Taylor Lautner: New Moon is Manly!

To many, New Moon might be considered the ultimate chick flick.

But, in an interview with BoxOffice.com, Taylor Lautner has a message for his fellow fellas: this isn't the case.

Asked whether guys would enjoy the second installment of the Twilight Saga franchise, Lautner said yes because::

“There’s a lot more action than Twilight. It’s more exciting - it has werewolves and vampires, which creates fights because they don’t get along. Not only does the action step up, but the whole story line does as well. Now there’s a third person involved.”

As for his character in New Moon - seen above, shirtless and trying to woo Bella - Lautner dished on the two sides to Jacob Black:

"I play pre-transformation Jacob, and post. He doesn’t transform into a werewolf until halfway through the film. For pre-transformation, the books describe Jacob as clumsy. He trips over his own feet - he’s a kid. And as soon as he transforms, he all of a sudden because extremely agile. There’s several scenes that show his new agility, so that was the biggest thing I had to bring out.”

Meanwhile, the film has released a series of new character posters. Robert Pattinson as Edward is somehow missing, but click on the pics below for a look at Kellan Lutz as Emmett and more: