Kristen Stewart "So Glad" Taylor Lautner's Back for Twilight Sequel

Twilight fans are pleased that Taylor Lautner has been rehired for the film's sequel -- and so is lead actress Kristen Stewart.

"I'm so glad they didn't have to find somebody else; we already had him!" she tells MTV News. "I didn't understand all the deliberation on [whether to bring him back]. But now that it's set, we can all rest."


Lautner, 16, was worried he wouldn't be rehired because his character, Jacob Black, is totally different in New Moon: He's a foot taller and is supposed to look 25.

So he's packed on about 26 pounds of muscle.

Check out Taylor Lautner's stunning transformation.

"He's really buff!" Stewart says. "He definitely is. It took him a lot of time."

She says she is "really excited" to shoot New Moon later this year.

"It's such a machine now. All of a sudden, this movie has become [something bigger]," she says. "With all the expectations — usually, you make a movie and think, 'If it touches people, great; if it doesn't, then you move on to the next one, and no one's personally affected by it.' [But] everyone's really sensitive with any changes right now.

"Everyone needs to be on the same page to make the same movie [as the original Twilight was]," she goes on. "Or else it will be a very disoriented project."

She has faith in new director Chris Weitz.

"Chris is — on top of him being a really sweet guy — he is entirely devoted," Stewart says. "And he's very clearly not doing the movie just because it's the next big thing. He really likes it a lot."