Chloe Moretz doesn’t have a long resume yet, but she does have an impressive one.
The 13-year-old breakout star is making enough headlines to book a Martin Scorsese project, I Am Hugo Cabret.
Chloe shares with W magazine, “I was on the computer upstairs and the phone rang, and my mom went, ‘Chloë, come down here, your agent—your people—want to talk to you.’ When they told me, I was like, ‘Oh, my God! No way! This can’t be real right now!’ There I was in pajamas and my dad’s big shirt, and I booked a Martin Scorsese project.”
Martin’s admiration for Chloe is mirrored. “It doesn’t seem like—how should I put it?—a child acting. It doesn’t matter the age. She is an actor, above all. And a very, very good one,” he reveals
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Source: Just Jared Jr
The nominations for the 2011 Critics’ Choice Awards (airing Friday, January 14th, 2011 on VH1) were released today and we are pleased to announce that Miss Chloë was nominated twice in the category for ‘Best Young Actor/Actress’ for Let Me In and Kick Ass.
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Elle Fanning – “Somewhere”
Jennifer Lawrence – “Winter’s Bone”
Chloe Grace Moretz – “Let Me In”
Chloe Grace Moretz – “Kick-Ass”
Kodi Smit-McPhee – “Let Me In”
Hailee Steinfeld – “True Grit”
“Thirteen-year-old Chloe Grace Moretz was nominated in the best young actor/actress category twice for Let Me In and Kick-Ass.”
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Fashionistas are getting younger and younger these days.
This past weekend, Sally Singer‘s T featured 13-year-old Chloë Grace Moretz, star of Kick-Ass and the forthcoming The Fields styled in a Wren tunic (Moretz wore it like a dress). She wore Chanel Resort to her last awards show. In Milan this past season Willow Smith made the rounds with mom Jada, sitting front row at Dolce & Gabbana, Ferragamo and Emporio Armani. And Emma Watson, a college sophomore, can do no wrong on the red carpet. Bloggers Tavi Gevinson and Jane Aldridge have proven that style doesn’t necessarily come with age or fame.
There are countless other stylish stars (movie and internet) who can’t legally drink but dress better than me. Here are our top 10 mini trendsetters.
Source: Fashionista
Winner: Chloe Grace Moretz. She gave a star-making turn in Kick-Ass as a foul-mouthed crime-fighter and then starred in the criminally ignored vampire film Let Me In. You’ll be seeing more of her in 2011 in films with Martin Scorsese and Sam Worthington, among others. Check out the year’s other highs and lows in Hollywood.
Source: NBC Bay Area
School’s out, wizards! After a decade of playing Hogwarts students, the cast of the Harry Potter movies has finally graduated. Part I of the final film installment hit screens last week, and Part II is set for a July release.
Stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint are said to have shed tears on the last day of filming. But Tom Felton, who’s played Potter’s pale nemesis Draco Malfoy all these years, is relieved to finally step off of the set where he quite literally grew up.
Movie stardom has drawbacks, Felton told Britain’s Daily Mail: Schoolmates teased him. He was contractually bound to avoid the sun for 10 years. And heaps of money—combined with teenage naïveté—got him into trouble with the tax man.
“One thing that people [say] to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood,” said Felton, who dismisses the idea as ridiculous. “You will never get those years back, and you can’t put a price on them.”
Indeed, young stardom is a precarious state of being. Some actors, like Natalie Portman and Neil Patrick Harris, spin early fame into brilliant careers; others, like Lindsay Lohan and Corey Haim, spin out of control before they’re even old enough to legally see their own R-rated flicks.
You’ve got to wonder what will become of Felton and his Potter castmates now. Will they succeed as entertainers with longevity—or succumb to the all-too-common Curse of the Child Star? And what is it about show biz, anyway, that lures so many talented kids into squad cars, courtrooms, and rehab centers?
One explanation? It’s lonely at the top.
“It’s hard to find real friends when you’re in the business,” said Chloë Grace Moretz, the 13-year-old star of Kick-Ass and Let Me In, during a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly. “Either people want to be famous or they’re jealous of you.”
She’s been followed by stalkers, shoved into the street by paparazzi, and had her personal Facebook and Twitter accounts hacked. Okay. I can see how that might make you nutty.
Stars are notoriously surrounded by sycophants and yes-men with false loyalties, but Moretz said her mother keeps her grounded. “Everyone is always getting you drinks or whatever on set,” the teen said. “And my mom is always like, ‘No, if she wants a drink, she’ll get it herself.’”
Smart move on mom’s part—because parenting seems to be the greatest predictor of child stars’ success.
“What’s the difference between a Ron Howard and a Jodie Foster who survived fame and thrived, and the Lindsay Lohans who started circling the drain once they hit their mid to late teens?” asked Maggie Jessup, author of the new book Fame 101, which examines the opportunities and pitfalls of celebrity. When a family’s balance of power shifts—because the parents rely on the child’s income or live vicariously through the fame—that little superstar is doomed.
“Whether you’re a celebrity or not, if you let the kid have the control in the family, you’re gonna have a rotten kid,” said Jessup. “If that rotten kid has unlimited money and a camera following them everywhere, it snowballs. They rebel because they don’t know how to handle all that, and then everybody gets disgusted with them, and it’s like they’re trying to claw their way out of this hole with all the wrong tools.”
According to Tom “Malfoy” Felton—whom I predict is going to do just fine—the best tool a young actor can carry through Hollywood is an industrial-grade flattery filter. “If you have enough smoke going up your backside,” he said, “eventually you will start to breathe it.”
Source: Independent.com
