Cuckoo: Taylor Lautner "does all his own stunts" #TaylorLautner

Tyger Drew-Honey has described his new Cuckoo co-star Taylor Lautner as "fantastically talented".

Twilight star Lautner will join the BBC Three sitcom for its second series, stepping in for the absent Andy Samberg.

"It's great," Drew-Honey told Digital Spy. "He's a really lovely guy - we get on really well. We're just like mates.

"He's fantastically talented - not only [can he do] comedy acting, but he does all his own stunts."

However, the 18-year-old actor admitted that he does miss working with original Cuckoo lead Samberg, who now stars in US sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

"Whenever you do a show with any cast and crew, you get this bond and everybody's part of a team," Drew-Honey said. "So when it changes obviously there is that element of missing him."

Samberg starred in the first series of Cuckoo as the title character - an eccentric hippie who causes trouble for Greg Davies's uptight father Ken Thompson.

Lautner will play a new character - described as "a handsome and mysterious young stranger" - in the second series, which recently wrapped filming.

Digital Spy

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