EXCLUSIVE: Chloe Grace-Moretz Talks Tim Burton and "Dark Shadows"

                                                 "Kick Ass' Hit Girl" looks so grown up! Chloe Grace-Moretz is a 14 Year-old dynamo!!!


What was the experience of working with Tim Burton like, for Dark Shadows? Did working with him live up to the dream of wanting to work with him?

MORETZ: Oh, yeah, definitely! Tim Burton has always been one of my dream directors to work with. When I got a call and they said, “Tim Burton wants you to be in his movie,” I was like, “Woah! Excuse me?!” It was a lot to take in. It was very, very fun. My mom and my brother didn’t even tell me. They kept it from me until everything was done and secure. It was a gigantic surprise to me. Working with him really did live up to all of my expectations, and actually went beyond everything I expected him to be. He was really one of the nicest and most normal guys I’ve ever met, but he has this brain. You get where everything comes from because his brain is just so creative.

                                                       Johnny Depp as Barnabus Collins w/ Director Tim Burton in "Dark Shadows"

My brother, Trevor, is my acting coach and we came up with a lot of weird stuff. We’re really weird, and Tim Burton’s movies are mostly our favorite movies out there. We were like, “You know what? We’re just going to come up with a bunch of ideas for the character and see if he likes them.” So, I went to Tim with all these ideas and things to do, and he literally was just like, “Oh, my god, that sounds perfect! I love that you just came to me with all of those ideas. You’re not afraid to just tell me.” I was like, “Yay, Tim Burton likes me!” It was really special. A lot of directors would have been like, “Oh, that’s a cool idea, but no.” For him to just be like, “Oh, yeah, totally! Let’s just do however many takes and just go with it.” It was amazing. Marty [Scorsese] did the same thing [on Hugo]. He welcomed it in with open arms and let me do what I needed to do to get it out.

As a young actress, what was it like to find yourself doing scenes with Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer? Do you have those moments where you have to pinch yourself?

MORETZ: Oh, yeah! The first day I came on set, it was a dinner or breakfast scene with Helena [Bonham Carter], Johnny and Michelle, and literally the whole cast, sitting at this gigantic dinner table, and the scene was us, eating. For me to walk in and sit at this table with some of the most phenomenal actors, and then have one of the most amazing directors in the corner of the room, it was so, so, so surreal. I was able to just do so much. It really just flabbergasted me. They have their own little circle, and they just let you into it with open arms.