Hitting theaters this Friday is “Kick-Ass,” from “Layer Cake” director Matt Vaughn. The movie follows a group of costumed crimefighters, only it’s set in the real-world so there are no actual superpowers to speak of. Which isn’t to say that the movie fails to live up to its title. A big reason for that is young Chloe Moretz, who plays Hit-Girl. She’s a tenacious little brat, beating up bad guys twice her size and more. She’s also rather foul-mouthed. How fortunate then that Moretz’s mother is so supportive of her daughter; she read the script and OK’ed it for Chloe. She also presumably OK’ed Chloe’s upcoming starring role in “Let Me In,” the Matt Reeves-directed U.S. remake of “Let the Right One In.”
Hear Chloe’s talk about her mother and the “Kick-Ass” script approval in the video below; you can check out the full report over on MTV Splash Page.
(via MTV)
Chloe Moretz is ready for critics of her foul-mouthed, ultraviolent Hit-Girl character in “Kick-Ass.”
“Don’t take it seriously. We’re not doing the real stuff in real life,” she said in a one-on-one interview at New York’s Le Parker Meridien Hotel.
The 13-year-old stars in the superhero comedy as Mindy Macready (also known as Hit-Girl), raised as a warrior by vigilante Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage).
Moretz trained for several weeks with Jackie Chan’s stunt team and only used a double twice.
Getting into character was “fun,” said the Atlanta-born Moretz.
“It’s the reason that I do every character. And when you put that wig on, that suit, you become Hit-Girl,” she said.
As a minor, she works “Nine and a half hours daily. Three of those hours have to be just school and rest. School comes number one. My mom won’t let me do the business if I wasn’t in school.”
The youngest of five and the only girl, Moretz admitted, “I don’t like having downtime. I like being busy, busy, busy because when I’m not busy I get really bored.”
While this is shaping up as her breakout role, Moretz is no stranger to the big screen. When she was 8, she played Chelsea Lutz in the remake of “The Amityville Horror,” in which she had to hang off the roof of a house.
She has yet to see that movie.
“It’s too scary,” she said.
Next up for Moretz: “Let Me In,” the American remake of a Swedish vampire flick, which she already filmed. Then there’s “The Fields” with Sam Worthington, followed by Martin Scorsese’s “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” “which is a fantasy film but I can’t really say much about that.”
“Kick-Ass” opens Friday.
(via Boston Herald)
This week, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Chloe Moretz don capes and codpieces as a pair of foul-mouthed, gun-toting superheroes in Kick-Ass, a movie New York’s David Edelstein says is a “compendium of all sleazy things, and it sings like a siren to our inner Tarantinos.” Luckily, fans of the pair won’t have to wait until Kick-Ass 2 to see them together onscreen again. When we spoke to Mintz-Plasse for a piece in the current issue of the magazine, he told us he also teamed up with Moretz for a segment of the upcoming anthology movie Untitled Comedy, which will feature contributions from Brett Ratner, Bob Odenkirk, and the Farrelly brothers, among others. “You know those movies like New York, I Love You, with those vignettes? The Farrelly brothers are doing that, but it’s twenty comedic shorts,” says Mintz-Plasse. “I got to work with Chloe in the same one. Elizabeth Banks directed it.”
In one vignette, as you may have heard, Hugh Jackman will play a guy whose testicles dangle from his chin. By contrast, Mintz-Plasse and Moretz’s short will be a touching coming-of-age story. Explains Mintz-Plasse: “It’s about the first time a 12-year-old girl gets her period and she’s with three gross guys. None of them know what to do, because none of them have ever been around a period stain before. It’s just very dirty and silly and stupid and lots of fun.”
(via New York Magazine)
