Fans are going wild after Taylor Lautner took a playful swipe at his Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson in a hilarious new social media post on Saturday.
The 32-year-old actor plays werewolf Jacob Black in the beloved film series, who is in one of the most famous fictional love triangles with Robert’s vampire persona Edward Cullen.
Across the five movies, the duo battle it out to win the love of Bella Swan, played by Kristen Stewart, with Edward ultimately coming out on top.
In the new Instagram video shared with Taylor’s 11.1 million followers, the film star took part in the ongoing viral ‘camera flip’ TikTok trend.
The trend sees people give advice or opinions aimed at their own demographic, then ‘accidentally’ reveal themselves as the obvious target of the message.
Pretending to be a fan, he recorded his TV screen which was playing Bella and Edward’s wedding scene and wrote: ‘Honestly screw Edward. Bella should have ended up with Jacob.’
Fans are going wild after Taylor Lautner took a playful swipe at his Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson in a hilarious new social media post on Saturday
Pretending to be a fan, he recorded his TV screen which was playing Bella and Edward’s wedding scene and wrote: ‘Honestly screw Edward. Bella should have ended up with Jacob’
Then, he ‘accidentally’ flipped the camera on himself, acting like he’d been caught out, shouting ‘No, no, no’.
The funny video quickly racked up views and fans have flocked to the comment to declare the actor has ‘won’ the trend, writing: ‘Ok this might be the best one of this trend yet.’
‘Okay. Thats it. You won the trend.’
‘You got caught in 8k buddy.’
‘Now this is good.’
‘This wins this trend.’
In December 2023, Taylor talked candidly about his relationship with Twilight castmate Robert during an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
Taylor was joined by his wife, who also happens to be named Taylor Lautner (formally Dome), as he talked his on and off screen rivalry with Robert.
The 32-year-old actor plays werewolf Jacob Black in the beloved film series, who is in one of the most famous fictional love triangles with Robert’s vampire persona Edward Cullen
Then, he ‘accidentally’ flipped the camera on himself, acting like he’d been caught out, shouting ‘No, no, no’
The funny video quickly racked up views and fans have flocked to the comment to declare the actor has ‘won’ the trend
Across the five movies, the duo battle it out to win the love of Bella Swan, played by Kristen Stewart, with Edward ultimately coming out on top
In December 2023, Taylor talked candidly about his relationship with Twilight castmate Robert during an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast
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He said: ‘I think it was tough. I don’t know for him, but for me at least, yeah, it definitely, especially at the age I was at, you get your feelings hurt sometimes when you shouldn’t.
‘It’s hard not to sometimes. It was a little difficult.’
Taylor went on to say that the two just did not vibe because they are completely different as people.
He explained: ‘We never really connected on a deep level just because we’re different humans. But he was always fantastic and the sweetest person ever.’
As much was made about the love triangle their two characters – Taylor as Jacob Black and Robert as Edward Cullen – had over Kristen Stewart’s Bella Swan, the star admitted that may have had an effect on their real life relationship.
Taylor said: ‘I think it was awkward at times for the two of us to be standing together on a balcony and having 10,000 girls booing Rob but then cheering for me, but then this half booing me and cheering [for Rob], but then us having to have some sort of friendship.
‘It was difficult.’
One interesting, and perhaps awkward, thing to note is that Taylor’s wife had previously admitted she was once ‘Team Edward.’
One interesting, and perhaps awkward, thing to note is that Taylor’s wife had previously admitted she was once ‘Team Edward’
Taylor’s wife Taylor, who goes by Tay, decided to accepted the TikTok challenge to show ‘your childhood crush and then the person you ended up with’ back in June 2022.
Admitting on social media that ‘i think it’s time to come clean…’ she admitted that when it came to first loves, she was all in for Robert.
The video quickly switches from two photos of Robert to snaps of Taylor, including a candlelight photo from the MTV Movie Award winner’s romantic proposal.
Friend Patrick Schwarzenegger responded with a heart and a series of laughing until you cry emojis, while blogger Lauren Kennedy wrote ‘hahahaha you win.’
Her husband may have the last laugh. He took the shocking revelation with good grace writing, ’bout time I won something.’