Tom Cruise Is Terrified Of Taylor Lautner! He Should Be — Here’s Why!
Watch out, Tom! You’re being replaced by this generation’s resident hottie – and he has better abs than you, too!
They’ve got abs and arm muscles to die for, looks up the wazoo and both man a mean motorcycle, but now 18-year-old Taylor Lautner is kicking Tom Cruise’s butt at the box office AND shooting his first action hero film!
So, should Mr. Mission Impossible be worried that the world’s most famous werewolf will become this generation’s biggest action star? Taylor’s lean, he’s mean and he’s just started shooting Abduction, where he plays the son of an international spy, and he’s lined up for Cancun, where he saves his BFFs from a Mexican drug cartel. He’ll also be playing blond, swim trunk-wearing action hero Stretch Armstrong (Taylor in a Speedo? Count us in!)
The evidence: we’re all about the benjamins, baby. Taylor’s newest film, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, has grossed $466,931,714 worldwide – and it was released a week AFTER Tom’s latest movie, Knight & Day – which has only grossed $103,320,520. Both guys released their previous movies on major holidays as well – and Taylor beat Tom then, too! His ensemble romantic comedy, Valentine’s Day, made $213,009,598, $13 million more than Tom’s German action-drama Valkyrie, which grossed $200,276,784 after being released on Christmas day in 2008.
Sorry, Tom, but Taylor is the new, improved and younger version of YOU!
Check out HollywoodLife.com’s reasons HERE:
- Both guys are ballers! Tom played floor-hockey in middle school and was a linebacker for his varsity football team. He also wrestled, but had to drop out due to a knee injury. Taylor not only plays baseball as part of the Hart Baseball Program, but loves football, gymnastics and has been a kung fu master since the age of 7!
- Both starred in vampire films based on popular novels: Tom in Anne Rice‘s Interview With the Vampire and Taylor, of course, in Stephenie Meyers’ little-known Twilight series (we kid!).
- Both starred in big movies that brought their female audiences out in droves: Taylor’s Twilight Saga films are becoming as iconic as Tom’s flicks like Risky Business and Top Gun
- Both found love on-set: Tom met ex-wife Nicole Kidman in Days of Thunder and acted with former GF Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky, while Taylor appeared with older woman Taylor Swift, who he was dating, in Valentine’s Day
- The guys like powerful machines – motorcycles – between their legs (and look good riding them, too)!
- They’re mini-men: Tom is 5’7, Taylor 5’6.
- They’re both Germans, ja.
- They’ve both got ‘things’ for gigantic women: Taylor Swift is 5’11 and Tom’s wife, Katie Holmes, is 5’9.
- They’re freakin’ FUNNY! Tom even got his own film based on his hilarious Tropic Thunder character, Les Grossman, while Taylor cracked us all up while performing on Saturday Night Live last December.
- They’re both pretty little songbirds! Tom croons to Kelly McGillis in Top Gun, while Taylor warbles a lullaby to his Sharkboy co-star Cayden Boyd.
— Laura Schreffler
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yulia
Posted at 12:15 PM on August 11, 2010
TAYLOR IS 5’10.5 NOT 5’6.
stormy
Posted at 5:14 AM on August 11, 2010
Taylor is actually 5ft 10 1/2,I think you’ll find. I read that Taylor admires Tom Cruise and called him his number 1 favorite but I think Taylor should follow his own path. He has his own special style and even though action movies are probably something he would love to do,he has said that he values the story the most. I think he should do movies that are a mix of drama and action and romance.I’d like to see him in positive roles,where the character has to overcome difficulties to achieve a goal.I do not want to see him as a drug addicted rent boy,a criminal or a loser.I don’t want to see him in some macho testosterone driven one dimensional role either.He needs roles with depth and emotion that will appeal to women.We are his main fan base after all.He probably makes men feel fat and ugly and bad about themselves and that probably includes Tom Cruise!
beautifuldisaster
Posted at 1:21 PM on July 17, 2010
taylor is definitely not 5’6. imdb says 5’10 1/2. and swift is 5’11 and he’s clearly not 6 in. shorter than her.
mimi tholsted
Posted at 11:51 AM on July 17, 2010
Taylor is short too, wauh! I did not know….
Lilac
Posted at 2:28 AM on July 17, 2010
I love Taylor he is amazing and so talented, I can’t wait for his new movie.
Village
Posted at 12:34 AM on July 17, 2010
Tom Cruise is 5’7″????? In 4 inch lifts.
tara
Posted at 12:14 AM on July 17, 2010
i totally agree with kendra and gaga
kendra
Posted at 10:01 PM on July 16, 2010
I love Taylor he is so cute.
gaga
Posted at 9:18 PM on July 16, 2010
haha love it and im sure there is enough work for the two of them tom cruise should be flattered taylor looks upto him
