The transition from child star to busy Hollywood actress was smooth for Chloë Grace Moretz. As a 12-year-old, she starred in the violent superhero comedy Kick-Ass. She is now 26 years old and has a number of film and series roles under her belt. One of her biggest parts is still Isabelle in the 3D adventure Hugo Cabret.
However, Moretz would never have landed the role without giving director legend Martin Scorsese a huge shit.
Why Chloë Grace Moretz had to lie to Martin Scorsese
Hugo Cabret is set in a Paris train station in the early 1930s. The orphan boy Hugo (Asa Butterfield) lives in the many corners of the mysterious building. His father (Jude Law) died tragically, leaving him a mechanical clockwork doll. But the key to the heart-shaped lock is missing. Together with his new girlfriend Isabelle (Moretz), Hugo wants to solve the mystery.
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Asa Butterfield and Chloe Grace Moretz
The role of the smart and confident girl suited Chloë Grace Moretz. The problem: the figure is British. And Moretz American. There Scorsese insisted on a British actress and Moretz really wanted the role, there was only one way out.
Chloë Grace Moretz invented a new identity for her role in Hugo Cabret
The actress was doing what she does best: acting. She fooled Martin Scorsese in real life: “I went to the audition and pretended to be from England”, She cites Screen Rant, among others .
And that’s not all: She laid out a whole British identity. Moretz said her parents were “Horse Breeders and That We Lived in the Cotswolds”a region in southern England. “I told a huge lie and got the part.” Chloë Grace Moretz was still relatively unknown at the time, so the fib wasn’t immediately apparent. It wasn’t until a month later, in the middle of the production of Hugo Cabret, that director Scorsese figured it out.
He said, ‘Wait, do you speak with an American accent?’
The farce apparently did not cause further trouble because Moretz embodied her character convincingly. The film was released in the cinemas in winter 2012, won over critics and got involved in the upcoming Oscars. Moretz deserved a nomination for her role as “British on the Hugo Cabret set.”
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