It’s been a busy few days here at MTV News, as we’re presenting our “10 to Watch in 2010” selections all week long, and recently published an exclusive interview with one of my favorites: Chloe Moretz, a 12-year-old actress who seems like she’s going on 35.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Moretz plays “Hit-Girl” in April’s big-screen version of John Romita Jr. and Mark Millar’s “Kick-Ass.” And if advance audiences are to be believed, her ass-kicking character is four months away from becoming a household name.
“I’ve been trained since I was a baby to be this crazy assassin girl,” Moretz told us of Hit-Girl, who she hopes to reprise in sequels. “What I like about the character is that she’s an assassin, but at the same time she is still just an 11-year-old girl. She doesn’t know any better; it’s just how she was raised.”
Read the full article here.
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With 2010 upon us, we here at MTV wish you a happy new year. But, at the risk of bringing you down, there’s a good chance that a 12-year-old girl is gonna have a better 2010 than any of us.
Her name is Chloe Moretz, better known as Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s precocious little sister in “(500) Days of Summer.” This year she’ll not only enter her teens, but release three diverse, highly anticipated movies: The superhero action film “Kick-Ass,” the kid-friendly-adaptation of the bestselling “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series, and the vampire-in-love drama “Let Me In.”
On the big screen, she’s about to breakout as a badass assassin. In real life, her bed time is 9:30 and she has to refer to the movie as “Kick-Butt” around her parents. Recently, Chloe stopped by the MTV studios to discuss her inclusion in our “10 to Watch in ’10″ series, as well as where Hollywood ends and middle school begins.
Check out the article and read the full interview here.
In an interview with MTV, Let Me In director Matt Reeves dishes the film, and compliments Chloe and her co-star, Kodi Smit-McPhee.
MTV: And in your young stars, Kodi Smit-McPhee from “The Road” and Chloe Moretz, who’s going to be in “Kick-Ass,” you seem to have found two young actors who can bring a lot to the set.
Reeves: The idea that we have these two kids is kind of a dream. My God, those are very challenging roles! [...]
MTV: And Chloe, too, is getting all this buzz.
Reeves: Chloe is just remarkable. The thing that we always talk about is trying to find the way to not have her … she is a vampire in the story, so what does that mean? How do you play a vampire? The idea is to have her not play a vampire at all but have her play the reality of her life and the difficulty of her life, and that’s the way these two lonely souls connect. The two of them are just a joy to work with. She was one of the many people who came in, and I was like, “Oh, my gosh, she’s amazing.” All that “Kick-Ass” stuff happened after that, and so, in retrospect, I’m going, “How did it happen that we got these two kids that now everyone is now so incredibly excited about?” It truly is because their talent speaks so loudly that when they came in the room it was like, “Oh, these are the two kids.”
Check out the full interview here.
