Taylor Lautner underwent a weight gain of 30 pounds to keep his role as Jacob Black in the Twilight movies. It was an intense physical transformation he had after doubling his calorie intake and hitting the gym five times a week. After the franchise ended, Taylor Lautner had another weight gain though that one seemed to be because he neglected to maintain himself and stopped working out as he was all fat in the face and body.
Taylor Lautner is an American actor who is widely recognized as the werewolf Jacob Black from The Twilight Saga film series. He became a pop culture icon with that role. He ruled the 2000s with his intense looks. He became a teen idol and was considered a sex symbol after he extensively changed his physique and got super muscular and bulked up to keep his role in further installments. In 2010, Glamour ranked him second on ‘The 50 Sexiest Men of 2010’ List and he also came on fourth on People‘s ‘Most Amazing Bodies’ list.
He started his career with bit parts in comedy series such as The Bernie Mac Show and My Wife and Kids and later went on to films such as Cheaper by the Dozen 2, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, and Abduction. Taylor Lautner also starred in the BBC sitcom Cuckoo as the son of the titular character from 2014 to 2018. In 2016, he played the lead role of Dr. Cassidy Cascade in the second season of the FOX black comedy series Scream Queens.
When he did Scream Queens, he made many headlines about his weight gain. Once considered one of the sexiest after bulking up for the Twilight franchise, after it was over, it looked like he let go and as a result, gained a lot of weight. People found it difficult to think that him post the movie was even the same person as the werewolf from Twilight. Let’s learn more about Taylor Lautner’s weight gain!
Also, check out the weight gain stories of Emma Thompson and Pete Doherty.
Taylor Lautner’s Weight Gain: He Gained 30 Pounds for New Moon and He Gained After The Twilight Franchise Ended as Well!
Taylor Lautner (@taylorlautner) might have been one of the fittest and most muscular people back when he underwent a physical transformation because the role of Jacob Black required him to do so. He was not the same after the movie. He became more fat than muscle after the movie ended. He underwent a weight gain and appeared to have let himself go.
Taylor Lautner’s weight gain after the Twilight movies is one of the most disappointing transformations in Hollywood which upset many fans even though it was never about them. The actor didn’t work for a while and stayed away from the entertainment industry post-Twilight and during that brief time, he failed to maintain himself. He ditched the diet plans and workout schedule that was responsible for him being Jacob Black.
When he finally emerged back after that brief hiatus, Taylor Lautner had changed and in not a flattering way. He had undergone weight gain, which his fans saw after he made his comeback with Fox’s Scream Queens. He was more fat on his face and body then. It was a whole discussion back then. He was intensely scrutinized then. The jokes and memes about his career coming to an end after the Twilight movies were often shared. TMZ even covered this in a report they headlined, ‘Taylor Lautner’s startling weight gain – he looks so DIFFERENT now!’ Everyone was all over him.
Many people took to fat-shaming him and writing comments like ‘he has beer belly’ while other fans tried to be supportive of him because they understood that weight gain isn’t one of the biggest crimes. They didn’t associate Taylor Lautner’s appearance with his weight and said things like ‘he still looks handsome, so no point in trolling him for gaining weight.’ Some thought that he had put on those pounds for a movie even though that was not true. What’s truth was that he let go because he couldn’t easily gain weight even when he tried as proved by the New Moon fiasco.
It’s impossible to imagine anyone other than Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black, I know, but did you know he was nearly kicked out from the Twilight franchise because he was unable to gain weight as required of the role? He ultimately made it and everyone’s thankful for that but that was a whole thing back then. You must have noticed that he came back in New Moon looking pretty big and bulky. Before that movie, he was skinny and for the movie, he underwent a serious physical transformation and had weight gain to look muscular and bulkier to look the part of a werewolf.
Taylor Lautner made that weight gain happen because of his extreme effort and commitment. He didn’t want to lose out on the role to some other person just because he was not big and muscular enough. So, he followed an intense diet plan and exercise routine to pack on the pounds. He hired a personal trainer and worked out under his supervision five times a week. He ate every two hours to make sure he got the calories he needed. He had doubled his calorie intake. He also cut out junk food and he even woke up at the crack of dawn before filming to eat some calories.
Taylor Lautner underwent a weight gain of 30 pounds for New Moon and he looked in his best form during that movie. Nobody can deny that. He looked extremely great in his bulked-up form.
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