"You'll get a thousand noes and one yes," she says of auditioning. "There's a couple parts that I really wanted badly that I didn't get. But I tell myself that when a door shuts, another bigger, more beautiful door opens....People will say you have limits, but you have to brush it off," says Moretz. "They say you're not good, or you're too good. They say you're too scripted, you're too pretty, you're too young, you're too tall. But you get that one that says you're perfect, and you book it."
"A thousand noes and one yes." What a load of arse.
The fallacy that acting is about constant rejection is, well, just that, a fallacy. It's about a getting an audition in the first place! If we were reading for great parts that constantly, it'd be fantastic!!
I'm with Mark on this one. Just getting into the auditioning room in the first place is the important thing. As far as I can see , that actress is already where we all want to be i.e regularly reading for great roles.
"But two years ago, her mother brought her a screenplay and said, "Chloë, it's what you've been wanting." Moretz had recently seen "Wanted" and longed for an action role in the vein of Angelina Jolie's Fox. The script was "Kick-Ass," and Moretz instantly fell in love with the characters. "I read the script and said, 'I have to be Hit Girl,' " she recalls. "It was an amazing character and so different from what any other kid has done, aside from my idols: Natalie Portman in 'The Professional' and Jodie Foster in 'Taxi Driver.' "
Moretz put herself on tape for "Kick-Ass" co-writer and director Matthew Vaughn, then tried not to think about it too much."
Her mum brought the script home, and she just "put herself on tape for Matthew Vaughn". I'd love to just "put myself on tape" for a million things!
You can put yourself on tape for some studio movies via actorcast and the castit system.
But can you record a high quality audition with a camera and have someone reading for you and then upload it? And are you ready to fly to LA at short notice if they want to see you after reviewing your tape?
We have more choices than we think. Being seen may not be easy, but there are ways and who said the acting life was going to be easy anyway ;-)
Hmmmm...I am not quite sure where the arguments over this are emanating from. What we have is the story of a young girl (clearly a pretty talented one - I won't deny that) from a wealthy family based in LA in which there is at least one older actor (namely, her brother), who was picked up by what I would assume is a first class agent at the age of 7 or thereabouts, and went on to book a number of guest slots on prime time television over several years. I suspect that being talented and 7, plus having a significant agent backing you, whilst being able to be helpfully coached by your older brother, ensured that she managed to win a fair number of roles in a market that would otherwise have proved hideously competitive.
Having established a profile for about six years within the industry, the fact that she can read for significant scripts on request is not that surprising, I'd say.
I don't actually deny that she must have worked hard for it, and that, in a sense, all actors face the same problems at all levels within the industry to some extent. And if, to me, some of her comments come across a typically mawkish and banal, I suspect that is only because she has already become well trained in spouting the kind of platitudes that Hollywood wants to hear from her. Read what Nicholas Cage had to say about *her*, and you realise that this tendency only grows worse with age.
None of this denys the excellence of her actual acting which is very fine in 'Kick Ass' in my opinion.
Still, other than reminding us all to keep plugging away, I have to agree with some of the nay sayers here - these platitudes are so much easier to spout when you have been brought up wealthy and precocious in the hub of the US acting industry, and have been scoring significant parts since the age of 7!
What I love about you is the fact that you don't allow yourself to get stuck in apathy. You push and do whatever you can. You deserve every single bit of success you are getting now. I'm so proud of you! Xx
Thanks Blake! :-)
I do not disagree with anyone here, it's just that there's nothing we can do about the fact that we weren't born in a wealthy entertainment family; but we can focus of the other ways to get were we want to be. No matter how big the obstacles seem to be, there are always ways around them. We set our own goals and we will only go as far as we allow ourselves to go.
Not taking anything from Moretz, she is a clearly a hugely talented individual. If you have advantages in this business, use them! We all would.
I'm 100% on the same page with persistence and personal strength being keys to an actors' make-up, and I agree that we have more choices than we perhaps see at first glance; HOWEVER, there is a huuuge difference between putting yourself on tape for an open call on a casting website, and putting yourself on tape for a director by request.
If who you know is You Know Who, your career certainly won't suffer.
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