On Tik Tok, videos are already trending where users make controversial statements, but without showing their faces and then pretend that they accidentally turn towards the front camera, thus revealing their identities. Although they are mostly of cats showing “their hatred” towards dogs, Taylor Lautner decided to join the trend with a controversial stance on the film Dusk. The actor claimed that Jacob, a character he played in the franchise, should have ended up married to Bella (Kristen Stewart) instead of Edward Cullen.
“Honestly, screw Edward. “Bella should have broken up with Jacob,” Lautner wrote about the clip, then showing a close-up of his face, while he pretends to accidentally turn the camera and throw the phone so that they don’t discover that it was him who gave his opinion.
With this video, Taylor Lautner once again uncovered this debate, which since the first Twilight movie came out in 2008, fans have been divided over who is actually the best match for Bella Swan. Some are Team Edward and others Team Jacob and although in both the movies and the books the protagonist married the Cullen family vampire, there are those who still would like the werewolf to be Bella’s husband.
Tik Tok users took it with a lot of humor and the clip already has 19.7 million likes, with funny comments like: “The fact that we all collectively thought ‘me too’ without knowing that Taylor posted this is very funny” and “IT’S OVER, THIS TREND WON, GO HOME.”
Likewise, there were other Internet users who thought that the video was surely the idea of his wife, Tay, who previously declared herself a fan of Team Edward, instead of Team Jacob: “Why do I feel like this was Tay’s idea?” wrote one follower of the actor, to which Lautner replied: “Because you are very intelligent (and you are right).”
It should be noted that this Tik Tok made some people remember the interview he gave on the podcast Call Her Daddy, in which He confessed that Jacob and Edward’s rivalry reached him and Robert Pattinson in real life: “I think it was difficult. I don’t know about him, but for me at least it definitely was, especially at the age I was, sometimes you get your feelings hurt when you shouldn’t. But sometimes it’s hard not to,” he said.
However, the 32-year-old actor assured that despite the “difficult” and “uncomfortable” nature of this “feud”, he always acknowledged that Kristen Stewart’s ex-boyfriend was always a great person.
“We never really connected on a deep level, simply because we are different people. But he was always fantastic and the sweetest person ever. We are a team. We were both trying to make the best movies, but the competitiveness was a little strange. There was no competitiveness between Rob and I, but having that constant reminder definitely had an impact,” he explained.
In another interview, with the podcast The Toast, The famous man said that when he starred in the Twilight franchise in 2008 “he was very young,” so traveling the world at the premieres and seeing how he had thousands of fans shouting that they loved him and on the other hand loved Rob Pattison caused him a shock. “very strange” feeling.
“I was 16 years old when it was released. Twilight, 17 when New Moon came out y Eclipse . I finished the franchise when I was 19. I traveled the world and was in different cities and had thousands of fans screaming to take your side or the other’s side,” he concluded.
