I find myself in the precarious position of wishing that Taylor Lautner’s new movie, Abduction, would just come out already. It feels like we’ve been hearing about it for years, right? Let’s just get it over with so that the box-office sort out his fate as a so-called “action star.” Yes, Lautner seems like a really sweet kid, but I am pretty tired of Hollywood telling us that he’s the next big thing without any backup numbers, so let’s get this show on (or off) the road already. Fortunately, the time has almost arrived for Team Jacob members to throw down (or not) for their man — Abduction releases on September 23 against Brad Pitt’s Moneyball and Killer Elite starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen, and Robert DeNiro. How will Lautner’s action thriller pic fare against the competition? I am predicting a $15 million opening weekend at the very most, so we’ll see what happens. In the meantime, Lautner sat down with VMan magazine to promote his flick:

On Downtime: “If I’m not filming, I’m promoting, and if it wasn’t ‘Twilight,’ it was a different movie, so it got really busy. But yeah, no, I, you know, I hang out with my friends, family, and kind of just – I don’t even know. It’s like, when I am not filming, it seems like – I don’t even know what I do.”

On Publicity Tours: “I go to a beautiful city, spend the whole time in a hotel room, then I’m back on a plane to the next place.”

On Staying Sane With The Twilight Cast: “It was really helpful that all of us were going through the same thing at the same time. I think if we didn’t have that sort of relationship it would have been tough. It would have felt pretty lonely. Because when you are filming for these Breaking Dawn movies, we were filming for seven months — and if you’re there alone the whole time even with the cast members, like on a day off, or on weekends, you’d go nuts.”

On Abduction: “I call it an action-drama-thriller-romance, I mean it’s got everything in it,” he said, adding that there’s an “intense, intense steamy scene” between him and co-star Lily Collins.

[From VMan via HuffPo]

Here’s the tricky thing though: Lautner is currently in the midst of a romantic relationship with his Abduction co-star, Lily Collins, who just happens to be playing Snow White (to Julia Roberts’ Evil Queen) in the upcoming Snow White battle of the bitches. And of course, his Twilight co-star, Kristen Stewart, has the lead role in Snow White and The Huntsman. For his part, Lautner told US Magazine that “Kristen’s going to be cool and edgy and dark,” but “Lily’s gonna be great too. And a completely different feel.” Uh-oh. I see a very uncomfortable situation on the horizon for poor Lautner when these two Snow White movies finally hit theaters.

Once again, here’s a few production stills (and a poster) for Abduction … just in case you wanted to refresh your memory of what Lautner looks like when he’s humping a kitchen cabinet:

Photos courtesy of VMan and AllMoviePhoto