We always knew Chloe Grace Moretz had some serious gall - her performance as Hit-Girl in Kickass is legendary - but having the guts to trick Martin Scorsese into giving you a role is on a whole other level of badass.
And that’s exactly what Moretz did back in 2011, at the tender age of 14 no less.
Moretz made the reveal earlier this week when promoting The Peripheral, the cerebral new sci-fi show she stars in that hails from the people behind WestWorld.
Taking part in WIRED's Autocomplete Interview, in which celebs answer the internet’s most-searched questions about themselves, Moretz explained that she was desperate to land a role in Scorsese’s 2011 hit Hugo, but knew he was looking to hire a British actor to play the part.
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So Moretz - who was born and raised in the States - feigned an British accent throughout the audition process, even making up a fictional backstory incase Scorsese asked any questions about her upbringing.
Moretz explained: “Funny enough I did fool Martin Scorsese into thinking that I was [British].
“I had auditioned for a movie called Hugo Cabret and he was only gonna hire British girl, and I was like, ‘Yeah, I can do that’.
“So I went into the audition and I fully pretended to be from England, and that my parents were horse breeders, and that we lived in the Cotswolds.”
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The star continued: “I had a whole, told big lie, a huge lie, and then I booked the part. And it was like a month into production that he was like, ‘Wait, are you just doing an American accent?’ And I was like, ‘No’.”
Mortez added: “I'm like American, like my accent is southern naturally if I don't iron it out. I guess maybe I am British. I don't know. It depends if I believe my own lie.”
Moretz stars as Flynne Fisher in The Peripheral, the synopsis for which reads: “The Peripheral centres on Flynne Fisher, a woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of tomorrow's America.
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“Flynne is smart, ambitious, and doomed. She has no future. Until the future comes calling for her. The Peripheral is master storyteller William Gibson’s dazzling, hallucinatory glimpse into the fate of mankind — and what lies beyond.”
So far, the show has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 73 percent - so it looks like it's definitely worth a watch!
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