Considering she’s just 16 years old, Chloe Moretz has done a lot of controversial work over the past few years from playing Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s wise-beyond-her-years sister in (500) Days of Summer, a young vampire in Let Me In and the potty-mouthed child assassin in Kick-ass.
She’s not going to change any time soon either seeing as her next films are a remake of Carrie and Kick-ass 2.
Speaking to Nylon in the latest issue, she admits that she was unsure how well-received her character would be in Kick-ass. She says: “We all looked at it and were like, ‘Who knows what people might think?’ They might be totally offended and never want to hear from me again, or people might love it and go, ‘This is the raddest female-empowerment Angelina Jolie-type character for an 11-year-old girl.’ It was a big risk, a really big risk. People were saying to my mom, ‘What did you do to your child? You ruined her!’ But I was like, ‘It was my choice! I wanted to do it!’”
Unlike many actresses her age (and older) she seems to have a good head on her shoulders. Speaking about the wonders of social media she says: “I’ve learned lately that social media is amazing because it allows people who don’t know you to be inside your life. But you can’t let them in too much. I use it now more for publicity for my movies. I never end veiled messages like, ‘Screw you, you hurt me,’ toward someone, and not say who. Come on–you’re just asking people to look into it!”
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Posted by Amy Power.