Taylor Lautner, who captured teen hearts as a werewolf in the "Twilight" franchise in the late 2000s, will now hunt the mythical creatures in a new scripted television series starring as himself.

It's a sentiment that reads a bit harsh, especially when one considers that Lautner isn’t the only Hollywood star signing on to these meta-roles. In 2022, Nicolas Cage played a fictionalized version of himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,