After Twilight, some fans assumed that Taylor Lautner had Native American ancestry considering his character’s ethnicity. Taylor Lautner rode the massive pop culture wave that was the Twilight franchise, which began in 2005 with the first of Stephenie Meyer’s novels. It didn’t take long for a movie adaptation to come around, considering Harry Potter was in the middle of its run of fantasy book-to-movie productions. Casting decisions were highly anticipated and Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black felt like the perfect choice for the high school boy-next-door/werewolf.