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)
Chloe is listed in Entertainment Weekly’s “New Stars for the New Year” in their January 8th issue. Here’s what they have to say about her:
Horror fans will remember Chloe Moretz from 2005′s Amityville Horror remake, but she also has indie cred from her turn as the knowing little sis in (500) Days of Summer. Come April, she’ll costar in the film adaptation of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but it’s really her role as foulmouthed mini-assassin Hit-Girl in the superhero flick Kick-Ass (also out in April) that has tongues wagging. Just a clip sent crowds at Comic-Con into a frenzy last year: ”I have this video on my phone from when I was walking on stage, and the crowd goes ‘Ahhhh!’ It’s the best video ever,” the 12-year-old laughs.
Check out scans in the gallery, along with a new (500) Days of Summer still.
