BuddyTV talks about Taylor Lautner and the pressure he has faced playing such a big role in New Moon and how he’s dealing with the pressure.

Edward doesn’t want to give Bella any trouble, and decides to just disappear. Jacob decides to fill the gap until he leaves her torn between two lovers. Not to mention he becomes a werewolf and, before that, bulkier since he’s grown up. I can only imagine how it weighs down on Taylor, especially when you consider what Robert told the magazine: “It was a stress-free job for three months. All the pressure was on Taylor.”

And pressure it is, indeed. He almost didn’t get the role, remember? It was a mix of fan clamor and the need for continuity (that was eventually broken when Rachelle Lefevre lost Victoria for Eclipse) that powered his return, I think. And then came the hard work: he did work out a lot and, according to Taylor himself, the 11-month training got too much at one point. “My body fat got so low that we actually needed to increase it a little bit,” he said. “My trainer would be like, ‘Go have a huge milkshake just so I can get a thousand calories into your body.’”

Thankfully he’s dealing well with the pressure, and everyone’s noticing it. “I think that Taylor is really going to surprise people in the movie,” Weitz told the magazine. “People have seen his body and all that stuff and it’s a shocker because it’s hard to believe that anyone can be quite so carved. But he actually delivers a really great performance. He wasn’t just exercising all day, he was also reading the book quite a lot.”

Read it here.