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Who is Chloe Moretz?

Growing up as the only girl with 4 brothers it’s really no surprise that Chloe Moretz got her big break in a superhero flick.

The 13 year olds performance as crime fighting vigilante ‘Hit-Girl’ (Nicolas Cage plays her superhero dad ‘Big Daddy’!) in the movie Kick Ass has got people talking and there’s only good things ahead for this talented young thing, like playing a 12-year-old vampire in Let Me In, the American remake of hugely popular Swedish hit Let The Right One In. Watch this space, this girls going to be big…

Click here to read our interview with Chloe!

24/7 Girl: Did you have to do a lot of training to play Hit-Girl?

Chloe Moretz: I did a bunch of training about a month before the movie started filming, which was just basic training – ballet, gymnastics, working on my flexibility and conditioning, crazy crunches and stuff. Once the movie started taking off a little bit more, we did go more in-depth with the choreography and working with the guns, the knives and the bow staff.

Were they real?

Well I was training with a practice knife which is basically just a big piece of metal with two little sides and it has holes in it. That’s what I practiced with every day and I brought it home with me. But when I was on set it was a real knife that was dulled down so I couldn’t have hurt myself with it at all.

So you could kick our asses?

[Laughs] Ah-ha. I mean in real life I’m a scaredy cat. I might know how to do it but I’d be terrified. I’m afraid of spiders and snakes that are this big [makes a small circle with finger and thumb].

How do you deal with school? You’ve been in the business for quite a while…

Seven years. I’m home schooled but I went to school until third grade. I have all my friends since kindergarten and none of my friends are in the business so when I’m at home we rarely even talk about it.

Do you sometimes miss a normal teenage life?

I do have a normal teenage life. There’s so much drama in school, my friends say they’d rather be home schooled just because there’s so much drama. I have a pretty awesome teenage life. I get to hang out with my friends and then I get to go to London. My friends haven’t even been to London. So they think its cool having a friend that lives in London, not even doing this. They think of me as Chloe on her own, not as an actress.

You play a vampire in your next movie, are you into all the Vampire Diaries and Twilight?

Twilight’s an amazing movie. And Let Me In shows a different side of vampires, a less glamorous, less romantic side of vampires. It shows that being a vampire is a burden; it’s something that she – Abby – has to carry with herself. It’s not cool to be a vampire. It’s not something that’s beautiful and romantic, it’s something that’s dark and deep and it’s a demon inside of her basically. The whole vampire genre stuff is cool. One of my favourite movies is Interview with the Vampire and for Hit Girl I borrowed a little bit of Kirsten Dunst from Interview with the Vampire. I collaborated a bunch of different characters in it.

Hit-Girl has a pretty kick ass costume! What did you think of your costume and what was it like the first time that you wore it?

The first day I tried on the costume it was pretty amazing but I didn’t have a wig. Then I just had little pig tails like Mindy (Hit-Girls secret identity) had and so Matthew (the director) and I and a bunch of people came up with the idea of putting a wig on me because it was either pig tails or a wig. And so we decided that it’d be kind of cool to use a wig. We had about 10 or 20 wigs laid out on a character and I was going around trying them on. There was a blue one, a white one, a bright blue one, a green one and a yellow one but the one I really liked was the purple. If you look at it, it gives it a sense of uniqueness because a lot of people have a bunch of different type colours in their suit. But Hit Girl is basically all purple except for a little-bitty pink belt and a little bit of black. That’s why I like Hit Girl, she’s basically a girly-girl.

There’s kind of a gothic feel to it too…

Yeah, kind of. She’s a little girl playing dress up practically. Playing guns with her is basically like playing dolls.

What was it like working with Nicholas Cage?

We only met about once before we started filming. When I first met him I was so nervous, you know, it’s Nicolas Cage! Meeting him is nerve wracking, much less working opposite him. Actually our first day shooting was the scene where I get shot at the beginning that’s in a sewer. That was the first time we got to shoot and that was the first day of the whole shoot. So it was like, ‘hi nice to meet you’. Pffftttt! [makes the sound of a gunshot] But that was actually pretty cool, it was a good bonding moment.

Are you ready to do a sequel if there is one?

If there is one I would love to play Hit Girl again. Definitely.

And you’ll fight anyone else up for it?

Oh my. Maybe Mindy might but I wouldn’t. I’m always up for fighting for a role, but you know that’s different.

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