More From Chloe Moretz On Playing Hit Girl In Kick Ass

More From Chloe Moretz On Playing Hit Girl In Kick Ass

The young Kick Ass star reveals more about her training for the role of Hit Girl to MTV, and tells a story about her Dad meeting her on-screen Big Daddy, Nicholas Cage...

By MarkCassidy - Jan 21, 2010 08:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Kick-Ass
Source: mtvsplashpage.com

There's not a lot of new movie information here, I just think its interesting listening to such a young girls take on playing such a violent, controversial character..

“I’ve been trained since I was a baby to be this crazy assassin girl,” Moretz told MTV of Hit-Girl, who she hopes to reprise in sequels. “What I like about the character is that she’s an assassin, but at the same time she is still just an 11-year-old girl. She doesn’t know any better; it’s just how she was raised.”



In the interview, Moretx tells MTV about that infamous scene from the trailer in which Hit Girl dispatches quite a few bad guys..quite violently.

“It was absolutely amazing, and probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” she explained. “It was four months-plus training. Learning how to roll, how to jump over barriers and land on your shoulder. I actually came home one day, and I had a big bruise all the way down my back!”

“It was really fun to do. I learned how to take apart a gun, put it back together, clean it, but they’d never let me touch a gun [unless] I checked it first, made sure it was a fake bullet; if it was supposedly clear, I had to check it to [confirm] that it was clear.”

“While I was shooting the movie, even though I thought I knew [all the moves], it was still really hard to do,” she said of the film’s intricately-constructed fight scenes “Because you had to think about acting, and choreography of the scene. So, I’m going to have to be running and jumping and shooting in mid-air, while also thinking about my face and not [counting down the steps] like ‘1…2…3..oh no, I just said it!’ Trying to remember the steps: left foot, then right foot, then jump. That was really confusing.”

Apparently Moretz's father is a huge comic book fan, and she brought him to the set one day..

“I actually have a really, really hilarious story. My Dad is an Eagle Scout, and he carries a little pocket knife on him all the time,” explained Moretz. “Nic, he likes Red Bull, and he was drinking a Red Bull one day but couldn’t open it. He tried to pop the can, but the little tab fell off.”

“So, my Dad says ‘I can open that for you!’ yanks out his Leatherman and flips it open. He says ‘Here give me the can!’ and [sticks his knife in the top],” she laughed. “Pop! It spews everywhere! It exploded — it was so funny. But Nic is such a nice guy, he took the can and drank it anyway.”

“I was like ‘Wow, Dad!, I just want to crawl under a rock and hide right now!’”

After reading this I had a vision of Nic Cage wiping red bull from his face and giving Moretz's Dad his best Bad Lieutenant stare!

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Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 1/21/2010, 8:13 AM
Good find Ror. This little girl seems way behond her years.

Multi: I think your drinking it improperly.:)
vonstallin
vonstallin - 1/21/2010, 8:15 AM
:pedobear:
Imran
Imran - 1/21/2010, 8:18 AM
Haha that's awesome. Nic Cage! =D
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 1/21/2010, 8:21 AM
Multi: I don't think your watching his movies properly.:)
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 1/21/2010, 8:22 AM
I remember seeing Moretz in an episode of My Name is Earl a few years ago and she was great in that so I'm glad that she's doing well!

I cant wait for this movie or for the graphic novel - I still havent read this because I cant find the back issues anywhere! :P
longbowhunter
longbowhunter - 1/21/2010, 8:23 AM
Thats so funny. Her Dad sounds like a re-re!
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 1/21/2010, 8:37 AM
Can't really see her KICKING A$$ lol!

KICK ASS will be the sh1t!!

Gotta luv NIC CAGE! : P
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 1/21/2010, 8:41 AM
Really, it's a bunch of bee stings, nothing to worry about. I was at band camp camp and.....
antz1104
antz1104 - 1/21/2010, 8:48 AM
This movies gonna get Nic Cage back on my good side, can't wait!
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 1/21/2010, 8:48 AM
Lmao!! : D
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 1/21/2010, 9:00 AM
He never left my good side! The mans a Hollywood staple, a classic! Sure he's also an over acting buffoon at times, but what ya gonna do! Check out Bad L...great frakkin movie.
DDD
DDD - 1/21/2010, 9:12 AM
Yeah, I always have wondered why a lot of people are
all over Cages back! I like him in a lot of rolls!
Every actor has his not so great parts!
I think he will be good in this! This looks very good
from top to bottom! I hope it kicks some box-office ass!
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 1/21/2010, 9:50 AM
I have to agree with you guys - Cage is a great actor! I'm not sure that he was the best choice to play Ghost Rider but he was probably the only thing that saved that movie from being as bad as something like Fantastic Four! :P
ukboy28
ukboy28 - 1/21/2010, 9:54 AM
lmao at herpes comments :0

ive always liked cage, he's had his good parts and bad parts but he has done some awesome films over the years.
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 1/21/2010, 10:01 AM
Has anybody else on here watched this show? I think its funny as Hell.



georgia49th
georgia49th - 1/21/2010, 10:14 AM
Red Bull tastes like crap how can anybody drink it is beyond me, still Kick Ass is going to be awesome.:)
DogsOfWar
DogsOfWar - 1/21/2010, 10:18 AM
@Hawks-I caught the 1st 2 eps last week. Its on again tonight I believe. Hilarious!!! I'm not normally a motion animation fan but the dialogue is out of this world!
ThisFan
ThisFan - 1/21/2010, 10:23 AM
@Hawk yes i watch that show, it was super funny, did you see the show frisky dingo that was also a good show
StephenStrange
StephenStrange - 1/21/2010, 10:26 AM
@ Ror, UKboy and Josh: I really like Cage too. I have never been able to understand why so many people are down on him.
ukboy28
ukboy28 - 1/21/2010, 10:36 AM
darth@ me either, dont get me wrong he's done some bad movies but imo his good totally out weighs the bad, face/off, leaving las vegas and raising arizona are three of my favs.
StephenStrange
StephenStrange - 1/21/2010, 10:42 AM
@ UK: He's been in quite a few stinkers, that's for sure. I just saw one last week (Bangkok Dangerous) but he himself did just fine. I try my best never to blame bad storytelling or bad writing on the actor.

Taking a role in a bad movie is no reflection on the man's talent
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 1/21/2010, 10:43 AM
Cage has such unique quirks that no matter what he plays he is just a different aspect of himself in every role, ala DeNiro, Pacino.
I happen to love his movies.

Dogs & tyco: Glad I'm not alone. I caught the first two episodes last week by accident and could not stop laughing.
Dogs: Your absolutely right, the dialogue is out of this world.
I usually don't like this type of show either but this one is a major exception.
Can't wait to see tonights episodes.
ukboy28
ukboy28 - 1/21/2010, 10:46 AM
darth@ i agree man and funny enough you summed up what i was going to say, his talent not the problem, just his film choices(more recently in the last few years).
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 1/21/2010, 10:48 AM
I really like him in Matchstick Men.
ukboy28
ukboy28 - 1/21/2010, 10:51 AM
hawks@ fcking hell are people reading my mind today lol i was going to say that was one of his films ive always wanted to watch and never got a chance to.
DogsOfWar
DogsOfWar - 1/21/2010, 11:32 AM
@Tea-do you hear the crickets chirping?
DogsOfWar
DogsOfWar - 1/21/2010, 11:41 AM
DogsOfWar
DogsOfWar - 1/21/2010, 11:50 AM
Shaman
Shaman - 1/21/2010, 11:54 AM
georgia49th- YES!!!! I agree entirely!!! RedBull tastes like SHIT!!! In fact, i'm sure actual shit tastes better. Has anyone actualy tasted shit??? I like cheese even if it smells like fart! You never know... but Red Bull is godawful!!!

This girl is awesome!!!

As for Cage well... most of his films that i've hated were where the film itself wasn't interesting enough and all that was left was his face and his overacting. But i did love City of Angels and that's really something since i can't stand Meg Ryan and Cage will never be part of my favorite actors. He was ASTOUNDING in Family Man, one of my favorite family films. I enjoyed him in Con Air oddly enough. He was good in The Rock but way over shadowed by the greats, Ed Harris & Sean Connery. Hell, even Micheal Biehn was better. In Face Off, i liked the movie but not Cage. That movie was everything it was because of Travolta IMO. And oddly again, he was very good in Wicker Man even though the film wasn't. He sucked in Gone In 60 Seconds but the movie wasn't that bad. Thanks to Chi and Duvall. The rest just didn't snag my attention enough to overcompansate his face and over acting. But there are many of his films that i haven't seen as well. Raising Arizona? Hated it. Not my thang.

Dogs- That last image was priceless!!! I would so randomly create awkward moments of silence just to laugh my ass off!!! LMAO :P
DogsOfWar
DogsOfWar - 1/21/2010, 11:58 AM
Well Shaman, in the art contest thread, you said you liked golden showers with chicken & corn, so you tell me what it tastes like :D
DogsOfWar
DogsOfWar - 1/21/2010, 11:59 AM
Tea-
DogsOfWar
DogsOfWar - 1/21/2010, 12:10 PM
Good stuff Tea-2 threads at once, I think I'm cramping up

DogsOfWar
DogsOfWar - 1/21/2010, 12:23 PM
I know, you win. I didn't even notice it was Twi-blight until I posted it. Poor form on my part.
luffycapri
luffycapri - 1/21/2010, 12:26 PM
Chloe Moretz as Toph in The Last Airbender Sequel would be nice, but shes to tall now to play Toph.
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