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Twilight's Nikki Reed: 'So Proud' of Taylor Lautner

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Twilight's Nikki Reed: 'So Proud' of Taylor Lautner

Originally posted 03/13/2009 07:15AM

As the Twilight cast heads to Vancouver this week to begin rehearsals for the film's sequel, New Moon, Nikki Reed says she's relieved to have pal Taylor Lautner in the cast.

"I'm so proud of him," she tells PEOPLE. "He didn't have the part."

Lautner, who portrayed Jacob in Twilight, had to audition to keep his role in New Moon because the character undergoes a drastic physical transformation and becomes a hulking werewolf.

"Everybody knew he was going to have to fight for this," says Reed, 20, who plays vampire Rosalie Hale. "He was at the gym twice or three times a day. He was on a nutrition and workout regime for the last year not knowing if he would be in this film."

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NEWS BRIEFS: Nikki Reed to Hit Boards

Originally posted 03/03/2004 01:00PM

CAST: Fresh from her win for best debut performance at the Independent Spirit Awards Saturday, Nikki Reed, 16, is set to re-team with her "thirteen" director Catherine Hardwicke on the 1970s skateboarding drama "Lords of Dogtown," a fictionalized version of Stacy Peralta's documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys," says the Hollywood Reporter. Reed will play the kid sister of one of the skateboarders. Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch, John Robinson ("Elephant") and Victor Rasuk ("Raising Victor Vargas") also star.

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