(Video) Taylor Lautner on His Most Challenging Scene and Jacob's Massive Transformation

The actor opens up to THR.com editor Joseph Kapsch about the penultimate film in the franchise, which opened to a whopping $283.5 million over the weekend.

Moviegoers watched Taylor Lautner put his impressive martial arts and stunt skills to work in Lionsgate's action thriller Abduction. And Twihards have been wooed by his ripped physique as uberpopular werewolf Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga series. But it was Breaking Dawn -- Part I's pivotal "imprinting scene" that the actor admitted was one of the most challenging scenes he's tackled.

"It was tough, it was probably the most challenging for me because first, you have to get a hold of what imprinting is and what it means," Lautner told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the film's massive $283.5 million worldwide opening over the weekend. "And thankfully, we had [Twilight book series author] Stephenie Meyer on the set all the time, so trust me, we had a lot of conversations with her about that."

"Once I grasped that, then it became, 'What does it look like?' and I mean, I was giving a X on the wall and I had to walk in the room and look at this X, make eye contact with it and imprint, whatever that means, whatever that looks like," he said. "So on the day it was tough and required a lot of imagination but I am really happy with the outcome and I need to thank [director] Bill Condon for that one."

Lautner added that Jacob goes through a massive transformation in Breaking Dawn -- Part 1.

"The whole thing with Jacob in this movie is the journey that he goes on from the beginning to the end," he said. "He starts out the movie as the same Jacob we always known, but throughout the journey, I mean, he is forced to become a man and deal with maturity issues and make choices and he is torn between his own family, the wolf pack and his new family, the Cullen and he has to do the right thing."

Lautner's interview at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills came the heels of THR's exclusive report that he would be starring in an independent movie directed by Gus Van Sant.

Though he and his team played coy on any further details with the press during rounds that week -- saying "it was still in very, very early stages" -- the actor was good sport, even laughing when THR brought up plans for the project.

The actor's first effort as a solo leading man, Abduction, underwhelmed at the box office over the summer. The new project would almost certainly take Lautner’s career in a new direction. He is said to be determined to work only with top directors and writers from now on as he strives to define himself as an actor.

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