Lest Twilight fans worry that vampire-chic has lost its momentum, rest assured: with the 2010 release of Let Me In, blood is still the new black. The American remake of Let the Right One In, a Swedish coming-of-age tale about a young boy who befriends a young girl (who is actually an ancient vampire), joins a field already littered with creatures of the night. Taking over for the boy and the bloodsucker are 13-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee and 12-year-old Chloë Moretz. McPhee, already an Australian Film Institute award winner for his role in 2007’s Romulus, My Father, appears next in this winter’s grueling, apocalyptic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, scrounging for food and safety in a decimated landscape with Viggo Mortensen. The Australian, whose real father is also an actor, attends school when he’s home, but readily admits, “I like being different from the other kids.”
Moretz, who has appeared in (500) Days of Summer and the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror—which, until recently, her parents wouldn’t let her watch—just filmed Matthew Vaughn’s ultra-violent Kick-Ass, about a boy who becomes a superhero. For that movie, the home-schooled Moretz, who plays Hit Girl, completed four months of martial arts training, learning to roll, flip and run up walls. She also learned to assemble and disassemble guns like an NRA lifer.
Moretz, who precociously insists, “I am mature but I’m still only 12,” thinks she’d like to be an actress for the rest of her life. If that doesn’t work out, however, she’s got her head in the clouds. “I would love to fly airplanes,” she says. “I think being a pilot would be really fun. Especially helicopters.”
Check out the article in the December 2009/January 2010 issue of Black Book magazine. The accompanying photo by photographer Hellin Kay – which was already added in scanned form last month – has been added to the gallery.
Chloë and Let Me In co-star Kodi Smit-McPhee are featured in a photoshoot by Hellin Kay in the Dec/Jan 2010 issue of Black Book magazine. You can check out a scan in the gallery.
Chloë was also named one of the “Top 10 actors to watch in 2010″ by ScreenCrave. Here’s what they had to say about her:
Chloe Moretz is still a tween, but has worked opposite some of the biggest stars in the business. Most audiences saw her in this year’s unromantic comedy 500 Days of Summer as Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s wise beyond her year’s sister, but 2010 has even more in store for the young actress. She’ll star as a gun toting assassin in the comic adaptation Kick-Ass, where she’ll play Hit Girl, the deadly young daughter of Nicolas Cage’s Big Daddy. She also landed the female lead in the English language remake of the vampire flick Let Me In, opposite The Road star Kodi Smit-Mcphee. Talk about being a bad-ass before you can even drive.
To see the full list by ScreenCrave, click here.
