Moretz, now 20, told the story to Variety for their annual Young Hollywood Issue, leaving fans to guess the identity of the guy in question.
Here's her story:
"This guy that was my love interest was like, 'I'd never date you in a real life,' and I was like, 'What?' And he was like, 'Yeah, you're too big for me' — as in my size. It was one of the only actors that ever made me cry on set.
I went bawling to my brother and he was like, 'What happened?' And I was like, 'He told me I was too big.' And my brother was like, 'What just happened?' My brother was so angry. I had to pick it up and go back on set and pretend he was a love interest, and it was really hard...It just makes you realize that there are some really bad people out there and for some reason, he felt the need to say that to me. You have to kind of forgive and not forget really, but it was just like wow. It was jarring. I look back on it and I was 15, which is really, really dark."
You could argue a 15-year-old shouldn't even be playing the love interest of a grown man, even if that "man" doesn't act like one. (What was the theory in telling her that? Just curious.)
Since Moretz said she was 15 and the unnamed actor was "23, 24 or 25," fans were left to do some detective work to figure out her co-star. LaineyGossip got in on that action:
"A few of you have emailed and/or tweeted about who this might have been, and whether or not it could have been Aaron Taylor-Johnson who worked with Chloe on Kick-Ass and the sequel. I'm not sure I would say that he was her 'love interest' in the movie though. There was another dude who was in the sequel who went on a date with Hit Girl. Him? My first thought when considering her age and the time of filming was another movie she was in called If I Stay. Her love interest on If I Stay was Jamie Blackley."
It's unfortunate that some guys who had nothing to do with this are now being dragged into it, but blame the kind of dude-bro who would say that to a girl (of any age, but especially an impressionable teen) in the first place.
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