ALLISON PARK, Pa. — The rumors started last spring. Girls at Hampton High School gathered around their lockers, debating whether it could be true: Was heartthrob Taylor Lautner, the sexy werewolf from the “Twilight” movies, actually coming to their school to shoot a movie?
Amber Beemer, finishing her junior year, was skeptical. Things like this don’t happen in Hampton, she says. Her little sister Kaylee, a freshman, put it this way: “We’re really not that popular.”
But soon location scouts were poking around classrooms, making notes for the filming of “Abduction,” a thriller in which Lautner’s character discovers his own photo on a list of missing persons.
He was really coming.
Lautner, for the uninitiated, is an 18-year-old actor with the exact blend of boyish sweetness and rippling muscles that can leave teenage girls speechless. His “Twilight” character, Jacob Black, is both deeply sensitive and capable of tearing limbs off bad guys. In the world of fan magazines and celebrity websites, he is a prized commodity.