Twilight idol Taylor Lautner may be new to the action hero game — well, at least as a young adult, now that his Shark Boy days are long gone — but he had a seasoned vet by his side on the set of John Singleton’s Abduction: Ellen Ripley herself, Sigourney Weaver. As a therapist to Lautner’s thrill-seeking teenager, who stumbles into the spy game after discovering the truth about his own childhood, she shows her young co-star how it’s done, effortlessly and with grace. But it wasn’t Lautner who studied Weaver’s body of work for pointers; instead, Weaver admitted, it was she who studied Lautner’s work — his work in the Twilight movies.
“I play a vampire in Amy Heckerling’s Vamps, so I tried to watch the whole oeuvre — the vampire world,” Weaver told Movieline. “And I enjoyed them very much.” Her verdict on Lautner, the actor? “He didn’t need any pointers from anybody.” Read on for more with Sigourney Weaver as she talks choice character roles, working with Taylor Lautner, the latest on Ghostbusters 3, and more.
The Abduction premiere was a little nuts, wasn’t it?
Yeah! You know, it’s like an old-time premiere.
The masses of Twilight fans there to see Taylor Lautner probably made it feel even more surreal than usual.
It was great! It’s part of the Hollywood tradition, screaming fans. [Pauses] And Justin Bieber was there, too. There was a lot of screeching and screaming. I was a Beatles fan, I understand!
Do you get the whole Twilight phenomenon and the recent obsession with vampires?
I play a vampire in Amy Heckerling’s Vamps so I tried to watch the whole oeuvre, the…
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