Alyson Stoner Jokes Taylor Lautner 'Almost Convinced Me I Was Straight' in 'Cheaper by the Dozen 2' — and the Actor Responds!
"Almost convinced me I was straight. 🤭," Stoner said in an Instagram comment, reacting to a romance scene opposite the actor in the 2005 film
Stoner identifies as pansexual and queer and uses they/them pronounsAlyson Stoner joked that they had conflicting thoughts about their sexuality while starring opposite Taylor Lautner in Cheaper by the Dozen 2.
In a July 2 Instagram post, Lautner, 33, shared a video of the 2005 film playing on an outdoor screen. The movie scene featured in the post saw the actor casually putting his arm around Stoner's character while they were on a movie theater date, as their film dads — Steve Martin and Eugene Levy — watched on in horror.
Turning the camera on himself, Lautner mimicked the scene that was shown, placing his arm around his wife, Tay Lautner, as she sat on a lawn chair beside him.
Lautner referenced the scene in the caption of his social media post, writing, "The move still works 20 years later 😉," and Stoner, 31, popped in the comments herself and said, "😮💨 Got me good! Almost convinced me I was straight. 🤭."
In response, Lautner wrote back to Stoner — who identifies as pansexual and queer and uses they/them pronouns — "OMFG YOU WIN," as his wife chimed in to add, "This is so good👏👏."
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Cheaper by the Dozen 2 followed 2003's Cheaper by the Dozen. The first film, a remake of the 1950 movie of the same name, centered on a large family as they adjusted to their new lives in a new town. The sequel followed the family as they took a vacation and went head-to-head with a rival family.
Martin, 79, starred as patriarch Tom Baker, while Bonnie Hunt played his wife, Kate Baker. Alongside Stoner, the other twelve Baker children were played by Piper Perabo, Tom Welling, Hilary Duff, Kevin G. Schmidt, Jacob Smith, Forrest Landis, Liliana Mumy, Morgan York and Blake Woodruff, plus Brent and Shane Kinsman.
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Lautner starred in Cheaper by the Dozen 2 as Elliot Murtaugh, one of the members of the rival family the Bakers go up against in the film.
Other members of the Murtaugh family included dad Jimmy Murtaugh, played by Levy, 78, plus Carmen Electra, Shawn Roberts, Jaime King and Robbie Amell, among others
Stoner opened up about their sexuality in a candid first-person essay published in Teen Vogue in 2018.
In it, they revealed that they'd fallen in love with a woman, before expanding on their overall sexuality.
'I, Alyson, am attracted to men, women, and people who identify in other ways. I can love people of every gender identity and expression," they said. "It is the soul that captivates me. It is the love we can build and the goodness we can contribute to the world by supporting each other's best journeys.'
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Stoner revealed that by coming out, they lost out on job opportunities. "I did end up getting fired from a children's show because they felt that I was unsafe, now that they knew I was queer, to be around kids," they said on an episode of I'm Literally Screaming. "So there was definitely discrimination."
Stoner is set to detail their life as a child actor in their soon-to-be-released memoir, Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything, out Aug. 12.
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