Chloë Grace Moretz

Thirteen-year-old Chloë Grace Moretz has killed more people onscreen this year than most adult male action stars. In April, she played Mindy Macready, a.k.a. Hit-Girl, the foulmouthed preteen who stabbed, shot, and sliced her way through Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass. (Sample line, spoken in an Eastwoodian whisper: “Okay, you cunts. Let’s see what you can do now.”) She’s following that up with the equally shocking Let Me In, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves’s unnerving remake of the dark Swedish vampire hit Let the Right One In. But where Kick-Ass was a flamboyantly gruesome, candy-colored action fantasy, Let Me In is understated and heartbreaking.

A preteen supernova in R-rated movies presents some complications. Moretz’s mother, Teri, was criticized for letting her daughter act in Kick-Ass—though, oddly, people were more upset by the language than the body count. Moretz notes that her mother and her acting coach, who happens to be her older brother Trevor, screen every potential script first, “and we make a decision as a family.”

In Let Me In, Moretz plays Abby, the perpetually 12-year-old, introverted bloodsucker living in the same Los Alamos housing block as the film’s much-bullied hero Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee). How exactly does an actress so young tackle a character as complex as Abby? Pretty much like any other intelligent actor. “Abby is a 250-year-old soul, she’s a vampire, but she’s also still a little girl,” says Moretz. “The trick was [how to combine] these three very different people.” That required sitting with Trevor and “breaking apart the character. We know Abby’s really lonely. She doesn’t like to kill or to drink blood. She kills because she has to, because of the beast inside her.”

You’d have to go back to seventies Jodie Foster to find a young actress with Moretz’s preternatural mix of gravity and innocence, maturity and playfulness. The director of Foster’s Taxi Driver and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore concurs: Moretz is currently in Europe, starring in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo Cabret.

Source: NYMag

During an exclusive chat at last weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con, teen actress Chloe Moretz, a.k.a. Kick-Ass’s Hit Girl, gave us the skinny on her future projects.

Following the release of the upcoming remake Let Me In, Moretz will next be seen in Hugo Cabret. “It’s a Martin Scorsese project,” she said. “It’s his first 3D film and it’s with Asa Butterfield playing Hugo Cabret, me playing Isabel, and Sir Ben Kingsley playing my father, [and] Sir Christopher Lee. There’s a lot of different people in it and it’s a really amazing film.”

Moretz called the Oscar-winning filmmaker “fabulous. I’m still working on it. I’m actually going to be there until late November so we’re still doing it.”

As for Kick-Ass 2, all Moretz could say was, “We don’t know yet right now. Matthew Vaughn is actually doing X-Men right now.”

She may not be kicking criminal ass again anytime soon, but Moretz still has a pretty full dance card coming up. “I do have a couple films that I am about to work on. I’m doing Old St. Louis, which we’re working out dates on, with David O. Russell directing and Vince Vaughn, he’s in it,” she said over a cup of coffee. “And this is Vince Vaughn’s kind of labor of love. He’s been working on it about eight years now and he’s really been working at it.”

Deadline reported today Old St. Louis is about a traveling salesman who reconnects with his estranged daughter, and that “actresses including Kick-Ass star Chloe Moretz have been mentioned as possibles to play the daughter.” Given her aforementioned comments, it appears that Moretz has indeed already won the role.

“I also have a film with Karen Kusama, who did Jennifer’s Body, and she’s doing this film called The Rut, which is this really amazing, amazing role. And I also have a film with Derick Martini called Hick, which is based off the novel Hick.”

The Los Angeles Times says The Rut “concerns a father-daughter relationship and centers particularly on hunting, as a daughter must learn the tricks of hunting and archery taught to her by her father after said father goes missing.”

Taylor Lane Productions says Hick “follows 13 year old Lulli McMullen, a Nebraska teen who gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas. Part coming-of-age story and part raggedy picaresque, Hick leads us at a blinding pace down broken roads through a world thats seems to this extraordinary and indomitable young girl, dangerously uncharted.” The book’s author, Andrea Portes, also penned the screenplay adaptation.

Let Me In opens October 1.

(via IGN)

Karyn Kusama is looking to follow up Jennifer’s Body, which she directed from Diablo Cody’s script, with The Rut, a film about a father and daughter who have a relationship based around hunting and survival. To make things more interesting, Chloe Moretz is in talks to star as the daughter.
The LA Times says The Rut “concerns a father-daughter relationship and centers particularly on hunting, as a daughter must learn [sic; I expect that should be 'use'] the tricks of hunting and archery taught to her by her father after said father goes missing.” From that explanation, especially thinking of Moretz in the role, I get the sense of Kick-Ass mixed with Joe Wright’s forthcoming Hanna.

You’re probably getting the feeling that we’ll be seeing Moretz in as many films as her family will let her line up over the next few years, and I’d expect you’re right. This is the second one today for which she’s said to be a candidate. The other was Old St. Louis, the film that David O. Russell is lining up with Vince Vaughn.

(via SlashFilm)

A new red band trailer for Let Me In has been released. Check it out on Let Me In’s Facebook page or watch it below.

Chloe attended Comic-Con to promote Let Me In, where new footage was released and a Q&A panel with the cast and crew was conducted. Check out new pics in the gallery:

You’ll find a detailed description of the shown footage from UGO here. Check out the brand new trailer posted by MTV:

According to Chloe’s brother, Trevor, Chloe confirmed that she will be in the new film The Rut and announced her current negotiations for the film Old St. Louis. From Trevor’s Twitter:

The announcement are 1) She is in negotiations to be in a new Dramedy directed by David O’Russell and co-starring Vince Vaughn called ‘Old St. Louis’ one of the best scripts we’ve read all year. There are scheduling problems bit we are working them out. 2) She will be starring in a new film called ‘The Rut’ directed by Karyn Kusama,director of Jennifer’s Body, that my Mother and I are Executive Producing under our Treetop Productions banner, it’s a stunning drama that will show an amazingly vulnerable and independent side of Chloe.