Martin Scorsese: This 14-year-old actor cheated to get a role!

Are you cheating on Martin Scorsese? Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and Casino Director? The one who recently called for a revolt against superhero movies? Who could do that? Probably no one. And yet, a very young Chloe Moretz dared, a few years ago, to be able to shoot under the guidance of a famous film director!

For which film did Chloe Moretz, then just 14, allow herself to tell a big lie to the great Martin Scorsese? For Hugo Cabret, released in cinemas at the end of 2011, the story of an orphan (played by a very young Asa Butterfield years before her sex education) who lives in a train station and who will be in the company of Isabelle (Moretz). They try to decipher the secrets of his past.

“Yes, it’s true, I cheated on Martin Scorsese”Confirmed by Chloë Moretz on the AlloCiné mic a few years ago. “I told him I was English, I think I came from the Cotswolds. Or Cambridge, something like that. And he believed me. He knew I was American, so he believed me.”

In Interview given to the MirrorChloe Moretz was more specific about this big Hollywood lie. “Martin took us to New York with Asa Butterfield to test it and I was speaking in a British accent the whole time”– says the woman who recently voiced the character of the Netflix animated film, Nimona. “During filming, I lived in London for five months He looks at the ass, so I knew the rhythm of the accent. (…) I stayed in British mode until the end of the audition”.

Chloe Moretz concludes again for The Mirror: “One day when I thanked Martin, he said, ‘Wait, wasn’t that an American accent I just heard?’ I said, ‘Maybe.'” It worked out because I got the part. Sometimes you have to do everything you can to get a role.”

Martin Scorsese, one of whose favorite films is almost impossible to watch, returns this Wednesday with Killers of the Flower Moon, a feature starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone that opened at Cannes last year. Film Festival.

Chloe Moretz’s FunFacts (with a Scorsese lie in it!):