STACK #138 Apr 2016

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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 5 TH WAVE. In love WAR AND

T he actress stars in the big-screen 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 adaptation of Rick Yancey’s bestselling novel The 5 th Wave , taking the lead

It's nice to play a character closer to home... who has some real human aspects to them

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• The 5 th Wave is out April 21

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.

“This is a love story between 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.”

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

FIVE OTHER WAVES

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.

DEEP IMPACT When an asteroid collides with Earth, you can either duck and cover or wait on the beach and accept the inevitable.

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.

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.

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