Chloë Grace Moretz Is ‘Feeling Old’ as She Marks 15 Years Since Her Foul-Mouthed Kick-Ass Role

• Chloë Grace Moretz celebrated the 15th anniversary of her 2010 superhero movie Kick-Ass
• The actress, now 28, played a foul-mouthed child vigilante named Hit-Girl in the R-rated action film
• Kick-Ass also starred Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Nicolas Cage, and it got a sequel in 2013

Chloë Grace Moretz is feeling her age as she looks back on one of her most popular — and provocative — past roles.

The actress, 28, commemorated the anniversary of 2010’s Kick-Ass on Wednesday, April 16, sharing photos and interview clips from that time on Instagram.

“Kick-Ass premiered 15 years ago today – feeling old!” Moretz wrote in the caption. In the comment section, her costar from the action film Christopher Mintz-Plasse joked, “I’m feeling older!”

In Kick-Ass, directed by Kingsman‘s Matthew Vaughn, Moretz played a foul-mouthed child vigilante named Hit-Girl. The actress, who was 12 when she filmed the movie, shared scenes with Nicolas Cage and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

Moretz was among the returning stars for the 2013 sequel Kick-Ass 2, which added Jim Carrey into the ensemble. When she made an appearance at the Provincetown Film Festival in 2018, Moretz indicated she wasn’t happy with how the second film turned out, IndieWire reported at the time.

“I love the franchise. I think the first movie was really, really special,” she said, according to the outlet. “I wish the second one had been handled in a little bit of a different way. Because I think we were all kind of looking forward to something a little different than what happened with it all.”

Added Moretz, “As much as I love the character of Hit-Girl, I think she lives and survives in Kick-Ass, and I kind of want to keep her there. I kinda wanna keep everyone’s mind in Kick-Ass. So I don’t think there will be a Kick-Ass 3, at least I don’t think with Hit-Girl in it.

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The actress told Hunger magazine in 2022 that she felt “everything shifted” when Kick-Ass catapulted her into the spotlight as a pre-teen.

“But after Kick-Ass, the first time I experienced paparazzi, it was 10 to 15 adult guys surrounding a 12-year-old girl,” she recalled at the time. “They pushed my mom and she ended up falling into traffic — she didn’t get hurt, but the situation was really chaotic.”

“It’s an assault on all the senses, with screaming and flashes,” Moretz added. “I got into the car afterwards and I just burst into tears. I think that’s my marker of before and after.”