a suburb forty-five minutes north of Hollywood. This is where he lives, with his parents and younger sister, in a home that’s almost indistinguishable from the others in the neighborhood. Lautner suggests the Olive Garden for lunch. “Do you like this place?” he asks, a little unsure, adding: “My father turned me on to it.” Without glancing at the menu, Lautner orders the Toscana soup, then asks to substitute the Caesar salad for the house. Before the waiter can reply, Lautner interrupts innocently: “I know,” he says, “it’ll be a dollar fifty extra. That’s fine.” Well, yes. Yes, it will be.
If the Olive Garden seems an unlikely place to meet one of the most watched teenagers in America, so be it. The location is as clear an indication as any of how far he’s come, and how fast. His is a story filled with extreme coincidence, as if the heavens opened up and said, You. You with the teeth. Next year at this time, people will be able to draw your abs from memory.
Because he’s only 18, his creation story takes about thirty seconds, but it begins at a karate school in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is 7 years old when (Random Fate-Sealing Circumstance #1) the school’s owner invites his students to a martial-arts tournament in Louisville, Kentucky. There, Lautner meets Mike Chat, a karate coach who’s been (Random Fate-Sealing Circumstance #2) a successful actor. Okay, he was the Blue Power Ranger, but still. Chat encourages Lautner to come out to L.A. for a martial-arts summer camp and later a monthlong stay. He hooks the boy up with an agent, and while Lautner returns home to Michigan without a job, he’s still getting calls about auditions.
Behind the Scenes:
Yes they are tagged, but if you can use your imagination behind the tags, these are some really cute photos of Taylor! Please credit if used!
EDIT: Added 17 UNTAGGED PHOTOS!
Added 2 brand new photos from a photoshoot that USA Today did with Taylor, Kristen, and Robert. Click below to view – it’s a cute photoshoot, hopefully more come out soon!:
EDIT: added a few more thanks to KStewartfans
Yay! Finally some new photoshoot outtakes! Added some new outtakes from SPEC Magazine in 2009. Shot by Anthony Mandler who also did a shoot with Taylor for Men’s Health. Credit to TaylorLautnerSource.Com

Sorry guys. I know there are new outtakes and whatnot and I do have them. However, I can’t post them on the site due to the request of the photographer and magazine.
Thanks to TaylorLautnerSource.Com for for 2 of them, we have untagged for the remainder 3:
Thanks to TaylorSwiftWeb.Net for these – they look so cute together:
I know I have slowly been posting what I have for photos, I have some more but I’m posting them slowly but surely… this one photo about 20 people have asked me for so I figured I’d put it in the gallery:

Added 9 Medium Quality brand new outtakes thanks to LautnerFan.Com. Click below to view:
Well, there’s no Eclipse stills, no new photos yet or anything. A lot of you have been asking me about the photos on the layout. I figured since it’s Valentines Day and there’s love in the air….here’s 1 of them:

Even though IMDB claims that Taylor’s character is named Tyler Harrington in the movie Valentines Day, on the official movie site, which trumps IMDB – we find out that Taylor plays WILLY and Taylor plays FELICIA. Also here’s a promo from the V-Day photoshoot:

Added three older outtakes of Entertainment Weekly last year in HQ:

Added new outtakes credit to TaylorLautnerSource.Com from the GQ Magazine from last year! It’s like photoshoot heaven day! Click below to view:
Added some new outtakes, because people have been stealing our photos without credit – I put a little tag on them and I sharpened them, so I will know if you took them:
**EDIT**: Since people are complaining about the tags – and I know that people are stealing if I don’t put up the tag, I’ll be in favor of the people and put up the untagged version. You can click the thumbs above and see the untagged.
Added a new outtake from EdwardandBella.Net from the Entertainment Weekly shoot that came out in November. Click below to view:

Added new High Quality New Moon promotional photos from the conference. Thanks to our friends over at MeganFoxSource.Net!:
Added 9 new outtakes from the Empire Magazine shoot that the Twilight cast did in 2008!
Added two new outtakes from the shoot that the three leads from The Twilight Saga did for Entertainment Weekly. Hopefully more will come out soon!
