Twilight's Taylor Lautner grew up in the spotlight By Ned Ehrbar Metro World News Share this Article Metro/Handout Taylor Lautner has come a long way since the first Twilight film. Taylor Lautner started the Twilight franchise when he was 15 years old, and in the five years since he's become an international celebrity. The end of your teenage years can be awkward enough as is, but being under the media spotlight adds a whole different level of discomfort. "It's amazing how much a 15-year-old to a 20-year-old grows up and matures just regularly. Going through this, it definitely was at an accelerated rate," he says. "[The scrutiny] definitely added to it. It was the part of it that we never predicted." The first lesson Lautner had to learn was to not just hide from the world. "When something like that happens to you, you tend to [withdraw]," says Lautner, who became a tabloid staple when rumours about him dating Taylor Swift circulated in 2009. "The worst thing you can do in that situation is just lock yourself up inside your house and not do anything and just be scared. You just have to think about things more and maybe just plan more in advance, but you don't want to change who you are and everything you do just because of it." Of course, he did have to make some changes because of his fame -- like where he spends his free time. "I haven't been to a mall in a