'Twilight' star Taylor Lautner calls his 'Breaking Dawn' imprinting a 'complicated and touchy thing'
Author Stephenie Meyer was on-set to help make sense of things
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No aspect of Stephenie Meyer's "Breaking Dawn" was subject to more scrutiny than the little matter of Jacob Black's "imprinting," which simultaneously cleaned up the "Twilight" saga's central love triangle, while simultaneously opening another can of potentially icky worms.
How the "Twilight" film franchise would handle the "imprinting" and how star Taylor Lautner would handle the strange turn of events has been one of the biggest questions for fans leading up to the Friday, November 16 release of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2."
Naturally and predictably, it was my first question for Lautner when I sat down with him a couple weeks ago. While he admits that imprinting is a "complicated and touchy thing," he credits Meyer's presence on set with helping him understand how to portray imprinting without coming across as problematic.
In the conversation, Lautner also discusses working with young Mackenzie Foy and, in my favorite part of the interview, he goes into depth on what each of the franchise's four directors brought to their respective films.
I've already posted my "Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" interviews with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Expect more as we get closer to the premiere...
A long-time member of the TCA Board and a longer-time blogger of "American Idol," Dan Fienberg writes about TV, except for when he writes about movies or sometimes writes about the Red Sox. But never music. He would sound stupid talking about music.
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November 12, 2012 at 9:52AM EST Reply to CommentGte ready for obscurity, Shirtless Werewolf Guy.
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November 12, 2012 at 9:53AM ESTmonique jealous much, Taylor is a twilight kid.......that's forever.
December 8, 2012 at 10:55PM ESTHayley Tew
November 13, 2012 at 10:00PM EST Reply to CommentHey that good think
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December 8, 2012 at 10:54PM EST Reply to CommentTaylor Lautner is handsome and classy.
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January 8, 2013 at 6:22PM EST Reply to CommentYeah, because Twilight is so emotionally groundbreaking that anything in it can be looked at as "complicating" and "touchy".
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February 6, 2013 at 1:37PM EST Reply to CommentTaylor Lautner is so fucking sexy he should be illegal. Especially since last we saw him he was Sharkboy. He'll always be around, he sure makes up for lack of experience with some serious eye-candy. Keep em coming sexy, shirtless wolf boy!