Chloë Grace Moretz should be on the road. She stars in two major films being released this year, so there’s a lot to promote.
But since the pandemic has halted regular life, she is stationed at her home in Los Angeles, which presents her with a couple of new realities: being at her abode (this is the longest stretch ever) and having loads of free time.
From age 5, Chloë has spent most of her life traveling or on a set. Since she can remember, her days have run on a rigid schedule planned to the hour. Then, poof, her routine suddenly dismantled, and Chloë became unmoored.
“In the beginning it felt nice to take a break. I thought it might last for a few weeks. Then it became very real that we weren’t going back to work. It was daunting and so scary.”
With the shift to endless unaccounted-for hours, Chloë began examining her life goals and essentially set out on a get-to-know-herself odyssey.
Her one mandate was to be truthful. “I always go by honesty,” she says. “As long as you speak your truth, you’re not going to steer yourself wrong.”
In her process so far, Chloë has discovered a few things. Most notably, how important it is to her to back up her beliefs. She has educated herself on social justice issues and has used her Instagram page to let political figures and other activists speak to her 17 million followers.
If there’s a whispered dictate that young Hollywood starlets should stay neutral and silent, Chloë isn’t abiding.
