Taylor Lautner reignites Twilight’s Team Edward versus Team Jacob debate with short TikTok clip
Actor Taylor Lautner is reviving the Twilight saga love triangle debate of years gone by in a very 2024 way.
In a hilarious video, Lautner pretended to write in the voice of an irate TikTok user, “Honestly screw Edward. Bella should’ve ended up with Jacob.”
Watch the video above.
A scene from 2012’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 movie where Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) get married is playing in the background of the video until Lautner’s camera flips and he pretends to have mistakenly revealed himself as the person behind the video.
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“Oops,” he wrote in the caption.
Lautner’s video was a spin on the viral social media trend where users offer seemingly anonymous advice or notions of self-flattery only to ‘accidentally’ reveal themselves as the creator of the video.
The video was posted to Lautner’s TikTok page, so there was never any mistaking who was behind it.
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His video resonated with Twilight fans and, as of Sunday, has drawn over 80 million views.
The five Twilight movies, based on Stephenie Meyer’s fantasy-romance book series of the same name, were fuelled by the love triangle between werewolf Jacob, vampire Edward and human Bella.
At the time the love triangle spurred a heated debate over who the female protagonist should be with and passionate viewers often sorted themselves in Team Edward or Team Jacob.
Ultimately, Bella chose Edward and became a vampire so that their love could live on for eternity.
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And in a strange turn of events, Jacob “imprinted” their half-Vampire-half-human baby named Renesmee, meaning he became uncontrollably attached to the baby on sight and was devoted to her for life.
The films were massively popular at the time and drew over $3 billion globally at the box office.
Lautner, Pattinson and Stewart starred in all five Twilight movies that were released between 2008 and 2012.
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