Sweetness Staked

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I don't know how I feel about the words coming out of Chloe Moretz's mouth in this chat between her and MTV about her role of vampire girl Abby in the Let the Right One In remake (via):

"It's about a boy who lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico," she explains. "Growing up, not many people like him, he's not popular. He's wimpy, kind of an outcast. Then this girl moves in, she's totally different. She doesn't wear shoes, wears raggedy clothes — it's sort of like "Romeo and Juliet" with vampires. She can't be with him, because she's a vampire. But they fall in love; it's a really sweet coming-of-age story between a little boy and a little girl."

To properly portray the role, Moretz really got into the mindset of a vampire that's cursed to be forever immortalized in a 12 year old body. "It's a very sad and heavy burden to have; it's not easy to live," she says. "You need blood to live, and that's not an easy thing to go through. [My character, Abby] has to kill for it. She's a very sweet, loving person. And that's why I relate to the character — she's a beast, it's a demon inside of her and she can't stop it from coming out ... when I turn into a vampire, it's terrifying."

This is what happens when I pay too much attention to this shit beforehand. If I'm gonna maintain my optimistic outlook on this movie that I expressed yesterday maybe I should just stop reading what's being said beforehand (yeah that'll happen). I mean... okay. The girl's just shy of turning 13, so maybe she's just not entirely aware of the complexities of the relationship between the boy and the girl in the story. And the filmmakers are keeping their directions simple for her...? Either that or the filmmakers themselves don't get that this story isn't a "sweet" "love" story at all, but I'm gonna choose to believe that they're just keeping it simple for the girl. She can play it that way and the director can make it clear it isn't that way, really, with other stuff going on. Hopefully. Hrm.
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