“Honestly, I forgot that that was even a line in the movie,” Taylor Lautner said, laughing. “It’s not an important line, and it just blew up and became this thing, and I have no idea why, but people love it!”
He’s right. “Where the hell have you been, loca?!” is a throwaway line meant to kick off a plotline where Bella, in her true love Edward Cullen’s (Robert Pattinson) absence, grows closer to Jacob. When the two start tending to an old motorcycle, it’s clear that Jacob develops feelings for Bella, but she’s still pining for Edward. When she eventually reunites with her vampire boyfriend, a love triangle kicks off, making Lautner’s character one of the franchise’s main players (and earning ire from Twilight fans who proclaimed themselves, at the time, to be “Team Edward” instead of “Team Jacob”).
These days, Lautner is just embracing the joke. “And now, I like, I get it. I mean, I don’t really get it. But I get it. So yeah, that’s a fun one,” he said.
