Okay, so there have been a lot of casting discussions here, I know, but I'd like to talk about one in particular: Jacob's. While watching the Angryward clip (zomg, over and over again), I became increasingly annoyed by Lautner. For one, I think RPattz is just so right for the part of Edward Cullen that it makes other, poorer casting choices stand out (Rosalie comes to mind, for me). For the most part, I like the casting; I can't imagine Bella as anyone else, nor Alice, Jasper, Carlisle, etc. But the one who gets me is Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black. I just...can't see it, even after New Moon and these clips from Eclipse.
Don't get me wrong. Lautner's adorable. But that's the problem. He looks more like the puppy dog than the wolf, and no amount of muscle is going to change that (for me, at least). I have to admit that I never understood why they didn't cast two people for Jacob's character, maybe some brothers, because in the books Jacob goes from looking like a kid--in which case Lautner at the start of Twilight was perfect--to looking like an adult, because of the wolf gene. Lautner doesn't look like an adult (he has baby face), and he's certainly shorter than Pattinson, which is always glaringly annoying to me, because Jacob's height was often mentioned in the books. For me, mentally, it sort of balanced out the power. The vampires were deceptively stronger than they looked, but the wolves were obviously strong.
It seems to me that what they've done to try to compensate for this problem is make Lautner more serious than he was in the books, so you'll take his boyish looks more seriously, and to constantly mention how buff he looks. It's not working for me. Jacob was supposed to be big, amusing and slightly cocky (probably partially because his size allowed him to be)--almost the wolf version of Emmett. And now, in the movies, because of the way Lautner looks, I feel like Bella's choosing between a vampire and a human, which isn't quite true to the books (not that it has to be--just sayin'). I mean, she was choosing life or undead-life in the books, between the two of them, but it was never supernatural vs. normal. Lautner looks too much like a normal kid, I think.
So, though it's been asked before, who would you cast as Jacob, if you could change it? Would you have casted brothers, like I suggested, to account for the abnormal growth spurt from the books?
Or, on the flip side, if you really like Lautner as Jacob, can you tell me why?
^ He just doesn't look equally menacing here at all.