If you haven’t seen Kick-Ass yet, you’re missing out on a gem of a film. Directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Aaron Johnson, Clark Duke, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong and Nicolas Cage, the movie is about a high school kid who decides to dress up like a super hero and fight crime. But he has no special powers or real training. Needless to say, things don’t go as planned.
By now you’ve heard the deafening awesome buzz about Kick-Ass, so I say again…what are you waiting for? Go see it this weekend! Want another reason….read Matt’s review.
Anyway, at this year’s WonderCon, I got to talk with Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl) and Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Red Mist) about making the movie. While I tried to keep the interview serious and ask real questions…let’s just say they were more into having fun. You’ll see after the jump:
And for more Kick-Ass interviews, here’s screenwriter Jane Goldman and Aaron Johnson and Clark Duke. Also, last summer at Comic-Con, I was able to speak with Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse before I knew about the movie. Watch the interviews by clicking their names.
Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse
- I try to get them to be serious. Epic fail
- What’s the promotional process been like
- Did they think it was going to be such a good film when they got involved
- What scenes were they sad to see get cut out (deleted scenes talk)
- What do they geek out over
- Are they prepared for Comic-Con when people will be dressed up like Hit Girl and Red Mist
- Twitter talk
(via Collider)
When you were 12 years old, what were you doing with your life? To most, it’s a time to play in the park, fantasize about cloud shapes, and watch a lot of “SpongeBob SquarePants.” To Chloe Moretz, the tween years are a good time to launch a Hollywood career — and kick some ass.
“Basically, Aaron Johnson plays Kick-Ass,” the “(500) Days of Summer” star explained to us while discussing her new movie that seems likely to make her a household name before she even has a driver’s license. “He’s a regular, everyday kid — a nerdy comic book fan, and he’s like, ‘Why doesn’t anyone ever try to be Batman? Just a normal guy turned hero?’ So he goes out, tries, and gets totally beaten up; he gets stabbed and then run over by a car. … That’s when Hit-Girl and Big Daddy come in.”
Moretz is Hit-Girl — the C-bomb-dropping, gun-toting tween who wages war against the mob alongside her Batman-obsessed daddy, played by Nicolas Cage. The first time you see the duo onscreen, Big Daddy is firing bullets into the little girl’s chest — and from there, things get violent.
“We show up at [Kick-Ass'] house, say, ‘We know about you,’ and he realizes we’re real vigilantes,” Moretz said of the plot, based on the beloved comic book of the same name. “I’ve been trained since I was a baby to be this crazy assassin girl. But 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.”
Count Roger Ebert among those who seem bothered by Hit-Girl’s ruthless nature and the jokes that often come from it. But according to Moretz, all that ass-kicking is part of the character, and nobody should get too hung up on it.
“It’s a movie; it’s not me,” she explained. “If I ever uttered one word that I said in ['Kick-Ass'], I would be grounded for years! I’d be stuck in my room until I was 20!
“I would never in a million years say [what Hit-Girl says in this film],” she laughed. “I’m an average, everyday girl; when I act with my friends, I’m totally immature. … I have to go to bed at 9:30. If I’m up late on the computer, I lose it for two months.”
This week, li’l Chloe is appearing all over the talk shows; she has recently signed on to “The Fields” with Sam Worthington and “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” for Martin Scorsese. Later this year, she’ll return in a controversial remake of the Swedish vampire classic “Let the Right One In,” and director Matt Reeves is already calling her performance “primal.” Couple all that with the fact that Hit-Girl seems likely to be this year’s hot Halloween costume, and you can see how a 13-year-old girl could get a big head — that is, if she was anyone other than Chloe Moretz.
“My mom and my dad, they keep me totally grounded,” she promised when she dropped by our studio with no entourage and only her parents in tow. “My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she’ll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.”
(via MTV)
She’s young, but Chloe Moretz has been acting for almost half her life.
She’s had roles in films like “The Amityville Horror” and “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” appeared in shows such as “Desperate Housewives” and provided the voice for Darby in the animated series “My Friends Tigger & Pooh.”
But it’s fair to say she’s never done anything like “Kick-Ass” before.
Probably no 13-year-old has. She plays Mindy Macready in director Matthew Vaughn’s film about would-be superheroes. As Nicolas Cage’s daughter, she’s taught how to use weapons, how to kill, how to curse, and she hesitates at none of the tasks. Her uttering of one word in particular is drawing controversy, a word we can’t even hint at here.
She talked about the role recently, about her dream roles and about how her family keeps her grounded.
Q: You’re going to get asked a lot about a girl your age playing a role with so much violence and profanity. What’s your response to those who criticize you?
A: It’s a movie. It’s not real life and it’s not supposed to be taken as real life. You sit down in a theater and you watch the movie. Any time I said anything it was in the script, it was part of the character. That’s why I did it.
Q: So you didn’t ad-lib the profanity.
A: (Laughs.) No, definitely not. No ad-lib for me. My mom would totally ground me for the rest of my life.
Q: You get to do action, but you also play some more-touching scenes with Nicolas Cage, who plays your father. Was that difficult, to switch gears?
A: It was fun, you know, because I have to show the difference between Hit-Girl and Mindy Macready. Which was hard, and that’s why I really wanted to do it.
Q: How do you manage to keep in touch with friends?
A: It’s easy. I see my friends almost every weekend. And even when I’m not in town I talk to them in iChat and video chat. It’s basically like seeing them every day.
Q: How do you choose your roles?
A: I have my brother who’s my acting coach, Trevor. And I have my mom who’s basically my manager. Without them and my family, I don’t know how I’d ever make a decision.
Q: What roles would you like to play as you get older?
A: ‘Gone with the Wind,’ I would love to do that. And maybe ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s.’ Those are my favorite movies, so doing that would be crazy.
Q: Do you always want to keep such a hectic pace?
A: When I’m not busy I actually get really, really bored. It’s funny, I’m like, ‘OK mom, I want to chill for, like, two days.’ One day in and I’m like, ‘I’m ready to go get my next project.’ So my mom is like, ‘OK, here we go again.’
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“Kick-Ass” Week continues on MTV.com! Today we have stars Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse telling MTV’s Rick Marshall who their favorite ass-kicking characters and people are. Mintz-Plasse even pulls out an obscure reference to an early ’90s cartoon series.
(via MTV)
