InstagramThere's nothing quite like a good ole reunion to ring in your birthday.
Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart made all Twilight fans' hearts beat a little bit faster on Monday night when they hung out on his big day. Lautner turned 27 and celebrity hairstylist CJ Romero posted a photo on Instagram of himself with the former co-stars in a funny embrace. The former Scream Queens actor held his finger to his lips in a "Shh" pose while Stewart rested her arm on his shoulder. Romero wrapped his arm around the birthday boy in a hug.
"Damn K looks sexy. T is a pretty little liar. And I look like I'm ready for bed," Romero captioned it.
Although Stewart's Bella Swan ended up with sparkly vampire Edward Cullen (unforgettably played by Robert Pattinson) in the books and movies, it's clear that she was Team Jacob last night.
The birthday boy posted more pictures from the night, which he dubbed "the best birthday EVER," on his own Instagram page.
It appears that Lautner's girlfriend, Tay, threw him a small get-together surprise party. Patrick Schwarzenegger was there, too. Schwarzenegger posted a video of Lautner blowing out candles on his Milk Bar birthday cake. "Half way to 54," he captioned it.
The Cafe Society actress and Lautner's reunion comes just a few months after the hit franchise celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the first film's release in theaters. The five Twilight films grossed over $3 billion worldwide over the span of about four years.
The newly minted 27-year-old posted a hilarious throwback and tribute on the Twilightiversary on Nov. 21. Lautner shared a meme on Instagram that provided a side-by-side image of Kendall Jenner and himself. Over the picture of the 23-year-old model, it said "Expectation of hair behind ears" and then "Reality" over the photo of himself from the movie when he had shoulder-length hair.
"It's been 10 years exactly since twilight was released in theaters. I thought I should take this moment to thank every single fan who has supported the franchise over the last decade but also to thank Kendall Jenner for being my hair inspo back in 07," he captioned it.
In June, Stewart and her ex/former co-star Pattinson reunited in Los Angeles at Lily-Rose Depp's birthday party at the Chateau Marmont. The two of them broke up in 2013 after a cheating scandal. Pattinson is now dating Suki Waterhouse and Stewart has formerly been linked to Stella Maxwell and St. Vincent.
In case your day needs a bit of a nostalgia kick, take a look at the gallery below to see what the Twilight stars are up to today.
We'll just start with the 2022 Oscar nomination she received for her portrayal of Princess Diana in Spencer. But back in the '00s, in between making five blockbuster Twilight films Stewart starred in smaller projects such as Adventureland and The Runaways, in which she played rocker Joan Jett.
Before the saga concluded with Breaking Dawn—Part 2 in 2012, Stewart was another force to be reckoned with in Snow White and the Huntsman, playing an armor-clad version of the Brothers Grimm-and-Disney heroine. A photograph of her sharing a tender moment (and nothing beyond that, she has since said) with her married director Rupert Sanders broke the Robsten-shipping hearts of the world (and preceded Sanders' divorce), but years after making up and breaking up again with Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson, she still thinks he's the greatest.
"We were together for years, that was my first [love]," she told Howard Stern in 2019.
Now, she's engaged to longtime girlfriend Dylan Meyer.
Perhaps even more so than Stewart, Pattinson has worked to distance himself from his star-making turn as the brooding vampire Edward Cullen—though he told E! News he would "always appreciate" what the Twilight franchise did for his career. He was the romantic lead in 2010's Remember Me and 2011's Water for Elephants, but after that he primarily stuck to the down-and-dirty depths of the human soul in the likes of Maps to The Stars, The Rover, Good Time and 2019's The Lighthouse, in which it's just Pattinson, Willem Dafoe and some really sordid nightmares.
Then, of course, came The Batman, in which he played billionaire Bruce Wayne (albeit a moody, Kurt Cobain-influenced one) and the Caped Crusader himself.
Following his notoriously public split from Stewart, Pattinson has predominantly kept quiet about his dating life. He was engaged for awhile to FKA twigs before they broke up in 2017, and in January 2020 engagement rumors caught up with him and his current girlfriend, Suki Waterhouse. They made their long-awaited red carpet debut earlier this month at the Dior Fashion Show in Egypt.
"If you let people in, it devalues what love is," Pattinson explained his approach to dating as far out of the public eye as possible to the Sunday Times in
After captivating the hearts of Team Jacob, the buff actor went the action hero route in the John Singleton-directed Abduction and showed off his comedic chops in Grown Ups 2 and the Netflix movie The Ridiculous 6, both with Adam Sandler.
On TV he starred in BBC Three's Cuckoo and the second season of Ryan Murphy's horror-comedy Scream Queens—where he met Billie Lourd, who he dated until 2017. Lautner made it Instagram official with girlfriend Taylor Dome in 2018 and the pair announced their engagement in November. They said "I do" during a stunning California wedding in November of this year.
The Can't Hardly Wait star, who played vampire patriarch Dr. Carlisle Cullen, was already working on Nurse Jackie while filming Twilight, and he stayed with the Showtime series through its last season in 2015. Since then he's made a slew of indie films (including The Vanished, which he also wrote and directed) and been on American Odyssey, Glee, Supergirl, S.W.A.T., FBI and the new Magnum P.I., and in 2019 he starred as cult leader Keith Raniere in the ripped-from-the-headlines Lifetime movie Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter.
Facinelli has three daughters with ex-wife Jennie Garth and was previously engaged to Blindspot star Jaimie Alexander. On Jan. 2, 2020, his rep confirmed he had popped the question to Lily Ann Harrison while they were vacationing in Mexico for the holidays. They welcomed son Jack in the fall of 2022.
The actress who played vampire matriarch Esme Cullen blossomed on TV after the big-screen saga ended, showing up in The Good Wife, True Detective, Mad Men, Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders and Manhunt. Her biggest splash since, however, has been starring on the binge-worthy Netflix horror series The Haunting of Hill House, and she joined the dystopia on the third season of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale.
Outside of film and television, Reaser is also an accomplished stage actress and she keeps a tight lid on her private life.
After his turn as the beefy Emmett Cullen, Lutz loaned his voice to the titular hero in 2013's animated Tarzan, then starred in The Legend of Hercules and was part of the younger generation of action heroes in The Expendables 3, both of which came out in 2014. Also that year, he reprised his role of Chris MacNess when The Comeback returned to HBO.
His most recent movie role was playing "Captain F--ktastic" in the comedy What Men Want, and he stars on the FBI spin-off, FBI: Most Wanted.
In 2017, Lutz tied the knot with model and TV host Brittany Gonzales. Seven months after sharing she had suffered a pregnancy loss, the couple announced they were expecting. "Thank you all for lining with us, praying for us, supporting us," he shared. "We're so excited." In Feb. 2021, they welcomed daughter Ashtyn. Earlier this year, they welcomed son Kasen.
The 2009 Teen Choice Award winner for Choice Movie: Female Fresh Face played the ever-positive Alice Cullen. She's appeared in a number of films since the Twilight Saga, her biggest being 2019's Bombshell, about the sexual harassment scandal that ended the career of Fox News president Roger Ailes. Greene played Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Abby Huntsman.
After roles on Rogue and the web series Step Up: High Water, she starred in 2019's Christmas on My Mind and 2020's The Charm Bracelet, both Hallmark Channel holiday movies.
In 2018, Greene married her longtime boyfriend Paul Khoury in a private, star-studded ceremony in Northern California. They welcomed their first child together earlier this year.
Twilight's Rosalie Hale continued to act in small films and TV, enjoying recurring roles on Fox's Sleepy Hollow and most recently V-Wars with husband Ian Somerhalder.
After her four-year marriage to singer Paul McDonald ended, she married The Vampire Diaries star in 2015 and they welcomed their first child together, a daughter named Bodhi Soleil Reed Somerhalder, in 2017.
Reed is also the founder of sustainable jewelry line Bayou With Love and serves as creative director for vegan sneaker brand Løci.
After being in the band 100 Monkeys from 2008 to 2012, the actor, who played Jasper Hale, continued doing TV and movies after the Twilight Saga ended, but also focused on making more music, dropping a solo album called American Spirit Blues.
In one of those odd twists of fate that luckily turned out OK, Rathbone was aboard a Jetblue flight in 2014 that had to make an emergency landing after an engine explosion. He tweeted all about it, including how he and his wife since 2013, Sheila Hafsadi, and then-2-year-old son, Monroe, had to exit via the emergency slide.
He makes his home in Austin, Texas, with Sheila and their three children: Monroe, daughter Presley and son Felix, who was just born in January 2020.
A video he posted of himself on April 7, 2020, playing his guitar merited a comment from his Twilight sister Nikki Reed, who wrote, "Omg this made me miss you! Thinking of Portland and the many late nights watching you play 25 interments at once and totally in awe of your multi-tasking skills."
Revenge for the villainous tracker vampire James' demise is what drives the rest of the Twilight series action (that and a whole lot of romantic angst), so it could've been difficult for Gigandet to shake the association. But he pressed right on, appearing in a bunch of movies, most notably Easy A and Burlesque, and he was in the 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven.
More recently he starred in the Audience Network crime drama Ice, which ran for two seasons, and he was in the films Without Remorse and Last Shoot Out.
Gigandet is also a father of three, daughters Everleigh and Armie and son Rekker, with Dominique Geisendorff, who he split from earlier this year.
The vengeful Victoria was played by Lefevre for two of the films before she was replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard—which Lefevre maintained came as a shock, but which Summit Entertainment insisted was due to the actress taking a role in an independent film that conflicted with their schedule.
"Never did I fathom I would lose the role over a 10-day overlap," Lefevre stated at the time.
Since then, the Canadian actress has done a bunch of TV work, most prominently in the hit CBS series Under the Dome, based on the Stephen King book, which ran from 2013-2015.
Lefevre married chef Chris Crary in 2018 and they have a son together. "I used to joke I'd have to take up marathon running to stay married to him, because when he flirts with me he does it through food," the apparently well-satiated actress said on Rachael Ray in 2019 when she was promoting the Fox legal drama Proven Innocent, which ran for a season.
Most recently she starred on the New Zealand-set Acorn mystery drama The Sounds.
The star of The Village, Manderlay, Lady in the Water, Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It, Spider-Man 3 and Terminator Salvation took over as Victoria for 2010's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
After that, the daughter of director Ron Howard starred in The Help and 50/50 and signed up to kick off her heels in the Jurassic World franchise. She also had a memorable turn on the Black Mirror episode "Nosedive," co-starred in the Elton John biopic Rocketman and is making the upcoming spy caper Argylle with Henry Cavill.
After playing Bella's a-little-bit-jealous pal Jessica Stanley in 2008's Twilight, Kendrick was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar for 2009's Up in the Air and ended up top-lining the Pitch Perfect franchise. The Broadway vet has seemingly done all the genres: movie musicals (The Last Five Years, Into the Woods), comedy (Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates), Christmas (Noelle), action thriller (The Accountant), murder mystery (A Simple Favor) and animation (Trolls)—and is fairly ubiquitous in commercials.
Kendrick also published a memoir, Scrappy Little Nobody, in 2016.
The actress who had a small role as Bella's kind friend Angela went on to more undead antics as Rosita on The Walking Dead and Becca on American Horror Story: Murder House. More recently she had the stage all to herself playing iconic Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla on Netflix's Selena: The Series.
Serratos is mom to a daughter with her longtime boyfriend, New Politics singer David Boyd.
The former child star joined The Twilight Saga in 2009, when she was 15, as Volturi member Jane and her career only blossomed from there. Highlights on the big screen since include American Pastoral, Ocean's 8 and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, and she starred on TNT's period crime drama The Alienist.
Next up, she and sister Elle Fanning are playing siblings in the film adaptation of the best-selling novel The Nightingale, set in France during World War II.
Only 10 when she made her movie debut in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn–Part I as Edward and Bella's daughter Renesme, Foy went on to do voiceover work and be in The Conjuring, Interstellar, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms and Black Beauty. She is also an avid horseback rider and is involved with The Wild Beauty Foundation.
Happy birthday, Taylor!