NINE TO FIVE scored an interview with Taylor Lautner, perhaps better known as his character Jacob Black, who fights off vampires by morphing into a werewolf. Most of us know the story. Young girl falls in love with vampire, vampire leaves to protect her, she’s devastated, werewolf befriends girl and they fall in love, vampire comes back and the love-triangle deepens.
Lautner’s Australian promo-schedule was hectic. Even so, he told me he was excited to visit the country, and that the fans were very polite. But it seems everybody wants a piece of the star. One can only imagine the number of would-be clingers-on that now surround him. So how does someone so young (he turned 18 in February), deal with all this success and fame?
“It’s a matter of surrounding yourself with the people that you’ve always spent time with, your closest friends and family and just not changing that side,” he said. “I live two different lives. I go into the Twilight world, and I do that job – and that’s what it is, a job – and then you go home, and you’re back with your family and friends and you live the same life you did before.”
But life can’t be that simple. He’s the highest paid teenage actor in the world; he has papparazi tailing him at every turn; he’s tabloid fodder, and even Oprah is a fan. It surely can’t go back to normal that easily. There can’t be an on/off switch.
“(My life is) different; of course it’s not normal – I still can’t even wrap my head around it. ‘‘You know you’re going to step outside and there’s going to be paparazzi and fans, but it still comes as a surprise,” he said. “The most important thing is that you can’t let it change your life and affect you too much because it will drive you insane.” “There’ are pros and cons to everything, but the pros for me heavily outweigh the cons so I’ll take all the other stuff.”
Read the full interview here.
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