Rob Zombie the Sweetheart: Kristina Klebe Recalls Working on HALLOWEEN 2007
Shock-rocker turned filmmaker Rob Zombie has an intimidating persona (both on and off stage). But in an extensive interview published by our friends at HalloweenMovies.com, Halloween 2007 actress Kristina Klebe shared some fond memories from the production. While it’s absolutely worth reading in its entirety, we were most impressed by her recollections of Zombie himself.
“Rob was always so great and easy to work with,” she recalled. “He was very direct, and he was great at giving directions, was full of praise for his cast, and sometimes encouraged improvisation. There’s a scene in the director’s cut of Halloween, where the girls are walking and I’m talking about conjugating some French with a French teacher, which I had made up, and Rob said, ‘Hey, you speak a couple of languages, right? Do something like that.’ I was like, ‘Oh my god, OK!’ Rob can pick out your strengths and he knows how to play to them.”
Klebe also recalled how Zombie went above and beyond to make her feel at ease on set.
“While filming Halloween, I was also shooting the (2008) romantic comedy The Accidental Husband in New York,” recalled Klebe, “and they needed a pick up shot, so I had to fly back to the east coast to do it, and then get right back on a red eye flight in order to return to the Halloween set in LA, in order to shoot the scene in the library where the girls are talking. I guess I was a little tired and I had a blemish on my chin or something, and someone on the crew, and I won’t say who, mentioned it in front of people. Like, ‘Oh, Kristina, you have something on your chin, and you should cover that up.’ People could have said anything, and I wouldn’t have cared. I was just so tired and was only focused on the scene, but I guess Rob became so angry with that person over their comment that he yelled at them, and later came to my trailer to apologize personally for that person’s statement. It was such a weird moment, and I thought, ‘Wow, I can’t believe that Rob even noticed that, and that he went out of his way to apologize.’ It was meaningful. He really cares for his actors.”
Synopsis:
Nearly two decades after being committed to a mental institution for killing his stepfather and older sister, Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) breaks out, intent on returning to the town of Haddonfield, Ill. He arrives in his hometown on Halloween with the indomitable purpose of hunting down his younger sister, Laurie (Scout Taylor-Compton). The only thing standing between Michael and a Halloween night of bloody carnage is psychologist Dr. Samuel Loomis (Malcolm McDowell).
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