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.
via twilightersanonymous
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