![]() ![]() “I mean, how lucky! That doesn’t happen very often, you know. “It was a weird thing,” said Klebe of the casting. ![]() She’d got the part of “Lynda” in Rob Zombie’s remake. Having auditioned for the film while on a trip to Los Angeles, Klebe made the decision to move to the west coast shortly thereafter, and after only having lived in Los Angeles for a week, she got the call. It wasn’t long before Hollywood came calling, by way of the Halloween franchise. Kristina Klebe on the New York Stage as “Juliet” in “Romeo & Juliet” (2004) That was my ultimate goal: to get back up on the stage in New York.” My dream was always to be on Broadway, and that’s why at one point in my career I decided to go to Hollywood, for it to assist in that dream. “That was my number one love, and still is. “I was always doing theater,” Klebe recalled. Klebe graduated Dartmouth cum laude with a major in Politics and a minor in Film, and then attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill National Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut (along with John Krasinski), all the while honing her craft off-Broadway, where she played the leads in such productions as “The Bourgeois Gentleman,” “On the Verge” and “A Servant of Two Masters,” among others. “The school’s drama department would put on Christmas shows,” Klebe offered, “and we’d do ‘The Three Kings.’ They asked, ‘Who wants to play one of the kings, and which one do you want to play?’ And I raised my hand and said, ‘The one that has the most lines!’ I wanted to be the lead in the show, which is absurd now when I think about it, but I was a little kid, and I wanted to act.” Her introduction to the stage happened during this time frame as well. I just loved poetry, and spoken word, most probably because I didn’t speak until I was two. ![]() ![]() I’d get a two-page poem on a Friday and memorize it in order to recite it in class the following Monday. Later in life I’d discover the Michael Checkov technique, which is exactly that: imagining yourself in the world of the narrative, both in theater and on film.”Īttending Catholic school as a young child, Klebe recalled of the time, in which in addition to her scholastic activities included public service (her choice was to read to the blind), “I liked to recite things, and I loved poems. I think that helped me as an actor, because in my opinion, it’s all about imagining a situation, and putting yourself into it. Also, because my parents spoke both German and English at home, I interestingly didn’t start speaking until I was two years old, and because of that I was in my own world I think, as I couldn’t prior to that find words to express myself, which led to me have a very vivid imagination. “As a kid, I made up stories and imaginary characters all of the time in order to entertain myself. “I think the thing that inspired my inclinations towards acting was more than anything else being an only child,” offered the actress, who’s multinational upbringing found her spending significant time in Germany, France and Italy as both a child and later a teenager, including living in Paris as an exchange student in her senior year of high school, where she interned at the film distribution company M5. Born in New York City, where she’d later hone her acting skills in off-Broadway plays ranging from characters such as “Juliet” in “Romeo & Juliet” as a member of the Jean Cocteau Repertory to working with Colman Domingo (“Fear of the Walking Dead”) on “The Big Funk” for New York Theater Workshop, Klebe showed an interest at a young age in the craft. ![]()
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