When rumors surfaced last year that 17-year-old Taylor Lautner would not appear in the Twilight sequel because he was too physically slight to portray a bookworm-turned-werewolf, a great shriek rose from Fangirl Island. The producers opted not to mess with their core constituency and worked with Lautner to get him ready for the sequel, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon."

In the August issue of Interview Magazine, Lautner talks about pumping iron to put on 30 pounds of muscle to play a pumped up Jacob Black, comradarie with his cast mates and the chaotic "Twilight" fanbase.

Read the whole thing at Interview Magazine 

On getting sucked in to the "Twilight" phenomenon:

It's the weirdest thing. Nobody really saw it coming. I mean, we knew we were making a movie of a very popular book, but we didn't know how well it was going to do. When it opened, it exploded, and that was not something any of us saw coming. Filming New Moon is a lot different than the first one because this time we know what we are getting into.

Related: Check out MSN's Superfan site for 'Twilight' 

(Interview Magazine)