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Okay, these are interviews with Khleo. No, I did not interview him! (I wish) But, I did find these interviews.. From many sites! Thanks to those who helped! :).. PS: The markings in red are just me! I wasn't there or nothing I just wrote stuff after I read it to be silly.. LoL.. OH and Um, this is still under construction!!

CELEBRITY CLOSE UPS INTERVIEW
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KHLEO THOMAS is a young, talented, up and coming actor who recently portrayed the character "Zero", in Disney's hit movie "Holes". We first interviewed Khleo at the "Holes" premiere and was very impressed with his charming personality and acting abilities. From the moment we put up Khleo's interview, we were been bombarded with requests for more Khleo. We read each and every request and immediately knew we had to do a follow-up interview with Khleo. Celebrity Close-Ups was fortunate to recently have lunch with Khleo and his father at a cafe in the Los Angeles area. After lunch, Khleo was gracious to give us an in-depth interview and allowed us to have a photo session with him. The questions we asked were all submitted by you, the readers. Credits for the questions are at the bottom of this interview page.
During the interview, a fan recognized Khleo and wanted his autograph. Immediately after the interview, Khleo did not hesitate to talk to the fan and take a photo with her. (The photo of Khleo and the fan is in our Photo section). The fan was very excited to meet Khleo and Khleo was happy to meet his fan.
Now, for all of you girls who are dying to know what Khleo is like, well, he is a charming, intelligent and sweet young man. He is a lot of fun to talk to and has a darling smile that will melt your heart. He is definately grounded in his beliefs and comes from a strong family upbringing. He loves his parents and speaks highly of them. He is a young man who makes time for his family, career and friends. Overall, Khleo is a young man who knows where he's going and what he wants out of life. We see Khleo going very far in his career and we wish him all the best.
Celebrity Close-ups would like to thank Khleo and his parents for allowing us to do this interview. Thank you Khleo for taking time out of your busy schedule to answer questions submitted by your fans and for giving them a more in depth look at who you are.

Celebrity Close-Ups: Can you introduce yourself, please? Khleo Thomas: My name is Khleo Thomas and I'm fourteen (14) years old. Yup, Yup! The cute name..:D
I normally don't like to ask this quesion, but we have tons of girls asking this. Do you have a girlfriend? At this time, no I do not have a girlfriend. (Thank u God!!) I knew it!! They were posers... YES! single.. :P
Would you ever date a fan? Yeah, every girl is the same, I don't like to single anybody out. Boy, are you for real?? I'll be waiting for your call soon! ;)
What do you look for most in a girl? Personality and how she reacts to certain things and an open relationship.Well, again I'll be waiting for your call!
When did you first know you wanted to be an actor? When I turned four (4) years old and I saw people on TV and I thought man, I gotta do this. My mom supported me and my Dad supported me and I got into it, and there it is.awww.. *cries*
When did you first start acting? I first started acting when I was five (5). I did a commercial, it was for a Disney sweepstakes. They were giving away a Van and people saw me on that and people started liking me and that's when I got an agent and a manager and things started to roll.Even though I was only 3 at that time, I enjoyed watching that :D
How has fame changed you? It hasn't change me at all. I am still the normal kid you see walking down the street. I still go the mall, I hang out with my friends, I still talk on the phone. If a fan sees me I talk to them for as long as they like, as long as I'm not in a rush. I don't think I will ever become one of those guys that have a big head.You'll never be a big head to me!

So, what's a typical day for you? Everyday is a typical day. I go out whenever I can if I'm not doing my chores. I go outside and I call my friends up and say do you wanna see a movie or what? Then I go out.
What time you do get up in the morning? 9:00 o'clock in the morning, every morning.Me too!
How do you feel that there are thousands of girls out there that are in love with you? Sometimes I see how the girls react to me out there, and I start to talk to them and they start (Khleo raises hands and makes a shocked expression) 'AHHHHHHHH'. true that
Have you had any crazy fan experiences yet? No, not yet. well, if i ever met you that counts as 1
When you were shooting "Holes" what was your favorite scene to shoot? The lizard scene. Probably everybody knows that from me. They were just so cool to be in the hole with because they just run all over your body. really? thats cool i guess?
What did you do when you weren't filming? We were either getting in trouble or play arouund with eachother. We had a mini Playstation on set. We also came up with the "Dig It" song while we were in the school trailer. We had tournaments...baseball, basketball, fighting. Anything like that! It was real fun. i like baseball and basketball...
Who were you closet with? Um, probably Shia. We had alot of fun together. Play around with the lizards. He taught me how to play guitar. in the closet? together??? that doesnt sound right....
What's the funniest thing that happened on the "Holes" set? We had a food fight but with squirt guns. What we did was put water in the guns and added Ketchup, Mustard, lettuce...not lettuce, I'm sorry, relish, we smushed the relish 'till it got real thin, and we had a food fight at the base camp and it got really, really wet and nasty.
Do you still keep in contact with the guys from "Holes"? Yeah, I call almost everyone every other day. I keep in contact with them. Shia was actually in Vancouver with me. I keep in touch with Jacob when I'm in New York, same thing with Max, and everybody. We became a big family. aww thats sweet.. can i have their number?

If you could act with any actor or actress or would it be and why? Michelle Rodriguez because she's sooooooooooo, soooooooooooo fine! when you saw her it wasn't that dark outside
Do you have any new projects you are working on? I'm working on a new movie called, "Walking Tall". It's a remake of the 1971 movie. It's starring The Rock and Johhny Knoxville. I play The Rock's nephew. That's a real fun shoot. We're shooting in Canada. It's real fun. I get to ride a motobike in it. Does that mean I get to ride on the back of the bike? Please!!! LoL
Would you ever consider getting into a music career? [smiles] Yes, actually. I'm going to start making my own cd. I'm writing my own lyrics. I have a record label that wants to pick me up. You know I'll be buying that!
What kind of music can we expect? Rap and R&B.
What kind of music do you listen to? Rap, R&B, Rock and Underground. figures...
What are some of your hobbies? My hobbies are basketball, football, martial arts, collecting Japanese animation, hanging with my friends, uh I am just a normal kid.I like all of that too
What's your favorite movie? My favorite movie is "The Nightmare Before Christmas". I'm not lying, but that is like one of my favorite movies too... someday i am getting a tatto of it like a guy from that one rock band.. gc
Which actor/actress were you most excited to meet? Sigourney Weaver. The first time Sigourney Weaver came on set and she came around the corner, I just screamed because I have the whole "Alien" trilogy in a DVD set and I just screamed her name. I've seen all her movies and she kicks butt.

What would you like to say to all your fans? I would like to say thank you guys for all the support you've given me. I will continue to do my work. For all the posers out there, I only have one e-mail adress, it's Khleo2003@yahoo.com and I only sign on in one message board which is yahoo.movies.com. I'm not signing into other kinds of message boards and I don't have another e-mail address and that's it, just those two. So, if you find someone else saying they're me, it's not, they're lying. EXACTLY! I knew there were lying!!
Thank you Khleo. Peace.




Khelo Thomas Likes Acting With Lizards Khelo Thomas
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Birthdate: January 30, 1989
Birthplace: Anchorage, Alaska
Current residence: Los Angeles, California
Siblings: two younger brothers, Kadeem, 11, Khamel, 3
Q: How did you get the role of Zero?
Khelo: By auditioning. The first audition I went on, I impressed the casting director and then they called me back. I then went to audition for the director and producer of the film.
Q: Was this specifically for the role of Zero?
Khelo: For Zero. Then they called me back a third time and I had to go to a screen test. That is when they bring the best of the best of the character that you'll be playing. They put you in the studio in a scene and they switch people in and out to see who looks the best. There were 10 kids going for my role. They weren't really paying attention to me, so I said, "OK, so I didn't get this one." Then, when [our group] was leaving, there were 10 more Zeros coming in. I said, "Eh, I'm not even going to worry about this one." Two days later, I got a call saying I got the role.
Q: Why do you think you were picked?
Khelo: I think it was the director; I think he really liked me because I acted well and was very polite.
Q: What was the most fun thing about filming the movie?
Khelo: Meeting new people on the set and the lizards.
to Khelo's description of these lizards.

Q: So, they don't really bite?
Khelo: No.
Q: Was there an animal trainer on set to make them seem harmful, like they are in the movie?
Khelo: Yes, but he didn't really have to do anything because they were acting [like] themselves, actually moving around.
Q: Did you know going into this project that you would wind up in a hole with a bunch of lizards?
Khelo: I like lizards.

Q: Did the other actors pull pranks on each other when the cameras weren't rolling?
Khelo: Shia had put mud on Max's brand-new studio chairs. Max was so mad, so when Shia left to do his scene, Max threw his chair in a hole and started dumping bottles of water on it.

Q: Were you involved in this?
Khelo: No, but there was a fight. It was Jacob, Shia, and me versus the other kids. We had squirt guns and we filled them up with ketchup and mustard. We ran after the guys, chasing them, and we started squirting all of them, everything at them. We ran back to Shiais trailer, and when we were coming out, they just threw stuff at us: onions, relish, mustard, and mayonnaise. Just everything!
Q: Not those huge onions that were in the movie?
Khelo: No, no! Those were actually apples with edible ceramic wrap.
Q: How long were you out in the desert filming?
Khelo: Two months.

Q: What was there to do when you weren't filming?
Khelo: We stayed in school. They had a VCR, so we could watch movies. We'd play pranks on each other. We'd talk, or sing some songs.

Q: How did you handle school when people were in all different grades?
Khelo: They had a school trailer for us with two teachers. I was home-schooled, so it was easy for me.

Q: Have you always been home-schooled?
Khelo: No, from kindergarten through seventh grade I went to regular school, and I was just starting home school when I found out I got the part.

Q: Which do you like better?
Khelo: I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted. At school, it would take me an hour just to finish an assignment. Now it takes 20 minutes.

Q: What's your favorite subject?
Khelo: Science, because you can do so many different things, like dissect frogs, find out about different chemicals.

Q: Did you dissect one of those lizards?
Khelo: No way!

Q: Do you like to read?
Khelo: Every other day I read a book. It takes me two days to finish a book. I like reading because if I'm not doing anything, then I read. If my mom tells me to go take out the trash, I'll go take out the trash, and come back and start reading again.

Q: What's your favorite book?
Khelo: The Harry Potter series.

Q: Had you read Holes before you got the part in the movie?
Khelo: No, I didn't. When I had to go audition for it, I went and got the book.

Q: Was there something they took out of the book when making the movie that you wish they had kept in?
Khelo: Stanley's character, Shia, is supposed to be fat in the beginning, but they ended up not doing that because they didn't want Shia to be overworked.

Q: Did Sigourney Weaver or Jon Voight give you any acting advice?
Khelo: Jon gave me pointers on eye contact. He told me that if you're doing a close-up, you should imagine the person that you're supposed to be in the scene with there.

Interview by Paul Coco