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and her love for her brother. She perseveres,
and that’s the beauty of humanity, which
is something that she constantly fights to
preserve in the movie.
“My family is the biggest thing in my
entire life,” she continues. “We’ve been a
unit, always. That was one of the things I
gravitated towards when I read the book.
This isn’t a love story, a love
triangle, or a story about
whether or not she
wants to kiss that guy or
the other guy.
T he actress stars in the big-screen
adaptation of Rick Yancey’s bestselling
novel The 5 th Wave, taking the lead
role of 16-year-old Cassie, who is on the run,
desperately trying to save her younger brother
in a devastated world. The film might just offer
Moretz her most relatable role to date.
“I often play the extraordinary teenager who
is facing fantasy, so it is nice to play a character
closer to home, someone who has some real
human aspects to them,” says Moretz, 18,
whose career has taken in a number of atypical
characters in films as diverse as Kick-Ass, Dark
Shadows, Let Me In, Carrie and The Equalizer.
“Cassie is a very typical, ordinary girl,
nothing too special,” the actress adds. “She
doesn’t excel at school and doesn’t excel in
sports. She doesn’t have the hot boyfriend. She
is a typical young girl, except when you put
her in these extraordinary circumstances she
becomes one of the strongest women I’ve ever
portrayed in a film.”
Moretz’s character is trying to survive in a
world that has been decimated by four earth-
shattering events – including tidal waves to
pestilence – unleashed upon the earth by
extraterrestrial invaders. In the midst
of the wreckage, as one of earth’s
last survivors, Cassie must fight
to save herself, and her brother,
teaming up with a young man who
may become her final hope, if she
can learn to trust him.
“Cassie doesn’t back down for
anything if it comes between her
After building a career playing curious characters, Chloë Grace Moretz
is taking on possibly her biggest challenge yet – playing an ordinary girl
trying to survive in truly extraordinary circumstances in THE 5TH WAVE.
“This is a love story betwee
a brother and a sister who are fighting for each
other to live, to survive, to exist. That’s at the
basis of this sci-fi story; it’s a true human love
story between members of a family.”
The story is also about trust. “Cassie is really
affected by the fact that she can’t really be sure
who she can trust. Everyone she meets could
be a potential threat. She would like to trust
people but she soon learns that she is always
betrayed or let down in some way. As a result,
she learns that the only person she can trust is
herself.”
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INTERSTELLAR
Anne Hathaway and Matthew
McConaughey discover the surf’s
always up on this waterworld in
a distant galaxy.
SHOCKWAVES
Nazi zombies wearing shades
emerge from the surf to stalk
a group of castaways on a
mysterious island.
THE ABYSS
When the superpowers threaten
war, underwater aliens threaten to
drop tidal waves on coastal cities
if we can't all live in peace.
DEEP IMPACT
When an asteroid collides with
Earth, you can either duck and
cover or wait on the beach and
accept the inevitable.
THE DAY AFTERTOMORROW
Just about every film from master
of disaster Roland Emmerich
features a giant wave, not to
mention a lot of flag-waving.
In
love WARAND
FIVE OTHER WAVES
It's nice to play a
character closer to home...
who has some real human
aspects to them