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

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.

A new poster for Let Me In has been released in preparation for Comic-Con this weekend.

A new video of Chloe training for Kick-Ass has been released. It’s part of “A New Kind of Superhero: The Making of Kick-Ass,” a documentary that will be featured on the Kick-Ass Blu-Ray, which goes on sale August 3.

You can pre-order your copy of Kick-Ass on DVD on Amazon for $17.99, or the two-disc Blu-Ray and DVD combo pack for $24.99.