‘Kick-Ass’ stars in The Soft Pack’s music video'

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Chloe Moretz’s Hit-Girl doesn’t just kick ass on the big screen — she’s also a force to be reckoned with in a new music video.

Moretz, alongside fellow “Kick-Ass” stars Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Clark Duke, are the stars of a new music video for The Soft Pack’s “Answer To Yourself.”
The video, directed by Kashy Khaledi, puts a new spin on the high octane action seen in director Matthew Vaughn’s “Kick-Ass,” not to mention a whole new meaning to the term “food fight” as well.
In the video, a high school geek played by Duke sits by himself at a lunch table, quietly minding his own business as he constructs one of the most formidable Twinkie towers of all time. When a group of Varsity jacket-wearing bullies start getting physical with a bespectacled girl on the opposite end of Duke’s table, an unlikely savior comes along — none other than Moretz herself, donning the same schoolgirl uniform she wears in “Kick-Ass.”
But instead of butterfly knives and handguns, Moretz’s weapons of choice are decidedly less deadly but no less effective — shaken up soda cans and other various food products are the tools of the trade this time around, as an epic food fight breaks out throughout the cafeteria.
As Moretz is busy beating the bullies into submission, her “Kick-Ass” compatriot Mintz-Plasse voyages into the cafeteria armed with a bazooka. But instead of packing explosive firepower, this bazooka is loaded with a messy liquid that’s bound to ruin anybody’s day.
While the video eases off on the bloody violence seen in next week’s “Kick-Ass,” the action-packed mayhem is well intact. Furthermore, it’s nice to see these young actors getting a chance to cut loose without actually having to cut anything!

Just a Sweet Young Actress? $&@%# Right!

CHLOË GRACE MORETZ admits she felt a twinge of envy in the summer of 2008 when the action movie “Wanted” was about to be released, and the austere visage of its gun-toting star, Angelina Jolie, seemed to be staring at her from every billboard in Los Angeles.
So she put out the word to her Hollywood representatives: “I really want to do an Angelina Jolie-type character,” Ms. Moretz said recently. “You know, like an action hero, woman empowerment, awesome, take-charge leading role.”
A month later she got her wish when she was offered a part in the adventure film “Kick-Ass” as Hit Girl, a mysterious vigilante who leaves a trail of bullet casings and body parts wherever she goes.
“My mom was like, ‘It’s exactly what you’ve been wanting to do,’ ” said Ms. Moretz, who was 11 years old then. (She’s 13 now.)
The movie, which opens on Friday, is the director Matthew Vaughn’s violent and foul-mouthed satire about aspiring crime fighters who use traditional weapons to compensate for their lack of superhuman powers. While its maladroit title character (played by Aaron Johnson) learns the heroic ropes, it is Ms. Moretz, clad in a purple wig and matching pleated skirt and wielding a mean double-edged blade, who usually utters the foulest language and perpetrates the most gruesome acts of brutality in the film.
For anyone unfamiliar with the “Kick-Ass” comics series (written by Mark Millar, who also wrote the comics version of “Wanted”), Hit Girl has been the movie’s most persuasive ambassador: the Internet went wild this winter for an R-rated trailer in which Ms. Moretz enunciates an obscene word that little girls are definitely not supposed to say, right before she slices and dices her way through a room full of drug dealers.
But Ms. Moretz and her character raise a recurring question about what limits, if any, should be placed on young actors involved in adult storytelling, and to what extent these performers understand the roles that they are playing. For some critics Ms. Moretz’s performance is stirring the same discomfort they felt when a 13-year-old Natalie Portman strutted her stuff for the ruthless hitman played by Jean Reno in “The Professional.”
Mr. Vaughn, who previously directed the crime drama “Layer Cake” and the fantasy “Stardust,” and who wrote the screenplay for “Kick-Ass” with Jane Goldman, described Hit Girl as one half of “the ultimate father-daughter relationship, where Barbie dolls are replaced with knives, and unicorns become hand grenades.”
Raised by her father (played by Nicolas Cage) to be “a fully trained, brainwashed assassin,” Mr. Vaughn said, “she is not normal, and therefore the rules that apply to other people do not apply to her.”
In seeking a young actress who can be both sugar and spikes, it is not hard to see why the makers of the movie would gravitate to Ms. Moretz. On a visit to New York last month, lounging in a private suite at a boutique hotel in Manhattan with her brother Trevor, 23, Ms. Moretz had no trouble acting her age, fiddling with a bottle of designer water or spontaneously singing a chorus from Lady Gaga’s “Dance in the Dark.” (“This is Chloë after dark,” she explained.)
But when discussing her career she assumed the sophistication of an actress twice her age. Each film she appears in, Ms. Moretz said, “sets a new brick in my acting wall.”
“The more bricks I have, the better I am at acting,” she said.
She has built that wall quickly with movies like “(500) Days of Summer,” in which she played Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s precocious younger sister, and the 2005 remake of “The Amityville Horror.” She has hazier memories of other early roles, booked when she moved with her parents and four brothers to Los Angeles for her father’s plastic surgery practice. “I was so tiny,” she said. “I was a little 6-year-old.”
Trevor Moretz, who is also Chloë’s acting coach, and her mother, Teri, read all the scripts she is sent by her agents, and try to balance her grown-up fare with family-friendly movies (like the recent hit “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”). When “Kick-Ass” arrived, the Moretzes felt it was a showcase for Chloë’s grit and athleticism; they recognized its harsher aspects too but believed she was up for the challenge.
“Being the youngest of five children,” Teri Moretz wrote in an e-mail message, her daughter “has a very well-rounded view of the world.” She added: “It definitely pushes boundaries, but Chloë knows the things that Hit Girl says and does are fictional.”
For Chloë herself, Hit Girl was an opportunity to keep pace with her cinematic idols, to do something “no other kid had done except for Natalie Portman in ‘Léon,’ ” she said, using the European title for “The Professional.”
Not that Ms. Moretz knows that Luc Besson film firsthand. “I haven’t even seen it now,” she said glumly. “I’m not allowed.”
Nor had she seen many of the performances that Trevor regarded as Hit Girl’s antecedents, including Ms. Jolie in “Wanted” and Jodie Foster in “Taxi Driver.” She was, however, given a special dispensation to watch Uma Thurman in the “Kill Bill” movies. “It was hilarious,” Ms. Moretz said. “It’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m killing people with real blood.’ It’s fake.”
Before filming on “Kick-Ass” began, Ms. Moretz spent several months in Los Angeles, London and Toronto training in gymnastics, body conditioning and weapons safety. (“Always check your gun when someone gives it to you,” she said. “Make sure it’s a fake bullet.”)
During the six-month shoot she was also told time and again by her mother, her brother and her director that Hit Girl, and not Chloë, was the one swearing and shooting at villains. The lesson seems to have sunk in. “When they call cut, I leave it behind,” Ms. Moretz said. “You should see me after a crying scene.”
Ms. Moretz’s co-stars praised her for her maturity on set. Mr. Cage, who started acting in his teens, said he appreciated the dangers that child stars face “when not all the ideas are completely formed, and you can get into a lot of trouble.” He added, “You can do things that derail your path.”
Ms. Moretz is “not in it for those reasons a lot of people get involved in film making, the look-at-me syndrome,” he said. “She’s interested in building characters.”
But the filmmakers are bracing for the reception that the movie and Ms. Moretz may receive. In Britain, where the movie was released at the end of March, David Cox of The Guardian assailed its creative team and Ms. Moretz’s mother for allowing that swear word spoken by Chloë to become “acceptable parlance for children in mainstream movies,” adding, “We’ll be the poorer for it.”
Mr. Vaughn said this kind of condemnation was hypocritical because it attacked the movie’s language while essentially forgiving its violence. “I was like, ‘Does it not bother you that she killed about 53 people in this film?’ ” he said. “I’m like, ‘Would you rather your daughter swore, or became a masked vigilante killer?’ They’re going, ‘Yeah, I don’t know.’ ”
Via e-mail Teri Moretz wrote that criticism of her or her daughter did not hurt her. “We know who we are and what we believe, so we don’t listen to other people’s opinions,” she wrote.
The flap over the movie has hardly hurt Ms. Moretz’s career. She will next be seen playing a child vampire in “Let Me In,” an American remake of the Swedish horror film “Let the Right One In,” and has been cast in a film adaptation of “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” the Brian Selznick children’s novel about a Parisian orphan and his robot, which Martin Scorsese plans to direct.
Until his sister reaches the age when she is old enough to choose her projects for herself, Trevor Moretz said it is his and his mother’s responsibility “to look out for her in this industry, and make sure there isn’t any manipulation or exploitation.”
“She’s a very smart girl,” he added.
Ms. Moretz fired back, “Woman!”
He conceded, “She’s a very smart teen.”
Though she plans to continue acting, Ms. Moretz said she might like to fly a helicopter or go sky diving to help conquer her fear of flying. (“When you’re of age,” Trevor said, “go for it.”)
Asked if there was anything she wanted to do on screen that her family would not yet allow, Ms. Moretz said, “I want to wear heels, if that counts. Just give me some Christian Louboutins and a gun.”

Cat's Comment

there you have it folks a nice open interview with chloe and her brother Trevor Duke there has been a lot of dissing from certain media and newspaper's about Kick Ass it was as though Kick Ass was the most violent movie ever made it hasn't been given an adult rating in the UK however in America it has its been given an R rating which means Restricted.

i wonder if American's who can't see it themselves will come to the UK to see it

Chloe Moretz Defends Kick Ass

Chloe Moretz, 13, has defended her controversial role in the action comedy film 'Kick-Ass', claiming she understands the difference between movies and real-life.
Chloe Moretz says her portrayal of Hit Girl in new movie 'Kick-Ass' is make believe and people shouldn't take it so seriously.
The 13-year-old British actress - who plays assassin Hit Girl in the comic book movie 'Kick-Ass' by director Matthew Vaughn - admits she is quite young to play a character who uses such obscene language and violence, but claims that's the whole point of acting because she understands she could never get away with it in real life.
She said: "It's a movie. Obviously a little girl can't beat up and kill huge, heavy men. I don't see how anyone would realize it's not real. It is a controversial role, but it was a role I wanted to do. If I said a sixteenth of the words I did in that movie at home, I would be grounded for the rest of my life for sure."
Some critics claim Chloe - who was just eleven when she played the superhero in the 15-certificate film - should not have been exposed to scenes in which she had to gun down gangsters and skewer drug dealers with samurai swords, but the actress insists her mother was happy for her to take the part.
She told The Sun newspaper: "My mum reads every script before I go for it. She read it and loved the character because it was a challenging role and was something that would stretch me."
One thing the rising star wasn't prepared for, however, was the physical aspect of the movie as there was a lot of training involved.
She explained: "Two months before the movie started I started training to be Hit Girl. I didn't know it was going to be that physical. They made me do 1,000 crunches a night and like 50 pull-ups. I loved learning the martial arts moves."
'Kick-Ass' stars Aaron Johnson as the titular character and tells the tale of a comic book fan who decides he wants to become a superhero.

Cat's Comment

Chloe has defended the movie rightly so who in the right mind is going to watch this movie and think it is real i mean come on how many movies have you watched and then started copying i have never dressed up like Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th movies and gone out on a killing spree i mean come on you just don't do it do you 

People must think everyone believes everything they are fucking watching so well done Chloe for telling those sackless tossers who think kick ass is totally controversial anyone would think Kick Ass was the most   controversial movie ever made what i think is controversial is those lame dick heads from the newspapers who talk about something they haven't seen The daily Mail being one of them.

What's a nice girl like you doing in this?

Last year she was in Winnie the Pooh. Now Chloe Moretz is swearing and slicing off heads in one of the year's most controversial films. Horatia Harrod meets her.
Chloe Moretz is an actress who has just turned 13. You might recognise her from her role as the smart-talking little sister in last year's indie romance 500 Days of Summer. At age eight she starred in a re-make of The Amityville Horror, has appeared in Desperate Housewives and, most prolifically, voices Darby, a little girl invented for the animated US version of Winnie the Pooh. Unsurprisingly, this is the only thing resembling a controversy in Moretz's short career: Pooh purists were horrified.
A great many more people might blanch at Moretz's latest role: that of Mindy Macready, aka Hit-Girl, an 11-year-old assassin with a salty turn of phrase and a gleeful willingness to part man from limb.
Miles Millar, the creator of Kick-Ass, the bloody, bilious comic on which the film is based, says he wrote Hit-Girl as ''John Rambo meets Polly Pocket''. Moretz swears like a sailor and slices off men's heads. It's like preteen Tarantino, revelling in gore.

There is a passing moral reason for all the violence. Hit-Girl and her father, Big Daddy, played by Nicolas Cage, are avenging the death of her mother. But they don't have any superpowers. Big Daddy makes their costumes, his a Batman knock-off, hers a manga-inspired tartan number. All the brutal tricks that Hit-Girl knows, her father taught her.
Moretz has already received standing ovations from the geeks at Comic-Con, the world's biggest comic convention, for her work in Kick-Ass. But Hit-Girl is a part that would make many other child actors turn pale. And they are not the only ones.
On the same day I drive along a Los Angeles freeway to meet Moretz, The New York Times has a front-page splash on Kick-Ass. ''Isn't there a limit,'' thunders Nell Minow, a lawyer and denizen of a conservative Christian website, ''to what we can ask children to do on screen?''
Last week the Australian film critic Andrew L. Urban warned that publicity material and the film trailer could lead parents to mistakenly believe Kick-Ass was a frivolous teenage comedy. Here it is rated MA15+, meaning children under 15 can see the film if they are accompanied by a parent or adult guardian. That prompted calls for an overhaul of the film classification system.
Minow has a point. From the first - Hit-Girl opening a brawl with the line, ''OK you cunts, let's see what you can do'' - to the near-last (her brutal one-on-one fight with a grown man), Kick-Ass pushes the limits of what is acceptable. Sex, swearing and violence - in that order - jar with our ideas of what a child should be. In 1976 people were disturbed by the casting of Jodie Foster, then 14, playing a 12-year-old prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. In 2007 there was uproar about Dakota Fanning (aged 12) playing a rape victim in Hounddog. In 2000 a flurry of disgust was even reserved for Billy Elliot because the children swore.
So how is Moretz coping with the furore?
Her thoughts on the issue are straightforward: ''It's a controversial role. Did it make me nervous? Like I said, it was a role. I never really thought about the aftermath of it. And I knew that everything I was saying, if I ever said anything like it in real life, I would be grounded forever, literally forever.''
Despite the adult nature of the role, Moretz, who grew up just outside Atlanta, seems much like any other American 13-year-old, peppering her speech with ''likes'' and ''awesomes'' and invariably ''freaking out!'' when anything good happens to her.
The self-described ''tomboy girlie girl'' had always dreamed of playing a character like Angelina Jolie's glamorous assassin in Wanted.
Little girls are rarely the leads in action movies, but her mother, Teri Moretz, who reads every script that comes to Moretz, took note.
Meanwhile, Millar and Matthew Vaughn, the film's director, were having Hit-Girl headaches. Executives were scared off by the script's graphic language and ultra-violent, blood-drenched mayhem. Moretz wasn't. Her mother read the script first. ''She was like, Chloe, it's exactly what you wanted,'' Moretz says. ''I read it and I was like, oh my gosh, I have to be Hit-Girl!''
Millar says: ''We were having real trouble finding someone. Then from heaven Chloe descended. It was like Jodie Foster circa 1976 walking in - this tiny person with that much attitude, who swore so convincingly, like a tiny female Joe Pesci!''
Moretz was in. Months of physical training followed. When she wasn't learning stunt moves, Moretz was being shouted at by former marines. ''They were all like: 'Get down and give me 20,' seriously!'' she says. ''I did about 50 pull-ups and 1000 crunches a day. Crazy.''
Moretz is now an adept handler of stun and smoke grenades, and can take apart and reassemble a gun with the well-oiled familiarity of a professional soldier. ''It's like Halloween every day,'' she says. ''Imagine that. Doing something totally different from who I am, every day.''
Other child stars have not fared well. Linda Blair, who starred in The Exorcist, says her teenage drink-and-drug benders had their roots in the trauma of spewing pea soup and mutilating herself with a crucifix. For others, simply being on set was terrifying. Sarah Polley starred in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen when she was nine. She wrote an open letter to Gilliam almost 20 years later, when she heard he was about to work with another young actress on Tideland.
''I remember being frightened most of the time,'' she wrote. ''I remember being in freezing water for long periods, losing my hearing for days at a time due to explosives … I had some fun, but it's pretty much obliterated by the sense of fear and exhaustion, and of not being protected by the adults around me.''
In the US the laws on child actors vary from state to state. Where laws do exist they focus on safety, education, working hours and pay. Nowhere do they cover the moral issues arising from a film's content. It is up to the parents - and the child's on-set teacher - to decide whether the child should be allowed to swear or appear in violent scenes (scenes of a sexual nature are covered under pornography laws).
Jane Goldman, one of the film's screenwriters, understands the concern about Hit-Girl's bloodthirstiness. ''If people are startled by Hit-Girl's violence,'' she says, ''that's something they're entitled to feel, but the fact that they would probably be more startled by the fact that she says 'cunts' I've always felt people overreact appallingly to bad language.''
Millar says part of the difficulty comes because of something lost in translation. The comic book world of Kick-Ass operates according to different standards of behaviour than those in the real world. ''The kind of stuff we're not that bothered about in comics would cause a furore,'' he says.
Some might find this a cop-out but there is no evidence that Moretz has been damaged by the things she has said and done as Hit-Girl. She has the politeness you'd imagine of a good Georgia girl and, despite the Joe Pesci comparison, when she tells me she's a scaredy-cat, I believe her.
For this Moretz's family must get some of the credit. When I ask how she plans to avoid the pitfalls of a young actress, she immediately mentions her mother. ''My mum's the one I look up to for everything,'' she says. ''I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.''
It must be hard for Teri Moretz to keep her child grounded. Recently Chloe did a photo shoot in couture Chanel and Givenchy gowns, and although her mother doesn't usually allow her to wear high heels, on that occasion she was forced to relent. And for her 13th birthday party, Paramount offered to host a private screening of Breakfast at Tiffany's for Moretz and her friends. Teri made sure that her daughter personally picked up all the popcorn that had been ground into the carpet.

                                     Cat's Comment

well well well this story is well bollocks other stars haven't faired well?

well isn't thet total fucking bollocks of course they well have Linda Blair is still acting even when she did herself with a cross (the exorcist) well cool .

Kick Ass Or Ass Kick

this is a comic violent movie the fact that it is a teenager rated movie (the UK)

in America it is an adult movie (R rated)

It must be hard for Teri Moretz to keep her child grounded. Recently Chloe did a photo shoot in couture Chanel and Givenchy gowns, and although her mother doesn't usually allow her to wear high heels, on that occasion she was forced to relent. And for her 13th birthday party, Paramount offered to host a private screening of Breakfast at Tiffany's for Moretz and her friends. Teri made sure that her daughter personally picked up all the popcorn that had been ground into the carpet.

oh right well who in blue fuck brought this up this is making chloe out to be some barbie doll and as for her mother not allowing her to wear high heals what a load of  crap chloe has worn high heals for quiet a while now please media get it right keep it real

come on fucking hell