Aaron Johnson has described his latest project Kick Ass an 'anti-hero' movie that spoofs highly successful superhero movies such as Spiderman.
The movie is based on Mark Millar's comic of the same name and nineteen year old Johnson plays the movie's central hero Kick Ass.
Speaking to Contactmusic the actor said: "I mean obviously its comic book and we wanna keep faithful to that and truthful to that.
"But it is enjoyable being this sort of anti-hero, who is not as good as he wants to be. It's sort of a spoof on Spider-Man or Superman.
"There are so many moments in the film which reflect other superheroes. We've got lines from 'Superman', we've got my little spoof on 'Spider-Man'.
"We flip and change those cliche moments and that's what makes it really great."
Kick Ass is a change of direction for the young actor, who was last seen as John Lennon in Nowhere Boy, The movie is also the first project for filmmaker Matthew Vaughn since Stardust.
Kick Ass boasts an impressive cast of Nicolas Cage, Mark Strong, Christopher Mintz Plasse and introduces Chloe Moretz.
Kick Ass is released 31st March.
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