Movie star and fashion icon… so what does Chloe Grace Moretz see in Brooklyn?
Most teenage girls would be a little overawed by the idea but Kick Ass teen actress if out of schoolboy star’s league
MOST teenage girls would be a little overawed by the idea of becoming Brooklyn Beckham’s girlfriend.
But when it comes to Chloe Grace Moretz it is David and Victoria who are more likely to feel like the underachievers — let alone their 17-year-old son.
For the 19-year-old starlet, who only this week confirmed she is dating Brooklyn, has already racked up a string of acclaimed film roles, been hailed a fashion icon and named one of the 25 most influential teenagers in the world by Time magazine.
At her age, David was still plugging away with Man United’s youth side and Victoria was only just ripping out an advert in The Stage newspaper for a group called the Spice Girls.
Chloe posed on the red carpet in Los Angeles with Brooklyn on Monday at the premiere of her latest release, Bad Neighbours 2, and admitted to a US chat show last week: “Yes, we’re in a relationship.”
Sources say they met through friends in LA, have been on and off for two years but now decided to make things “official”.
And she had nothing but praise for Posh and Becks saying: “He’s a great dad, she’s a great mother. They made a pretty son.”
“Pretty” as Brooklyn may be, Chloe’s soaring accomplishments have left some wondering if he might just be punching above his weight with her.
Brooklyn once dreamed of following in his dad’s footballing footsteps, but last year was dropped from the Arsenal academy.
More recently he’s dabbled with photography, posting Twitter snaps with captions such as “red flowers, white background”.
Chloe, meanwhile, has already been hired by a string of top directors including Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton and Matthew Vaughn and next year will begin filming as Ariel in The Little Mermaid.
While Brooklyn is studying for his A levels and lives with mum and dad at their £31.5 million pad in Holland Park, London, along with brothers Romeo, 13, Cruz, 11 and sister Harper, four, Chloe has already bought her family a luxury, gated home in Los Angeles.
Her debut TV role came aged seven in US drama The Guardian, and soon she had landed parts in major shows Stateside including Desperate Housewives.
Her breakthrough was playing murderous vigilante Hit-Girl in notoriously violent 2010 film Kick-Ass. In one scene, her 11-year-old character used the c-word before gunning down a room of drug dealers.
She was philosophical about the gore at the time, telling The Sun: “It’s a movie and it’s fake and I’ve known that since I was a kid. That’s why I was allowed to do it.”
Soon after, she played a 12-year-old vampire in the macabre Let Me In and appeared in gruesome movie Texas Killing Fields.
Despite her tender age, Chloe has not shied away from risky career choices.
In 2011 she appeared in Hick, as a 13-year-old runaway who falls prey to Eddie Redmayne’s character, an S&M-loving paedophile cowboy.
The film went largely unnoticed, and wasn’t even released in the UK, due to its excessively dark themes of rape, child abuse and violence.
She also starred in a remake of horror classic Carrie and in gothic Tim Burton vampire flick Dark Shadows.
Reportedly worth more than £8million now, she is unafraid of throwing herself into politics and social causes, too.
Recently she has been out speaking up for Hillary Clinton in political meetings, highlighting how she was won over by the Democrat’s plans for student finance reforms.
She said: “Two young women talked to me today about how they are afraid to vote for Hillary because they don’t want to be seen as strict feminists, because they’re afraid men might look at them differently as a counterpart.
“Don’t be afraid to vote for Hillary just because she’s a woman. Vote for Hillary for the things she stands for.”
Two of Chloe’s four elder brothers — Trevor, 29, now her acting coach, and Colin, 27 — are gay and she has been vocal on LGBT rights.
Along with her other siblings, Brandon, 34, now her business manager, and Ethan, 24, she has even defended them in person when necessary.
Recounting an incident in a restaurant, she said: “These guys go, ‘Ugh, who let the faggots in here? I was like, ‘what did you say?’ My two straight brothers bucked up too.
“I was like ‘Do you want to say it again?’ They were like; ‘No, it’s all good.’ I’m the type of person who will start swinging if you offend my family.”
By contrast, Brooklyn’s musings on Twitter rarely extend beyond praising his mother’s fashion achievements or making pithy observations like: “Rainy day in London.”
Chloe clearly takes her self-proclaimed feminist credentials seriously and has said she has turned down roles she felt were needlessly sexual.
In March she chided Kim Kardashian for posting a naked selfie, tweeting: “I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than just our bodies.”
There is also no doubt Chloe could give Victoria a run for her money in the fashion stakes, having graced fashion week front rows and the covers of top magazines including Vogue.
While Brooklyn has modelled for Burberry, Chloe has fronted campaigns for US teen clothing store Aéropostale and bag brand Coach.
In 2012 designer Max Mara hailed her Face of the Future and in 2013 she was named Next Future Icon by fashion magazine Elle.
Such glamour is all a far-cry from her strict Christian upbringing in the small town of Cartersville, Georgia in America’s Deep South where her mother Terri, 59, was a nurse and her dad McCoy, 59, a plastic surgeon.
Chloe discovered acting after brother Trevor was accepted at a performing arts school in New York and she used to help him practise lines.
She said: “It just made me happy and then when I was 11, I looked at my mom, and I was like, ‘Wait, can I make this something I can do for the rest of my life?’ She was like, ‘Yeah, sure.’”
After attending auditions and taking classes, it soon became clear Chloe was the true acting star in the family, prompting a move to Los Angeles.
But when she was 12, her dad walked out leaving Teri to raise her five children as a single parent.
Chloe said: “It was a pretty bad experience. My brothers bumped up into the roles of fathers and kept me in a bubble where I could live in a world that wasn’t jaded and ruined.
“I don’t think I will ever truly find a way to forgive.
“It’s hard to trust people. And it definitely affected me at a young age in terms of accepting people into my life on a personal level. But I’ve overcome that in the past few years.
“You don’t realise why you’re acting a certain way, and then you start to piece it together, and you realise you’ve got a slight case of PTSD.”
And despite all she has been through, Chloe remains optimistic that, whatever their differences and the distance between her and Brooklyn, she can make their burgeoning relationship a success.
She has said: “If you’re both in the same mindset that you guys want to be together and you want to make it work, you can make it work. It’s just dedication and knowing that there might be some miscommunication and lack of communication sometimes.”
David and Victoria must be hoping Chloe’s wisdom and ambition rubs off on their eldest son — and that he isn’t too awestruck by her astonishing talent.