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| • Moretz was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 10, 1997 • She is fond of video games, skiing and music • She is a fan of Rihanna and Britney Spears • She is seeing quite a bit of David Beckham’s son Brooklyn but no word about whether they are dating |
I love romantic movies but I would never have gone to watch If I Stay if Chloe Grace-Moretz wasn’t playing the lead, Mia Hall. I wish I hadn’t. Oh Moretz did her best, but playing a sweet and demure high-school girl with boy issues was probably not the best choice for her. She looked beautiful — not a difficult task really — she did all the things a 17-year-old can be expected to do — roll her eyes, pout — but because it was Moretz, I kept expecting her to do something crazy, evil or intense or at least just cuss a few times. I mean even her much younger brother said b***h. She is a teenager and no tantrums? But why would I expect something hardcore? Well let me tell you how I fell in awe of this girl.
The first time I saw Chloe Grace-Moretz she was 13 years old and playing the role of this 11-year-old superhero called Hit-Girl wearing a purple wig in a movie called Kick-Ass. At first it was a shock to see a little girl shooting and hacking and killing, and boy could she swear! And by swearing we don’t mean just b***h or f**k but really hardcore swearing that makes you goggle. It slowly transformed into jaw-dropping awe at the havoc she wreaked. Oh she was disturbing all right and you felt bad for the kid whose father, another superhero called Big Daddy, trained her into a fighting machine in his thirst for vengeance against a drug lord who framed him and lead to his wife’s suicide.
The movie was supposed to be about the titular hero played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson but Hit-Girl became the most memorable and stand-out character and that says a lot about the actress.
In fact, the next few movies of hers that I watched all happened to have her playing a not-so-normal character, whether it was the dark vampire teen in Let Me In or a shy-teenager turned killer-telekinetic Carrie in the eponymous film. So, her playing the role of a calm and composed sweet teenager in love with a slightly older rocker was more of a shock. It did not help that the dialogues were so corny that even an actress of Moretz’s calibre couldn’t quite save them from sinking.
After the catastrophic car accident leaves Mia in a coma and her parents dead, she has an out-of-body experience while she tries to take the call whether to live or to just give up. She runs around the hospital helplessly, sees bright flashes and has flashbacks to her relationship with Adam, her boyfriend. It is just that Moretz is to strong to really make the helpless act convincing, especially for someone who will always think of her as Hit-Girl, the ass-kicking, potty-mouthed superhero who could fell grown men with ease.
You could say I am type-casting and that hardly lets her show her skills as an actress, but she does have the edge that makes her thrive in darker and more complicated roles. And I am glad that she will be back on the territory with her next releases — from the deeply-disturbed teenager in Dark Places to a young prostitute in Equalizer.
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