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These days, Chloë Grace Moretz has an extensive resume of television and film roles, but she has still had to prove herself. In a November 29th podcast episode of “Reign with Josh Smith,” Moretz recalled the power struggle she faced as a young female actor. “It was always odd from my first leading role when I was 14 in ‘Carrie.’ It was always really interesting to see who would be really unhappy with a young woman,” she shared.
The actor explained that she had been working for almost a decade at that point, but still would get “pushback” when she tried to voice her opinions. “The majority of it was older men for sure who would infantilize me. If I had real things to bring to the table, a lot of the time it would get shot down.” Moretz revealed that she learned how to navigate around the power struggle by appearing “very sweet and very kind of back-footed” and tricked the older men into thinking her ideas were theirs. “[Having] to advocate to an older man on behalf of your 14, 15, 16-year old self is a really, really crazy kind of mindf***,” she said.
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Despite all the naysayers, Moretz is continuing to thrive in her acting career. As of this writing, she’s currently appearing in the sci-fi series “The Peripheral.” The actor told Hunger, “I’ve always used acting as a form of therapy. So being able to use that in this project was wonderful and really healing.”
