Consider it or not, Taylor Lautner and his spouse, Tay Lautner (née Dome), had by no means watched the complete Twilight movie collection — till now.
“After we completed the Harry Potter franchise, we have been looking for one other franchise to look at. So, we landed on the Twilight collection,” Tay, 27, revealed on the Wednesday, January 29, episode of their podcast “The Squeeze.” Taylor, 32, hilariously added: “Heard of it.”
Neither had seen the Twilight movies in a “very long time” — one thing Taylor stated enhanced his viewing expertise.
“It was good. Pleasantly, [it] was actually satisfying,” he stated. “I really feel like numerous the issues I watch that I’ve achieved is simply powerful since you simply have a tendency to simply critique your self and simply be onerous on your self and be like, ‘I want I might have achieved that higher, or wouldn’t have achieved that.’ I do know that once I’ve watched them earlier than I’ve achieved that, and it’s been powerful for me to look at them and luxuriate in them. This time, I might say, was only a completely completely different expertise.”
He continued: “I used to be capable of sit down with you and actually simply sit again, chill out and like, it didn’t really feel like I used to be watching myself. I simply was capable of take away myself from the films and simply, like, as a fan, watch them. And in addition say, ‘Wow, these are literally fairly satisfying.”
Taylor famously starred as Jacob Black — a werewolf and rival love curiosity to Robert Pattinson’s vampire Edward Cullen — in all 5 Twilight movies, together with 2008’s Twilight, 2009’s New Moon, 2010’s Eclipse, 2011’s Breaking Daybreak: Half 1 and 2012’s Breaking Daybreak: Half 2.
Tay, for her half, was additionally frightened that revisiting the book-to-movie diversifications could be “cringe,” however was as a substitute pleasantly stunned.
“They’re so magical for me, so it’s in all probability certainly one of my favourite film franchises and books. So, I used to be somewhat nervous to look at it,” she shared. “However I’m completely satisfied to report, I cherished it simply as a lot. I truly type of forgot some issues, too, which is stunning.”
Taylor proceeded to ask his spouse whether or not her stance on being Crew Edward or Crew Jacob had modified after their rewatch. (Tay beforehand admitted that she had a childhood crush on Pattinson, 38, in a June 2022 Instagram video.)
“I don’t know,” she replied. “To me, you and Jacob are two completely different individuals as a result of I watched the films earlier than I knew you. And understanding you as a full-blown grownup, it’s not the identical human to me.”
Tay, who wed the actor in 2022, even stated she acquired “emotional” watching Taylor in a scene from Eclipse, through which Jacob embraces Kristen Stewart’s Bella Swan to maintain her heat. “Attending to see you be 17, it was the primary time it was you for me,” she gushed. “Nevertheless it was actually tender as a result of it was you at 17, 17-18, and right here you’re, like, 32 now. It simply type of made me emotional seeing you, ‘trigger it’s loopy to assume you’ve actually lived a complete life earlier than I knew you.”
As for which of the Twilight movies Taylor now considers his favourite? “The final two are simply positively my favourite,” he revealed. “After all, I like New Moon and have a gentle spot for it as a result of that’s like ‘Jacob’s film’ or no matter. And I like the motion in Eclipse and the tone of Eclipse. However simply when it comes to the perfect, most satisfying motion pictures, I believe the Breaking Dawns.”
Having checked Harry Potter and Twilight off their film franchise watchlist, Taylor steered they binge The Lord of the Rings collection subsequent. Tay, in the meantime, steered they as a substitute watch the Star Wars franchise.
The couple have been launched by Taylor’s sister, Makena Moore, and started courting in 2018. Taylor popped the query in 2021 and the 2 tied the knot the next yr.