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Taylor Lautner: My arms hurt after carrying Kristen Stewart all day (new trailers)

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Celebrity Fitness and Health Examiner
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Twilight: Eclipse star Taylor Lautner put his muscles to use during filming, when he had
to lug around 110-pound Kristen Stewart for hours during retakes. (Photos/FilmoFilia)

For Taylor Lautner, putting on 30 pounds of muscle for Twilight: Eclipse wasn't purely cosmetic; it was a necessity for the job!

Lautner, 18, says his arms were burning after one particularly grueling day when he had to carry around Kristen Stewart in his arms for hours shooting retakes.

"There's a scene where I'm carrying [Kristen], and it's also, like, four pages of dialogue," Lautner told MTV. "So I'm carrying her, and we're walking through the woods, and I'm talking to her, and it's a pretty intense talk."

'IT WAS SO HARD'

He added: "We actually had plans, a rig that was basically going to carry her, and I was just going to pretend that I was carrying her. We got there on the day, and the rig didn't look very natural. They were like, 'What are we going to do?' and I'm like, 'I'll just carry her. She's like, what, 110 pounds? It's no big deal!' "

Unfortunately, Taylor wound up shooting and reshooting that scene all day long so that by the end of the day, he was exhausted.  kristen-stewart-taylor-lautner_Twilight_New_Moon_Eclipse

"We filmed that scene all day long," he recalls. "We did the wide shot, did my close-up, did her close-up, the back shot, everything. It was so hard. It was painful."

[Editor's note: Lugging around a 110-pound person for hours is the equivalent of weight-lifting thousands of pounds cumulatively over the course of the day. No wonder Taylor was in pain!]

'THE KISSING SCENE WAS ALSO ROUGH'

Another tough scene was when Kristen had to punch Lautner in the face after his character, Jacob, tries to kiss Bella. While Stewart, 20, didn't actually make contact with Taylor's face, the shoot lasted hours because it too had to be shot from different angles and redone several times.

"I wanted her just to give me a shot, let her punch me once, and we'll be done," Taylor recounts. "Of course, we couldn't do that, so it was some major technical thing where I had to stand there and pretend I'm getting punched and then we had to have her fist punching a bag. It was very technical."

"It was rough," Lautner said of the scene. "Let's just say the second kiss [between Jacob and Bella] was a lot better than the first." [see slideshow below]

Eclipse, which co-stars Robert Pattinson, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, and Kristen Stewart, comes out June 30.

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Slideshow: Taylor Lautner recalls Eclipse scenes with Kristen Stewart

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For real-life friends Taylor and Kristen, kissing on-screen was a little weird. "As soon as we finished, as soon as we pulled away and they called cut, she'd look at me and I'd look at her and there would be a moment of silence," Taylor recalls. "And she would go...'We just kissed!' It's definitely interesting but when we film, we become Jacob and Bella." (Photo/FilmoFilia)

Slideshow: Taylor Lautner recalls Eclipse scenes with Kristen Stewart

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Samantha Chang is the executive editor and co-owner of TheImproper.com, an arts and entertainment website in New York City. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Samantha is a former financial journalist who enjoys running, cycling and music. Contact her at schang@theImproper.com.

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