Yep, Chloë Grace Moretz is Pretty Much The Coolest 16-Year-Old Of All Time
In case you didn't think so before, the star's recent Dazed & Confused cover feature confirms it.
Hollywood star Chloë Grace Moretz is just sixteen, but here are some of the cool stuffs she’s already done so far in her career: the Macarena with Maggie Gyllenhaal, gone swimming with Salma Hayek in Cancun, and received university advice from Denzel Washington. She’s also worked with directors Tim Burton and Martin Scorsese and, with the upcoming release of her new film Carrie, in which she plays the creepy telekinetic teen made famous by Sissy Spacek in the 1976 original, Moretz can add Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry) to that list, too.
“She has a sweet-as-American-pie heart-shaped face but could eat a Disney princess for breakfast,” begins Dazed & Confused‘s November cover feature on the star, which sees ‘Moretzian’ officially entering the pop culture dictionary. You can read the full article here, but first let’s take a quick look at some of the revelations that reaffirm her status as the world’s coolest 16-year-old…
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So far she’s played a child vampire in Let Me In (2010), an Alice Cooper-loving werewolf in Dark Shadows (2012), and a gun-toting runaway in Hick (2011), and oddly enough, this has kept her sane:
“It’s fun! I’m the type of actor that if I’m not doing something the complete opposite of who I am — the happy-go-lucky girl with the happy family — it’s boring.”
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She has some excellent advice for Anthony Weiner (the New York mayoral candidate who was caught in a sexting scandal earlier this year) about crotch shots:
“Get with it men, stop being creepy. No girls like it and the girls that like it are not good girls.”
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Thanks to her Kick-Ass training, she’s got some mad kick-arse skills:
“I have gun skills, I have knife skills and hand combat skills,” she says matter-of-factly. “For the most part, I can spar.”
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She grew up with four older brothers, so she can totally kick arse:
“With older brothers who beat you up to make sure that when you’re an adult you’re able to handle things, you can’t just sit inside with your dolls; you either learn to play football with them or you sit alone.”
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No, seriously. She can really, really kick arse:
At this point, she’s picked up her knife, fiddling with it an animated display of her ninja nous. It’s not threatening, it just makes sense that it’s the piece of cutlery she’s most practiced at wielding.
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She would probably be an “artsy weirdo” if she wasn’t tutored:
“My friends now, we’re the type of kids that probably wouldn’t be the craziest popular people but we’d just be doing our own thing and have huge ideas, dreaming beyond what we can even achieve. But that’s ambition, you know?”
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She worked really hard to get the role of Carrie:
Moretz battled through two five-and-a-half hour auditions and numerous marathon meetings with Peirce to prove she had the depth and fortitude to reprise Sissy Spacek’s Oscar-nominated 1976 performance as teen outcast Carrie White. “Even though everyone told me that I was too young, I’d never book it. I decided to do it and fight.”
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And relaxed even harder:
To keep creepy Carrie from haunting her dreams, Moretz was all about exhortative happiness off-screen: eating ice cream, watching the Miley Cyrus flick LOL and maintaining ABBA on heavy rotation. She [also] found herself clocking in 2am sessions spinning or running at the gym. “It was a way to calm myself down and mellow myself out. It was those endorphins that made me be like, ‘It’s good, I got it!’”
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She’s all for breaking gender stereotypes, which explains her choice of teen misfit roles:
“Until I was 11 it was a male world… Everything is turning round to where it’s all female empowerment. My mom has always instilled that in me because she is the strongest woman you’ll ever meet. So it makes me want to portray for young girls that you can be a strong girl. You don’t have to look at the guy to see what’s going on, you don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy.”
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Carrie is released in Australia on November 28.
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Andy is Junkee’s intern. She is mostly harmless, moderately cheerful and recently discovered she can justify her “drinking” and “drug” problem by telling people she’s a writer. She takes her cafe noir, no sugar thanks.