- Do you sometimes miss a normal teenage life?

I do have a normal teenage life. There’s so much drama in school, my friends say they’d rather be home schooled just because there’s so much drama. I have a pretty awesome teenage life.

I get to hang out with my friends and then I get to go to London. My friends haven’t even been to London.

So they think its cool having a friend that lives in London, not even doing this. They think of me as Chloe on her own, not as an actress.

- Matthew compared you to Natalie Portman and Jodie Foster. What do you think about that?

Well Natalie Portman and Jodie Foster are my idols and I look to them as if they were...I want my career to be just like them. They were able to go to college, they were able to entertain, yet they were able to be smart.

Education comes first in our family for sure. I mean my mom always says that she would take me out of this business if I ever get ahead of myself.

I have four other brothers too, so I think if I ever did do anything like that they would kill me.

- Are you into all the Vampire Diaries and Twilight?

Twilight’s an amazing movie. And Let Me In shows a different side of vampires, a less glamorous, less romantic side of vampires. It shows that being a vampire is a burden; it’s something that she, Abby, has to carry with herself.

It’s not cool to be a vampire. It’s not something that’s beautiful and romantic, it’s something that’s dark and deep and it’s a demon inside of her basically. The whole vampire genre stuff is cool.

One of my favourite movies is Interview with the Vampire and for Hit Girl I borrowed a little bit of Kirsten Dunst from Interview with the Vampire. I collaborated a bunch of different characters in it.

- What’s your take on women in action movies and superhero movies? One of the reasons I loved Kick-Ass was your character. So many women characters are pushed to the sidelines and only play the love interest...

When I read the script, besides thinking it’s an amazing role I knew that it was a role that a little girl could do that would stand up for women.

Because women rarely ever play the leading women, rarely ever are able to do this and be not criticised for it. So that’s why I really wanted to do it and be the sword-wielding, awesome leading girl woman empowerment character. That definitely interested me.

- And Angelina Jolie is your hero?

She’s definitely pretty amazing.

- What did you think of your costume and what was the first day that you wore it?

The first day I tried on the costume it was pretty amazing but I didn’t have a wig. Then I just had little pig tails like Mindy had and so Matthew and I and a bunch of people came up with the idea of putting a wig on me because it was either pig tails or a wig.

And so we decided that it’d be kind of cool to use a wig. We had about 10 or 20 wigs laid out on a character and I was going around trying them on.

There was a blue one, a white one, a bright blue one, a green one and a yellow one but the one I really liked was the purple.

If you look at it, it gives it a sense of uniqueness because a lot of people have a bunch of different type colours in their suit.

But Hit Girl is basically all purple except for a little-bitty pink belt and a little bit of black. That’s why I like Hit Girl, she’s basically a girly-girl.

- There’s kind of a gothic feel to it too...

Yeah, kind of. She’s a little girl playing dress up practically. Playing guns with her is basically like playing dolls.

- Aaron said earlier that you had to go home and practice with the knives...

I did.

- Was that hard to master because that looked quite amazing?

Oh thank you. It’s actually not that hard, you just do this and go back and forth and it looks kind of awesome.

- It’s a real knife?

Well I was training with a practice knife which is basically just a big piece of metal with two little sides and it has holes in it. That’s what I practiced with every day and I brought it home with me.

But when I was on set it was a real knife that was dulled down so I couldn’t have hurt myself with it at all.

- Did you meet Nic Cage before the film to work on your bond?

We only met about once before we started filming. When I first met him I was so nervous, you know, it’s Nicolas Cage! Meeting him is nerve wracking, much less working opposite him.

Actually our first day shooting was the scene where I get shot at the beginning that’s in a sewer.

That was the first time we got to shoot and that was the first day of the whole shoot. So it was like, ‘hi nice to meet you’. Pffftttt! [makes the sound of a gunshot] But that was actually pretty cool, it was a good bonding moment.

- What’s it like to watch yourself get thrown all over the room?

It brings back a lot of memories from when we were shooting it; because it was hard for Mark doing it too. Mark Strong has two kids, he has a wife and he’s a family man he’s literally like a gigantic teddy bear.

Matthew asked him to do a bunch of stuff like kicking me and he was like, ‘no! I can only do this’.

It was fun but that was the only moment in the film where I had to say, ‘can I just walk outside for a moment?’

Because you get yourself in the character of being Mindy and it’s so hard. But it was a lot of fun to shoot.

In Let Me In there’s a scene where I’m getting chased and I’m screaming, ‘mummy help me, mummy help me, mummy help me!’ And I’m crying and then they call cut and I start laughing.

And people think I’m practically crazy because I’m going from crying to laughing like that, but that’s how much I love it.

I’m such an actor that I can fool my dad - I’m like, ‘daddy, can you please buy me this?’ Acting comes in handy sometimes.

- Are you ready to do a sequel if there is one?

If there is one I would love to play Hit Girl again. Definitely.

- And you’ll fight anyone else up for it?

Oh my. Maybe Mindy might but I wouldn’t. I’m always up for fighting for a role, but you know that’s different.

Kick Ass is released in DVD 6th September.

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