Chloë Grace Moretz Explains Her Twitter Feud With Kim Kardashian

Chloë Grace Moretz keeps her cool. (Photo: Getty Images)

Actress Chloë Grace Moretz isn’t someone we think of as being hotheaded, so it was surprising last week to find her at the center of a Twitter feud with none other than Kim Kardashian.

Moretz, 19, explained the reason behind her jumping into the fray in a new interview with Elle.

“All I’ll say is that I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways,” she told the magazine. “And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind… I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn’t be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things."

For readers who missed the drama, Moretz’s response comes after she and Kardashian exchanged words via social media about one of Kardashian’s naked selfies. To be fair, it included black bars over key areas, but it left very little to the imagination.

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The throwback selfie that started it all. (Photo: Instagram)

Moretz — who’s long identified as a feminist — publicly announced her disapproval.

After backlash from many of the reality star’s supporters, Moretz explained further: "There’s a huge difference in respecting the platform that you’re given as a celebrity and ‘slut shaming’ something I never have done and — would never do.

Still, Kardashian, who’s obviously learned a thing or two from husband Kanye West about social media feuds, fired back at several celebrities who disliked the nude selfie. Moretz did not get a pass.

The Nylon reference was to a December 2015 magazine cover that depicts the Kick-Ass star flashing considerable skin underneath a coat. In the new interview, Moretz addressed the fact that she sometimes does racy photo shoots, which she finds OK, even though she avoids acting roles for "overtly sexualized” characters.

“I mean, I think that’s also a lot more based on artwork, so that’s a little bit of a different conversation. Like, if I’m talking to a photographer, I’m talking to a stylist, I’m talking to a makeup artist, we’re kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different,” she said. “Yeah, it’s representing myself, but it’s also not representing myself, because it’s a character piece. So, I think that is a big difference. On social media, like on Instagram and stuff that I post, and the way that I view myself, and portray myself on there, that’s definitely a much more personalized take. I’m not collaborating with people to make that, it’s my own social media platform in which I’m — it’s not a character, it’s just me."

Moretz also offered some advice for girls dealing with the challenges of social media.

"Depict yourself adequately as what you want to be seen as. Don’t front, don’t put something out there that you feel isn’t realistic and doesn’t portray who you are,” she said. “Just be yourself, be you, and don’t be afraid to speak your mind."

Moretz is obviously not.