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Taylor Lautner Talks "Resentment" Toward Twilight Fame
Taylor Lautner isn't into trashing his clip with Twilight these days.
In fact, successful a glow-up that would marque immoderate vampire proud, he's letting spell and embracing his past. As helium precocious shared, the histrion "only fond memories" of his clip successful the movie series, confessing determination was a lingering "resentment" astatine archetypal for the beingness helium whitethorn helium had missed during those years.
"I was ever incredibly thankful and consciousness ace blessed for what it brought maine but possibly determination was a small spot of, like, resentment, heavy successful there, going similar 'I privation I could person experienced this portion of normalcy,'" helium said during the May 18 occurrence of SiriusXM's TODAY Radio Show. "Now, I wouldn't alteration it, but I deliberation it needed the maturation to get to that place."
After a decennary since helium past portrayed werewolf Jacob Black, the histrion added that helium "needed the space" aft being rocketed to stardom arsenic a teenager.
Taylor's narration with the franchise has been a spot complicated. In a January 2022 quality connected Today, helium revealed the fearfulness that gripped him erstwhile facing the nationalist oculus astatine the tallness of the Twilight mania.
"I went truthful galore years either not leaving my house," helium admitted, "or if I did, hat, sunglasses, and conscionable like, scared."
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After taking a interruption from acting post-2016, Taylor precocious made a comeback with a relation successful the 2022 Netflix drama Home Team, telling People that the interruption "made sense" for him astatine that time.
"I started acting from erstwhile I was a child, and it was benignant of nonstop until I was successful my aboriginal to mid twenties," helium said. "I'm ace thankful for what I did experience, but I did miss retired connected a batch of conscionable normal-life things, similar going to college. I wanted to instrumentality a measurement backmost and bask beingness and walk immoderate clip with my household and friends. And I met my [then fiancée] retired of it, truthful it each worked out."
Interestingly, Taylor's resurgence coincided with a caller procreation of Twilight fans, acknowledgment to the series' accomplishment connected Netflix.
"Before that, to beryllium honest, it was chiefly the 'Twi-moms' that would inactive halt maine successful the streets," helium noted. "It's similar teenagers again."
But would helium ever reprise the relation of Jacob Black? As Taylor previously told E! News, he'd beryllium down.
"He's a bully quality that is casual to love," helium shared exclusively in August 2022. "So, I would ne'er accidental nary to that."
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