The 17-year-old actress is incredibly frank about celebrity as she moves from the New York stage to a French film to what may turn out to be the next giant young-adult franchise.
Chloë Grace Moretz at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival
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Chloë Grace Moretz is only 17, but she already sounds like she's got Hollywood's number. "I think there's something so much more innovative about French cinema than American cinema, because it's new and it's alive and there's something that is very raw about it that we can't quite capture, I think, in America yet," she told journalists at the press conference for Clouds of Sils Maria , which premiered at the end of the Cannes Film Festival.
While the film is in English, it is, in Moretz's own words, a "very French project" from director Olivier Assayas (Demonlover, Summer Hours) that stars Juliette Binoche as a famous actress struggling to deal with getting older, while a surprising Kristen Stewart plays her grounded personal assistant.
But Moretz gets to have the most fun as Jo-Ann Ellis, an American starlet and tabloid fixture who's cast alongside Binoche's character in a play. Jo-Ann is ruthless, talented, and wild, tearing up talk shows and playing angsty mutants in blockbuster franchises — but she's nothing so simple as a villain. Jo Ann is smart and wise beyond her years, and in that, at least, she has something in common with the actress playing her.
Chloë Grace Moretz in Clouds of Sils Maria
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Moretz, whose breakout role was playing the profane, pint-sized, purple-haired vigilante Hit-Girl in the Kick-Ass movies, has already been acting for a decade, but unlike Jo-Ann, she's kept her career scandal-free. Speaking to a small group of journalists at the Cannes press day for Clouds of Sils Maria, which will be released in the U.S. on Dec. 1, she credited her steadiness to her close family and her love of her work.
"If I wanted to go crazy, I would be doing it right now," she said, pointing out that a lot of past young actors were well on their way into partying by her age. "For me, I've never had the need to want to do that. If I could create a world where I just did my job, where I could just do that and not have to worry about promotion or parties or red carpets or anything... that would be great. Sadly, it doesn't work that way."
Moretz has already seen plenty of the rapacious side of celebrity, the paparazzi, and the feeling from some fans that her life is public property. "They'll be like, You have to give me a photo. I buy a ticket to your movie. I, in a sense, own you. If I don't buy a ticket to your movie, you're done — so you have to take a photo with me. There's a lot of entitlement, especially nowadays, in Hollywood, because they think they know everything about you. They think that because you have an Instagram, they can go break into your house. You let us in! I've seen your house on your video!"
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