Lautner may be hot now but most insiders see Pattinson as the stronger actor. And Lautner has irked at least one high-profile producer by dropping in and out of many projects in recent weeks. "I've never heard of anything like this in my whole life," says Joe Roth, who headed the Fox studio in the 1980s and Disney during the ‘90s. Most recently, he was a producer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Roth says Lautner is attaching himself to too many projects—including one of Roth's—that don't have completed scripts yet. "He's insane to commit to anything until there's a piece of material that he wants to do," Roth says.
By all accounts, the 18-year-old Lautner is an exceptionally affable and disciplined performer. Roth says he doesn't think the behind-the-scenes maneuvering has hurt him—yet. He prefers to blame Lautner's representatives. "I excuse him because he's a kid," Roth says. "I think he's getting bad advice."
Good article by Kim Masters that's worth clicking through to read even if (perhaps especially if) you've had enough of the Taylor Lautner development dance over the past month or so. Lots more juicy quotes where the above came from.
My only quibble is restricting the piece to the comparison of Robert Pattinson's and Lautner's choices. It'd have been interesting to throw Zac Efron's into the mix as well.
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