Chloe Moretz bends over backwards in this new outtake from the May 2011 issue of Nylon magazine.
Styled by Michelle Reneau, in between modeling looks from Chanel, Prada and Burberry, the 14-year-old actress told the mag that she knows how to keep herself grounded.
“My mother will say, ‘You’re going to go to this photo shoot and wear Chanel and all these crazy designers, but at the end of the day you’re Chloe and you’re a regular girl,” she shared.
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Chloe Moretz gets asked to punch people in the face.
The 13-year-old actress admits she is often confused with her ‘Kick-Ass’character, foul-mouthed assassin Hit Girl, and is subjected to some bizarre requests from fans.
She said: “I’ve had people be like, ‘Hey hit me! Hit me in the face,’and I’m like, ‘No, I really don’t think I should do that.’”
Despite turning down the requests for people wanting to be punched, Chloe insists she can be tough, particularly if someone has upset one of her friends.
She told BANG Showbiz: “I’m tough, somewhat. I defend my friends you know, but I don’t go round hitting anyone or anything.”
Though Hit Girl notoriously uses foul language in ‘Kick-Ass’- which also starred Nicolas Cage – the teenage star is banned from swearing at home.
She said: “Do I swear at home? Oh no, my mom would totally kill me, I’d be grounded for the rest of my life if I swore at home.”
Source: AskMen.com
It feels strange to come away from a half-hour chat with a 13-year-old girl feeling like you’ve survived a rigorous mental workout, but Chloe Moretz, sweary star of Kick-Ass and child vampire of Let Me In, keeps you on your toes. Waiting to go into a plush drawing room in a London hotel, there’s talk of Chloe hating her new hair, cut into a bob for a role in Martin Scorsese’s latest, Hugo Cabret. It adds fuel to a lazy half-suspicion that I’m about to meet a precocious Hollywood brat, like the hyperactively PR-savvy Macaulay Culkin that appeared on Wogan in 1991. But once we start to talk, it’s apparent that she’s whipsmart and funny, going off on tangents, obsessing over couture fashion, and delivering laconic answers with an air of arch amusement. Of the time she hung out with Brad Pitt: “It was amazing, but I was like, ‘Brad, where’s Angie?’” And on the subject of celebrities’ secret hair extensions: “Boom! It’s magical Hollywood magic. She has long hair overnight. I wonder where that came from?”
Chloe may sound a little old before her time, but then she has been in the business since she was five. Right now she’s combining promo for Let Me In with shooting the Scorsese film in London, though she had a break to attend pop culture convention Comic-Con in San Diego, from which she’s just flown back. “I went for Kick-Ass last year, so it was same song, second verse. Last year I was unknown, but now everyone’s like, ‘You were great in Kick-Ass, what’s going on now?’ It’s a little bit easier to have talking points.”
Though she started out with smaller roles in The Amityville Horror and (500) Days Of Summer, Kick-Ass is where Chloe made her name, as the ultraviolent superhero Hit Girl who drops the “C-word” in one of her earliest scenes, and slashes up baddies with precision and glee. She was 11 when she filmed it. “But it’s in context to the character,” she says. “All she knew was these films with cussing and shoot-’em-ups.”
The film that took her to Comic-Con a second time is Let Me In, the inevitable Hollywood remake of the Swedish hit Let The Right One In, about the eerie, beautiful friendship between a bullied schoolboy and a 12-year-old vampire. Chloe admits that it’s a hard film to define, but has a stab at it anyway. “It’s romantic, it’s horror, there’s blood here and there, and there is some comedy in it, but at the same time you’ll cry and have a sad smile on you face. So,” she pauses for breath, “it’s like a crying, happy, smiley, sad, blood, not blood, romantic thing.”
Its central characters may be kids, but Let Me In is a grown-up film with flashes of brutality not dissimilar to those in Kick-Ass – although it’s more about sadness than celebration. You imagine it was more of a challenge for Chloe to play the vampire Abby with such an impressive world-weariness and resigned horror at what she is and how she must behave to survive. That, and the fact that director Matt Reeves stayed largely faithful to the smalltown inertia of the original by moving it to a surprisingly snowy region in New Mexico. “I was completely barefoot in the snow,” Chloe says. “Nothing on my feet. Thankfully there are two scenes with boots on … I had about 16 socks on.” Are there not labour laws against that kind of thing? She laughs: “I did it willingly.” She didn’t watch the original so as not to influence her interpretation of the character. “We wanted a fresh take on it,” she explains. “But also, my mom wouldn’t let me.”
‘A lot of people out there are fake and want to be your friend, just ‘cos you’re in the movies … treat me like a normal 13-year-old girl’
When she talks about acting, Chloe almost always says “we” instead of “I”. Who does she mean? “Me, my brother and my mom.” Her older brother/acting coach Trevor is currently sprawled across an armchair in the corner of the room, “supervising” our interview, but he’s mostly on his BlackBerry, ignoring us. “My mom usually reads all the scripts to begin with, then she gives them to Trev, and if they think it’s what we’re looking for, they give me the synopsis and I go, ‘Cool! Let’s do it!’” Her family travel with her everywhere, Trevor especially, and it seems to play a big part in keeping her normal. That, and the fact that she attends “a real school” when she’s at home, “so I can go to graduation or prom or whatever.” She says history is her favourite subject, though she’s learning French at the moment, and treats me to a quick lesson in conjugations (swimming, drinking and eating – all useful knowledge).
So far, so normal, except the fame thing has already brought its hangers-on, even at 13. “There’s a lot of people out there that are fake and want to be your friend, just ‘cos you’re in the movies and stuff and it will give you higher social cred,” she says, a touch sadly. “When you go to birthday parties there are always people that are like, ‘Can I be your friend? Can I have your phone number?’ No, you know? Treat me like a normal 13-year-old girl, like I am, and I’ll treat you like a normal person.” Then, for no reason, we start talking about The Vampire Diaries and how she got starstruck at Comic-Con when she met the lead actress. “There’s Nina Dobrev, and I’m like, ‘Oh my god!’ I looked at her and she smiled at me like, ‘I don’t know who you are, please don’t hurt me.’ Then of course, there’s Ian Somerhalder …” At this point, she semi-swoons. “It’s kind of creepy ‘cos he’s older than me, but hey, it’s OK. It’s love. Age is just a number.”
I make the mistake of asking if she’s a Twihard, an obsessive fan of the Twilight movies. “My friends really love it,” she says. “But I’d say that, just as a hint, I watched season two of the Vampire Diaries, the whole season, in two days.” We talk about fashion a lot, as she mentions that she’s a big fan of the 14-year-old Style Rookie blogger Tavi Gevinson. “She’s our favourite,” shouts Trevor, “she’s so chic, we love her!” Chloe insists she wants to meet her, “So if she reads this, come tweet me.”
Then she spins off on a tangent about how she has a small colony’s worth of followers on Twitter and what she should do with her empire: “The island’s going to be made out of shredded Givenchy cloth.” However, these plans for “the United States of America Two” are quickly scrapped, because “I don’t think my mom would approve of me starting a colony”, and it’s time to wrap up.
And at the end of all that, it turns out she does like her hair in a bob after all. “It’s great,” she says. “It’s a different look.” So, Chloe Moretz: definitely not a Hollywood brat. “But I am going to have long hair again, right after this film.”
Source: guardian.co.uk
‘I used to be Cinderella on the Disney Princess dress-up boxes,’ recalls 13-year-old Chloë Grace Moretz of her modelling days, aged six.
How times change. This Halloween, girls, big and small, only wanted one costume for dress-up: Hit Girl from Kick-Ass. A potty-mouthed, 11-year-old trained assassin described by her creator, Mark Millar, as ‘John Rambo meets Polly Pocket’, Hit Girl, as brilliantly embodied by Moretz, hit the headlines the second the young actress uttered the line ‘OK, you c***s. Let’s see what you can do now!’
‘A couple of fans have been, like: “Can you say it?”’ grimaces Moretz with embarrassment, ‘and I’m, like: “noooo!” It worked for the character but I’m not Hit Girl, I’m Chloë. And they’re, like: “Can you hit me? Go on, hit my arm, Hit Girl. Give me a bruise!”’
What’s most surprising is that Moretz’s otherwise demonstratively protective family, who won’t let her see 15-cert movies – not even Let The Right One In, the Swedish vampire romance whose remake she is currently starring in – would let their daughter yell the c-word in one. ‘They asked my brother, Trevor, first, because he’s my acting coach,’ explains Moretz, nodding to what looks like the eldest Von Trapp child lurking quietly behind me. ‘And he was, like: “Ask Chlo – it’s really up to her.”
‘So I said: “Well I’ll only say it once, and I’m not going to emphasise it.” Of course, as Chloë, I would never in a million years ever say that word.’ Of course not, I say, glancing at Trevor. ‘Does it not get inhibiting having your mother and brother on set all the time?’ I mutter.
‘It actually helps a lot,’ she insists, ‘because they’re there for me, you know? My brother is my crutch, without him I don’t know how I’d make decisions.’ Given that Moretz is now a teenager, how long this harmonious arrangement will last remains to be seen. At the moment, Trevor, aged 24, is in full-time charge of her career. He gets first refusal on every script. ‘If I like it, I tell Mom to look at it and then if Mom likes it too we’ll bring it to Chloë,’ says Trevor. ‘We figured out we tend to go for quirky or weird or heavy stuff because we are all pretty happy, so it’s more fun to portray crazy stuff that’s nothing like our everyday lives.’
And enough respect to Team Moretz for the roles they pick. Whether it’s Hit Girl or the smart-mouthed little sister in off-beat romcom (500) Days Of Summer, these unusual characters display a knowledge that seems way beyond their pubescent years – literally in the case of Abby, Moretz’s latest role, the profoundly lonely, savage, 200-year-old little vampire of Let Me In. ‘Little kid roles aren’t very interesting for me,’ Moretz says. ‘I like picking roles that will stretch my emotional boundaries; that will let me express emotions I can’t express as Chloë.’
When Moretz talks like that it’s easy to forget this poised, styled, beautiful female sitting in front of me is just 13. Of course she shouldn’t read every script, nor be unaccompanied on set, nor ‘hang out on the streets with my friends’ (her personal bugbear). Moretz’s mother even took her phone away recently until ‘I calmed down’ on the Tweeting. ‘My parents are definitely stricter than they were with my brothers,’ she groans. ‘No way!’ protests Trevor. ‘We didn’t get away with half the stuff you do!’ It’s all normal brother-sister banter and, though that teenage time bomb is ticking, here’s praying that, in a few years, Moretz won’t be doing a Lindsay Lohan. Rather, her role model is original hit girl Natalie Portman (‘I’m not allowed to see the whole of Léon but I’ve seen parts’).
In the meantime, she’s in the midst of shooting Hugo Cabret, Martin Scorsese’s first 3D film, which she’s ‘psyched’ about, even though she knows the acclaimed director pretty much by reputation only. ‘You’ve seen Aviator,’ Trevor says. ‘Yeah,’ she pouts, ‘but you won’t let me watch Taxi Driver! I wish, I really wish… but I’m not allowed.’
Let Me In is in cinemas from Friday.
Source: Metro
