Taylor Lautner Recollects ‘Troublesome’ Rivalry with Robert Pattinson, ‘Rekindling’ Friendship with Taylor Swift

Whereas displaying on Wednesday’s episode of the Identify Her Daddy podcast, the 31-year-old actor — who carried out Jacob Black inside the fantasy romance film franchise reverse Pattinson’s Edward Cullen — recalled how the Twilight rivalry between himself and Pattinson was “robust,” admitting that it may even usually hurt his feelings.

“I really feel it was highly effective. I have no idea for him, nevertheless for me, at least it undoubtedly, significantly on the age I was at, you get your feelings hurt usually as soon as you shouldn’t,” Laurtner instructed CHD host Alex Cooper. “It’s exhausting to not usually. It was considerably robust.”

“I really feel it was awkward at events for the two of us to be standing collectively on a balcony and having 10,000 ladies booing Rob nevertheless then cheering for me nevertheless then this half booing me and cheering [for Rob], nevertheless then us having to have some type of friendship,” he continued. “It was robust.”

Lautner went on to note that he and Pattinson have been “merely very, very completely completely different people.”

“We certainly not truly associated on a deep diploma just because we’re completely completely different individuals,” he talked about, together with, “Nonetheless he was on a regular basis unbelievable and the sweetest explicit particular person ever.”

Lautner and Pattinson starred alongside Kristen Stewart inside the 2008 film, and went on to reprise their roles in 4 sequels: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), Eclipse (2010), Breaking Dawn — Half 1 (2011), and Breaking Dawn — Half 2 (2012).

Attempting once more, Lautner talked about he’s grateful for the experience.

“I solely actually really feel good feelings in path of the franchise and each factor it’s given me,” he shared. “There’s execs and cons to what it gave me, nevertheless the execs far outweigh the cons. It took a journey after the franchise was over with figuring out who I truly am and what’s actually important to me in life. I’m very, very grateful for the franchise.”

Within the meantime, elsewhere in the middle of the podcast interview, by which he appeared alongside his partner, Tay, Lautner mirrored on his earlier relationship with Taylor Swift, and detailed the “rekindling” of their friendship over a decade after their 2009 break up.

“I really feel when you respect anybody for who they’re, like of their soul, it helps you to switch on, forgive and proceed that love one other approach,” he shared.

“We stayed nice, we’d see each other once in a while. Nonetheless we then did fall out of contact and didn’t converse for a while,” he continued, sharing that they “have been so youthful” after they dated, nevertheless he “on a regular basis had the deepest respect for who she is as a person sooner than something.”

Nonetheless, as Swifties know, Lautner and Swift, 34, not too way back reconnected, with the earlier even displaying inside the latter’s music video for “I Can See You” — a vault observe from the Talk Now (Taylor’s Mannequin). On the night of the video’s premiere once more in July, Swift even had the alternative Taylor be part of her on stage at her Eras Tour reside efficiency.

“Honestly, I’d say certainly one of many greater points to happen in my life over the past yr is the rekindling of our friendship,” Lautner recalled.

Although he later admitted that it was “fully” Swift’s selection to complete points in 2009, he nonetheless solely had good points to say in regards to the pop star, praising Swift as a “improbable human” and a “pretty good” explicit particular person “to have in your life.”