14 DAY TRIAL // Some may argue that Kellan Lutz, pretty much like Ashley Greene, has had no major success outside “The Twilight Saga” because he doesn’t have the talent for it. As he sees it, he’s on his way to an Oscar nomination and win.
Lutz plays vampire Emmett Cullen on the film franchise, but he’s also had roles in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” remake and “Immortals,” neither of which brought him even remotely close to the same level of fame as “Twilight.”
That matters very little for him right now, he says in a new interview with DuJour magazine: Kellan knows that he’s meant to be an actor and an actor he plans to be for the rest of his life.
“I want to act for the rest of my life. I’ll win an Oscar one day, but I’m in no rush to get there. I don’t care if that takes me 50 years, and I’m old. I just love what I do,” he says.
There was never any harm in dreaming big, was there.
As for the end of the film franchise that pulled him out of the shadows and put him on the map with the A-listers, Kellan admits to feeling a bit saddened about it.
“It really is bittersweet. It’s very much like high school… and I’m ready to graduate,” he adds.
The video below is an interview from 2009 (also promoting “Twilight”), in which Kellan reveals the direction he’d like his career to take, saying he wouldn’t mind if he’d become the “next Jason Bourne” someday or, at the very least, a solid action movie star.
There’s no denying the quality of all “Jason Bourne” movies, including the last one with Jeremy Renner, but they didn’t win Matt Damon any Oscars.
Perhaps Kellan changed his mind in between these two interviews. Here is his most recent.
