Taylor Lautner was a "bit of an outcast" at school, according to reports.
The Twilight Saga hearthrob has revealed that his budding acting career meant he often missed classes and time with his friends, which meant his teen years were more challenging for him than for other students.
Speaking to Top Of The Pops magazine he said: "I had a lot of fun in high school, but was I viewed as maybe a bit of an outcast? Sure. "
"I was busy and would sometimes have to leave school and shoot a movie and then come back, or I'd miss a week because I'd be doing a television show. That definitely made it more challenging."
Despite playing for the high school football team, Lautner explained that he wasn't the stereotypical popular jock saying: "I wasn't the super-popular, hangs-out-with-the-same-crowd, kind of guy. I had friends on the football team, friends on the band team, friends on the drama club, and I liked that."
