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Chloe Grace Moretz - Film
By Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist
Chloe Grace Moretz
Gives A Rebirth To
Carrie!
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Courtesy of MGM/Screen Gems
In 1974, an unknown book author name
Stephen King had his first book published titled “Carrie.” It was a
supernatural horror thriller about a shy teen girl named Carrie White who just
didn’t fit in with the crowd at school. She had a super religious, over
protective mother who sheltered her from the full-of-sin outside world. “Carrie”
became King’s first best seller and two years later in 1976, it was made into a
movie starring Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, John Travolta, Nancy Allen, William
Katt, Betty Buckley and Piper Laure as Carrie’s mother. Spacek and Laurie
received Oscar® nominations for their roles. Needless to say, the original
“Carrie” has become a horror classic and like all classic’s a re-make was
inevitable. Now we fast forward to 2013 and a new “Carrie” has been made with
Chloe Grace Moretz as Carrie and Julianne Moore as her psycho, over religious
mom Margaret.
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| (R) Carrie (Moretz) being made to pray by (L) mom Margaret (Moore) |
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| Carrie (Moretz) humbly walks the halls |
As in the original, Carrie doesn’t fit in
at school and is an odd ball. As a result she is bullied and ostracized way
beyond reasonable limits. This all leads up to the prom where one last mean
thing is done and she leashes out with the full fury and wrath of her
telekinetic powers. The central theme of this movie is the subject of bullying
witch was relevant when the original movie was made and is still as relevant if
not more today.
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| Carrie walks away from Sue (Gabrielle Wilde) |
Has Moretz encountered any real life experience with bullying?
She elaborates, “I definitely have. I think anyone that’s different or lives a
different type of lifestyle; I’ve seen it with my brothers and what they have
gone through. I’ve dealt with it being an actor and take an understanding. You
think that’s going to be a great thing because you want to be their friend you
know. But no, you have people who don’t understand it (her celeb status) and
are confused by it and are scared of it for some reason and they’re jealous of
it. I think that everyone in their life has dealt with something like that. I
think it would be silly to say that they haven’t you know? They’re always going
to kick you.”
Playing the character of Carrie was very
emotionally draining for Moretz as she had to run the gauntlet of feelings from
fear, anger to uncertainty especially during the shower scene when she
experiences her first menstrual cycle and doesn’t understand what is happening
to her body. She thinks she’s dying and cries out to the other girls in the
shower and they laugh at her. Moretz
explains, “I mean the whole movie was terrifying. What was crazy about that
scene was they way it was written and the way it was her idea and her thoughts
on how she literally thought she was dying. Its terrifying because no one knows
the feeling of I’m about to die because usually when you are that close to
death you die.”
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| Shower Time |
Moretz describes that shower scene set
saying “We had all of the smoke on the set. No one could breath, we were all
coughing and it was really a horrible atmosphere to be in. I felt so
uncomfortable, so cold and dirty from the ground, it was all wet and nasty but
it worked so well and I was able to live through that.”
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| Carrie in her prom dress |
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| Carrie arrives at prom with Tommy (Ansel Elgort) |
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| The prom assault with the bucket of pig's blood being dumped on her was the last draw and Carrie unleashed a deadly flurry of her telekinetic powers on them. |
Continuing with the
subject of the multitude of emotions that Mortez had to deal with in this film,
she elaborates, “Understanding emotions at 15 years old, I had been through a
lot in my life. But I dealt with a lot of emotions that I hadn’t actually dealt
with. I put them away. I had put them in a little box and said I’m OK. She (the
film’s director), brought all of those emotions out unlocking my Pandora’s Box
of emotions. Honestly, by the end of the movie, I became such an adult because
I dealt with every vulnerability I had ever had in such an up front manner.”
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| Religious psycho mom with knife ready to attack |
Moretz gives a vivid example describing the
scene with her mom attacking her; “We shot the death scene with Julianne for
five days so I was crying for five days bleeding on the floor. By the fifth day
my cheeks were like chafed from all the tears. You know it’s hard. My mom had
to walk off set because she couldn’t listen to it anymore. Then two months
later we came back and I shot more of the death for two days and my mom had to
walk off set again!”
As a special note; Moretz is part of Rych
McCain’s media family having made my Hollywood’s Top Ten Talented Youth List in
2011 and will be on it a second time in 2013 at the end of this year. Congrats
and you go Chloe!
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