Chloë Grace Moretz desperately wanted the role in an adventure film directed by Martin Scorsese. The price she paid was a huge lie, which the actress kept up for a remarkably long time.
The transition from child star to busy Hollywood actress was a smooth one for Chloë Grace Moretz. As a 12-year-old, she starred in the brutal superhero comedy Kick-Ass. She is now 26 years old and has several film and series roles under her belt. One of her still biggest parts: Isabelle in the 3D adventure Hugo Cabret.
However, Moretz would never have gotten the role without making a huge fuss over legendary director Martin Scorsese.
Why Chloë Grace Moretz had to lie to Martin Scorsese
Hugo Cabret is set in a Paris train station in the early 1930s. Orphan boy Hugo (Asa Butterfield) lives in the many nooks and crannies of the mysterious building. His father (Jude Law) died tragically, leaving him a mechanical wind-up doll. But the key to the heart-shaped lock is missing. Together with his new friend Isabelle (Moretz), Hugo wants to solve the mystery.
Asa Butterfield and Chloë Grace Moretz
The role of the smart and confident girl suited Chloë Grace Moretz. The problem: the character is British. And Moretz is American. Since Scorsese insisted on a British actress and Moretz desperately wanted the role, there was only one way out.
Chloë Grace Moretz invented a new identity for her role in Hugo Cabret
The actress did what she does best: act. She led Martin Scorsese around by the nose in real life: “I went to the audition pretending to be from England,” she quotes Screen Rant .
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And that’s not all: she laid out an entire British identity for herself. Moretz told us her parents were “horse breeders and that we lived in the Cotswolds,” a region in southern England. “I told a huge lie and grabbed the part.” Chloë Grace Moretz was still rather unknown at the time, which is why the fib didn’t immediately catch her eye. Only after a month, in the middle of the production of Hugo Cabret, did director Scorsese find out.
