In her role as Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s little sister in (500) Days of Summer, the joke was that Chloë Moretz is wise beyond her years. We’d all better get used to it. The 13-year-old actress has lined up a series of challenging, mature parts over the next several months: She’ll first be seen as the ultraviolent Hit Girl in Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, then star as a child vampire in Let Me In (a remake of the recent Swedish sleeper Let the Right One In). In between, a more G-rated audience might catch Moretz in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, though the actress herself is no pushover.
As Moretz prepares for the release of the already controversial Kick-Ass, she talked to Movieline about her suddenly high-gear career.
You so often get cast as these young characters who are mature for their age. Do you feel that way in real life?
In real life, when I’m around my friends and family, I’m basically like a three-year-old. When I’m on set, I’m “Actor Chloë,” but when they say, “Cut,” I turn into a three-year-old. Read More