When you were 12 years old, what were you doing with your life? To most, it’s a time to play in the park, fantasize about cloud shapes, and watch a lot of “SpongeBob SquarePants.” To Chloe Moretz, the tween years are a good time to launch a Hollywood career — and kick some ass.
“Basically, Aaron Johnson plays Kick-Ass,” the “(500) Days of Summer” star explained to us while discussing her new movie that seems likely to make her a household name before she even has a driver’s license. “He’s a regular, everyday kid — a nerdy comic book fan, and he’s like, ‘Why doesn’t anyone ever try to be Batman? Just a normal guy turned hero?’ So he goes out, tries, and gets totally beaten up; he gets stabbed and then run over by a car. … That’s when Hit-Girl and Big Daddy come in.”
Moretz is Hit-Girl — the C-bomb-dropping, gun-toting tween who wages war against the mob alongside her Batman-obsessed daddy, played by Nicolas Cage. The first time you see the duo onscreen, Big Daddy is firing bullets into the little girl’s chest — and from there, things get violent.
“We show up at [Kick-Ass'] house, say, ‘We know about you,’ and he realizes we’re real vigilantes,” Moretz said of the plot, based on the beloved comic book of the same name. “I’ve been trained since I was a baby to be this crazy assassin girl. But what I like about the character is that she’s an assassin, but at the same time she is still just an 11-year-old girl. She doesn’t know any better; it’s just how she was raised.”
Count Roger Ebert among those who seem bothered by Hit-Girl’s ruthless nature and the jokes that often come from it. But according to Moretz, all that ass-kicking is part of the character, and nobody should get too hung up on it.
“It’s a movie; it’s not me,” she explained. “If I ever uttered one word that I said in ['Kick-Ass'], I would be grounded for years! I’d be stuck in my room until I was 20!
“I would never in a million years say [what Hit-Girl says in this film],” she laughed. “I’m an average, everyday girl; when I act with my friends, I’m totally immature. … I have to go to bed at 9:30. If I’m up late on the computer, I lose it for two months.”
This week, li’l Chloe is appearing all over the talk shows; she has recently signed on to “The Fields” with Sam Worthington and “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” for Martin Scorsese. Later this year, she’ll return in a controversial remake of the Swedish vampire classic “Let the Right One In,” and director Matt Reeves is already calling her performance “primal.” Couple all that with the fact that Hit-Girl seems likely to be this year’s hot Halloween costume, and you can see how a 13-year-old girl could get a big head — that is, if she was anyone other than Chloe Moretz.
“My mom and my dad, they keep me totally grounded,” she promised when she dropped by our studio with no entourage and only her parents in tow. “My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she’ll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.”
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“Kick-Ass” Week continues on MTV.com! Today we have stars Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse telling MTV’s Rick Marshall who their favorite ass-kicking characters and people are. Mintz-Plasse even pulls out an obscure reference to an early ’90s cartoon series.
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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!
Let us know who you have a Girl Crush on in the comments section below, or send us a tweet and tell us who else you think we should feature @hollywoodcrush!
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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.
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Hitting theaters this Friday is “Kick-Ass,” from “Layer Cake” director Matt Vaughn. The movie follows a group of costumed crimefighters, only it’s set in the real-world so there are no actual superpowers to speak of. Which isn’t to say that the movie fails to live up to its title. A big reason for that is young Chloe Moretz, who plays Hit-Girl. She’s a tenacious little brat, beating up bad guys twice her size and more. She’s also rather foul-mouthed. How fortunate then that Moretz’s mother is so supportive of her daughter; she read the script and OK’ed it for Chloe. She also presumably OK’ed Chloe’s upcoming starring role in “Let Me In,” the Matt Reeves-directed U.S. remake of “Let the Right One In.”
Hear Chloe’s talk about her mother and the “Kick-Ass” script approval in the video below; you can check out the full report over on MTV Splash Page.
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