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12 years after starring as Hit Girl in the hit comic book satire Kick-A** – and nearly a decade after the film’s 2013 sequel – Chloë Grace Moretz has returned to the action genre in Amazon Prime Video’s stunning new sci-fi series, The Peripheral. Express.co.uk recently caught up with the A-list star about bringing the cyberpunk world of William Gibson to screens.
The Peripheral’s leading star has opened up about her return to action in Prime Video’s eight-part drama based on the sci-fi bestseller.
Based on William’s 2014 book and created by the masterminds behind Westworld, the new series throws Chloë headfirst into a futuristic world of virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
At the beginning of the series, Chloë’s character Flynne Fisher and her brother Burton (played by Jack Reynor) are hired to test out an advanced virtual world.
Flynne soon discovers her new surroundings aren’t what they initially appeared, and the Fishers work together to uncover a vast, dystopian conspiracy.
“I was really lucky to be able to literally flex my muscles in this show,” Chloë told Express.co.uk at the series’ London premiere. “It was really fun to jump back into action.”
Chloë’s first foray into action arrived with her breakout role as Hit-Girl in Kick-A**, which quickly cemented her as an action star to watch out for.
Since then, the star’s action-heavy roles have been few and far between, though she revealed she has been keeping up with her training.
“I really kept up with it since I was younger,” Chloë explained. “I haven’t had the opportunity over the last several years to show that side of myself.”
“But, it was really great to dig into it in this show. And they really pushed me to go for it.”
Chloë went on to credit The Peripheral’s world-class stunt coordinators for helping to bring some of the series’ more physically demanding sequences to life.
“We had a wonderful stunt team in both America and the UK and it was really cool,” she said.
“We did a lot of interesting mixed martial arts and a lot of judo, which I feel like you don’t see a lot of women do on screen.”
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The Kick-A** star made a return to her action roots in 2020’s Shadow in the Cloud but has more recently focused on roles in hard-hitting dramas and genre films such as The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Suspiria.
The Peripheral marks the first time Chloë has led her own TV series, and she was thrilled to have eight episodes to fully explore Flynne and her futuristic surroundings.
“It’s kind of an actor’s dream if it’s the right character. And Flynn was definitely the right character for it,” she revealed.
“A William Gibson novel is already so dense and immense that when you turn that into eight episodes you almost feel like you need 10.
“But, with this show, each episode matters. In each episode there’s so much we had to grasp and so much we had to get into it.
“And being able to sit with Flynn throughout the course of the eight episodes, eight hours, 800 pages we were filming; it was really exciting and I really was thrilled by it.”
More episodes of The Peripheral will be coming each week, and the TV adaptation has already had the thumbs-up from serious William Gibson fans.
The Peripheral airs Fridays on Amazon Prime Video.
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