It’s not easy to steal a scene from a Hollywood heavy weight like Nicholas Cage, but Chloe Moretz does it with the ease of a seasoned professional. This week’s Girl Crush isn’t old enough to be in high school but that hasn’t stopped us from choosing 13-year-old Chloe because with her maturity and talent, you really have no idea how old she really is!
With her role as Mindy Macready (superhero name: Hit-Girl), in “Kick-Ass” Chloe really does kick butt! You can’t help but stare in aw as she demonstrates her enormous acting capabilities and dynamite personality! Her no-nonsense character holds her own against the big boys, a role Chloe molds perfectly into.
Feel like you’ve seen her before? That’s because you have! Her first notable role was in “Amityville Horror” but more recently she made her debut in “500 Days of Summer.” Chloe played Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s precocious little sister Rachel Hansen and was unforgettable! The blunt audacity of advice she gave her older brother left us wanting more of her wise-beyond-her-years persona. After “Kick-Ass,” Chloe will be taking on vampire territory in “Let Me In” and will star in the Martin Scorsese-directed 3-D flick, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret.”
She even tackles the red carpet in an amazing way — looking classic, simple and age appropriate. The best thing she rocks on the red carpet is her confidence! We just can’t get over this little-lady on and off the screen. For more Chloe, click on our video above and check her out in “Kick-Ass” this Friday!
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(via MTV)
Chloe Moretz may know how to jump between rooftops, slice criminals with swords, and kick some serious mafia butt as Hit-Girl in Matthew Vaughn’s “Kick-Ass,” but the 13-year-old actress said she’s still just a teenage age girl when it comes to real-life combat.
In an interview with MTV News, Moretz said that if anyone confronts her she won’t challenge them to a brutal fight like her “Kick-Ass” alter ego.
“I’m still a scaredy-cat,” Moretz said. “Literally, anyone stands up to me I will freakout and call 911.”
But before the interview, Moretz exchanged playful blows with co-star Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who plays Red Mist in the film.
“I know when she’s going to attack me, and I’m aware of that,” Mintz-Plasse said of the only real combat skill he learned during filming.
Explaining away her playful wrestling with Mintz-Plasse, she said she hits him because he’s like a brother — and when she beats up her brothers, they’re not afraid to hit back.
“I will not hit you,” Mintz-Plasse said. “I will not hit a child. I mean a teenager, I’m sorry.”
“He’s scary,” Moretz joked.
(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)
So far, 13-year-old actress Chloe Grace Moretz’s career has been full of polar opposites. For every straight-to-DVD Tigger & Pooh movie, there’s The Amityville Horror, The Eye and Today You Die. And Wicked Little Things? More zombies than teddy bears in that one, too. You can see her in the book-turned-movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid now, but in just one week, you can see Moretz in all her foul-mouthed, fist-throwing, knife-flipping glory as the tween superheroine Hit Girl in the comic-turned-flick Kick-Ass. I caught up with Moretz recently for a Who’s News item while she was in New Mexico filming Let Me In, the American remake of the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In. We talked about Kick-Ass (which is officially the first R-rated movie her parents ever let her see), being a Hollywood teen and what hobby she really wants to take up. Plus, check out this clip from Kick-Ass featuring Moretz and her on-screen dad, Nicolas Cage.
So with as many four-letter words as you utter as Hit Girl, how did you ever convince your parents to let you do Kick-Ass?
It’s a movie and it’s not real. It was really funny because about a month before we got the script for the movie, Wanted came out. I was in the car with my mom, and this is a true story, no faking or anything, I was like, “Oh my God, mom, I really want an Angelina Jolie action kids role!” She was like, “They don’t make kids movies like that.” A month later, we got a script for Kick-Ass and my mom read it, and she was like, “Oh my gosh, Chloe. You’re gonna love it! It’s an amazing role and exactly what you’ve been wanting.” From the get-go, we wanted the film really badly. I read it and I was like, “I have to be Hit Girl!” I did the whole process, and eventually I booked it and I freaked out. I was screaming for two days straight.
You must have the coolest mom ever. Do you watch a lot of action flicks with your parents?
I do. My dad and I watch a lot. We watch bunches of action films. I’ve always been into comic book movies like Spider-Man and The Dark Knight and all that stuff.
You have a lot of action scenes in Kick-Ass. How many of those stunts did you actually do?
I did a lot of my stunts. A lot of the crazy flips like the one you see in the commercial where the guy jumps and he gets hit in the neck really hard and he does this crazy flip in the air, of course that wasn’t me. But I did four months of training for the movie and almost all my stunts.
Did you have a favorite stunt?
We did this jetpack scene where I had to be in the air, and we didn’t really move but I was 20 feet up basically on wires, which was pretty awesome. I liked learning how to flip the Balisong [knives] and stuff.
It doesn’t sound like you have a lot of fear.
In real life, I’m pretty much a scaredy cat. I know how to do all these stunts and protect myself, but if someone went up to me and tried to take me, I would totally just blank and scream. [Laughs]
Nicolas Cage plays your dad in the film. How was it working with him?
It was really, really fun. I was really nervous to work with him, and literally the minute I met him, I was like, “Oh my gosh, he is the coolest guy ever.” Working with him was amazing because you always learn everything from people like that.
I would think that would be a little masterclass in acting for you. What was the most important thing he taught you?
He is so big and he’s this amazing actor, but he’s so grounded. To see people like that who I look up to as an actor and as a person, it’s really cool to see how genuine he is. I learned a lot of that from him, and to always stay grounded and never get a big head. My mom’s always said if I get a big head, she’ll take me out of this business as quick as I got in it — quicker! I also have four brothers, so it’s pretty tough.
You play a vampire in Let Me In. Are you all into vampires?
I am. I’m a sucker for Interview with a Vampire.
Your second film was The Amityville Horror in 2005. Do you watch a lot of horror movies?
No, I’m absolutely terrified of scary films. You should see me. My friends and I, whenever we have sleepovers, they’re like, “Let’s watch a scary movie!” And I’m like, “No. No no no no no. No. You cannot make me!”
Do you like the movie premieres and other glitzy stuff?
No. It’s cool and everything, but I do it because I love it. I don’t do it for the fame and everything. I do it because it’s what I love and it makes me happy to do it.
Are you homeschooled while on set?
I was in “regular” school until third grade, but after that I got so busy I couldn’t do it anymore. I’m doing homeschool and it’s basically like an in-house private school program. I have to send in all my work and I have a teacher.
Favorite subject?
History for sure, definitely. Actually, I love the 1800s — it really interests me.
What are your other interests outside of acting?
I love music. I used to be in a soccer league, but I got really busy and had to quit. I do a lot of stuff with my brothers.
Are your brothers into the arts or are they “normal”?
Yeah, I’m a total weirdo. [Laughs] Two of my brothers are into it, and two of my brothers aren’t. One brother, Colin, is a writer and my other brother, Trevor, is my acting coach/brother, so he’s an actor too.
Were they inspirations?
Yeah. My brother Trevor is actually the one who got me into it. He’s always been really, really into movies and everything. As a kid, he was always like, “I want to be a director!” When he got accepted into this performing actors high school, where they choose 500 kids out of millions, he was chosen out of this small town in Georgia. We moved to New York and he really got into it, and our manager was like, “I want her too!” And then my other brother Colin got into it and he did modeling. Trevor used to bring his sides home, and I would run them with him and memorize his sides. I was a little 5-year-old at this point. We wouldn’t even have to use the paper – we’d just go back and forth running the lines together. It was pretty cool. That’s how we got into it and then we moved to Los Angeles for my dad’s business. He’s a plastic surgeon, and he and my mom, who’s a nurse practitioner, met in medical school.
No medicine for you?
If acting doesn’t work out, I’ve always wanted to do something in the business. I’ve always wanted to be a director or a writer, but I really want to do is fly airplanes.
Harrison Ford learned how, so probably anyone can.
I totally want to. Especially helicopters. Helicopters are my favorite!
(via USA Weekend)
