“My answer was unabashedly, ‘Yes!’ I do want to be that girl. She says that people would repeatedly ask, “Do you really want to be that girl?” “That started from a young age, and it was definitely difficult especially in the beginning with the amount of push back I saw within the industry and those I had come in contact with or had the potential to work with.” “It has always been a concerted effort for me in my career to make sure that I use my voice and my platform to express how I feel on certain issues,” Moretz says. In 2016, she supported Hillary Clinton for president, speaking at the Democratic National Convention that summer urging younger people to get out the vote. In 2014, Time magazine named her one of the 25 Most Influential Teens of the year. Somewhere along the line, Moretz herself had not only become an LGBTQ+ ally, but also a staunch feminist and a bright, refreshing political voice. With Desiree Akhavan adapting and directing the story, I knew it was going to be handled in the perfect manner.” It felt so important to be able to portray Cameron. It shows how incredibly detrimental conversion therapy is to both the heart and mind. “It highlights the miseducation of those who are the practitioners and, the lack of understanding and acceptance they have for queer youth. “ The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a project that of course is incredibly queer, itself being about the struggles of Christian conversion therapy,” Moretz says. Moretz also talked extensively about gay conversion therapy and about how both of her brothers tried to “pray the gay away” while growing up in a small, largely Baptist town in Georgia. While staring as a kid sent to anti-gay conversion therapy in Desiree Akhavan’s 2018 film, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Moretz proved herself a deft LGBTQ+ ally, at the least, talking about her gay brothers to whom she’s extremely close - one served as her business manager, the other her acting coach. Where I wholeheartedly know there’s no other project I could imagine doing at that moment.” ![]() I just listen to my heart by trying to follow the projects that light me up in a way that others haven’t. ![]() “Predominantly, it has been a subconscious decision. “I try to follow my heart and listen to where I am currently and not guess too far in front of myself,” Moretz admits. So far, her acting and producing choices sometimes seem mercurial but also like calculated prescient choices. While filming a seven-episode arc in the very adult series Dirty Sexy Money, she also voiced Darby in 87 episodes of My Friends Tigger & Pooh. Her roles are in the dozens now, often concurrent and opposite types of projects too. ![]() “I never want to be pigeonholed into one specific genre, and I think for me, I want to keep myself guessing.” “ Let Me In is one of my favorite projects I had the opportunity to work on,” Moretz says. After Kick Ass came Hugo and then her amazing performance in the haunting remake, Let Me In (the remake of a Swedish film is ostensibly about vampires but it has strong allegories to chosen family and queer existentialism, too). She is one of the best modern actors who began as a child star (she was 6 years old when she started acting) and has only gotten better as the years have gone by. ![]() Now 24, Moretz has been in more than 60 movies or television shows, from her earliest on The Guardian and Amityville Horror to her most recent sci-fi thriller Mother/Android, which premiers on Hulu on December 17. And since they’ve I’ve been wanting to turn the story of Moretz, in the public social sphere, from one of “LGBTQ+ ally” to what she really is, which seems to be “LGBTQ-identified.” She is one of us. Then she dated a woman, in public, without making any statements about what it meant. And no doubt since she starred in Kick Ass when she was 12 years old, Moretz has had those “fans” as well but even more so those of us truly inspired by her talent.īut I am a queer fan, one who has noticed that not-so-quietly, Moretz has become of the staunchest LGBTQ+ supporters in Hollywood. And trust me, I’m not one of those pervs with their gross countdown clocks waiting to see when a female celebrity is “legal” - I watched those “fans” bedeviled a lot of female performers in the past, including Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Natalie Portman, and Britney Spears. I have been waiting over a decade to hear Chloë Grace Moretz say the phrase, “I am queer.” I’m not trying to out her.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |