Taylor Lautner: From werewolf to action star

By BARRY KOLTNOW

When each of the first three "Twilight" movies came out, there was a lot of talk about "Team Jacob" versus "Team Edward," which was another way of asking fans to decide which of the two male characters in the movie franchise's love triangle was their favorite.
Well, meet the head of Team Jacob.
He is Taylor Lautner, the 19-year-old werewolf who fights the vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) for the affections of the human Bella (Kristin Stewart).
They will be back at it Nov. 18 in "Breaking Dawn – Part I," the first half of the franchise's finale. The fifth and final film will be released a year later.
In the meantime, all three actors are busy building post-"Twilight" solo careers, and Lautner's begins Friday with the John Singleton-directed action movie "Abduction."
He plays a teenager whose world is turned upside down when he discovers his own face on a web site devoted to missing children. As evil forces move in, he takes off with a sexy young neighbor (Lily Collins) on a quest to find out his real identity in a teenage version of "The Bourne Identity."

Lautner, known for his chiseled abs, shows plenty of those abs as well as advanced skills in martial arts in the film. As it turns out, he already possessed those skills from his years as a junior karate champion in his native Michigan.
Sitting in a Los Angeles hotel suite, Lautner explains how he ended up in movies (and what the Power Rangers had to do with it), what he and his co-stars thought of "Twilight" before the first movie opened and how fame at such an early age has impacted his life.

Read the full interview over at ocregister.com

~Robstenfan