TAYLOR LAUTNER HATES HIS WIG ON TWILIGHT

The first time i saw this kid was on the movie "The adventure of Sharkboy and LavaGirl 3D" he was a small kid at that movie where he plays Sharkboy, but now on the new movie of Twilight New Moon this kid has grown into one hunk of a guy.

Taylor Lautner is very happy he gets to hack off his hair in "New Moon."

He donned a long wig for his role as Jacob Black in Twilight and the first part of the sequel, but he opts for a shorter style during much of the new movie.

"I would not want that hair," he told the Boston Globe. "When i looked at myself in the mirror, I couldn't even recognize myself."

The young actor also admitted he wasn't much of a reader - until he discovered Stephene Meyer's Twilight Saga series, on which the films are based.

"As a matter of fact, I was not a book reader at all," Taylor said. 'The only books i ever read were the ones I was forced to in school. But when I started reading book series, I fell in love with the characters and started turning pages one after another. It was crazy. I never thought I could do that. But I love this story. This franchise has everything in it: romance, obviously action, suspense. It has a dark side to it."

And all those elements, he said, will be showcased in the big screen adaptation on New Moon.

"We want to stay as close to the books as possible," the actor says.