Taylor Lautner covers the October issue of Seventeen magazine. The photos are totally boring, but that might be because I’m not into Taylor, AT ALL. When I switched to DirectTV, I got the free Showtime package, which included multiple and endless airings of New Moon and Eclipse. God, those movies are so, so bad. And I hate to say it, but Taylor’s epically terrible acting makes me wish there was more Kristen Stewart lip-biting and Sparkles’ horrible emoting and constipation-face. Lautner is the weak link of those films, and as I continue to watch, I grow to dislike him more and more. Plus, Lainey’s whole “Tom Cruise Junior” thing is right on – there’s something suspiciously “too wholesome” about this kid – he’s very manufactured, very much the perfect, asexual, toothy “product” to be sold to young girls. Plus, I just don’t like his face.

Here are some excerpts from Taylor’s Seventeen interview – he’s promoting Abduction, that film that’s supposed to make him the next Tom Cruise, a little toothy action star:

On if there was an instant connection with costar Lily Collins: “Absolutely. You can feel some sort of chemistry or a connection when you are reading a script with someone for the first time. And that was totally the case with Lily.”

On where he sees himself in five years: “I believe in the saying, ‘If you aim at nothing, you’re going to hit nothing.’ So if you don’t set goals, then you have nowhere to go. I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It’s a difficult one, but I’m aiming for it!”

[From Seventeen]

Well, at least he’s not proclaiming that he WILL win an Oscar, like so many famewhores have done before. He’s just saying that it’s his goal. Good luck to him – because it’s not happening for him in five years. Or ten years. Or ever.

Going back to the Tom Cruise thing – Taylor was talking about him recently:

Taylor Lautner admits a ‘Stretch Armstrong’ film won’t be out for some time. The ‘Twilight Saga’ actor has long been rumoured to play the toy-character in a forthcoming big-screen story, but he admits other projects are on his mind before that movie comes to fruition.

He said: “‘Stretch Armstrong’ is still in the scriptwriting process at the moment, so we are waiting to hear. There are a couple of other things I’m really excited about that haven’t been announced yet.”

The 19-year-old star will next be seen in thriller ‘Abduction’, where he displays his particularly muscular frames many times, and he admits it is hard to get to a large size and keep it up.

He told Movie Hole: “It was very hard to put on, and then it was just as hard to maintain it.”

Taylor has recently revealed he would love a career similar to ‘Mission Impossible’ star Tom Cruise.

He said: “The most important thing I did was sit down beforehand and watch a lot of movie and study actors that I look up to. We studied Tom Cruise in ‘Minority Report’, Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington. I would love [to follow in their footsteps]. That would be an honour, to be compared to people like that. I look up to Tom Cruise and Matt Damon. I would kill to have the careers they’ve had.”

[From Contact Music]

You can’t fault the kid for being ambitious. Tom Cruise was ambitious once too. Now he’s just hoping to hold on to some kind of foothold in Hollywood. I’m just saying… maybe Taylor might want to invest in a few years away from Hollywood, maybe go to college, experiment, live outside the management bubble for a few years. He might finally figure out why his nipples get hard whenever Sparkles touches him.

Photos courtesy of Seventeen.