SPOILER WARNING: The following contains spoilers for FROM Season 2, Episodes 1-7.

As the nightmare town in FROM’s only medical professional, Chloe Van Landschoot’s Kristi has more than had her hands full keeping people alive – and her sanity intact. She sat down with us to talk about her real-life medical background, why Kristi needs a mental break, and just what she hopes for FROM’s hardest-working resident.

Kelsey Yoor: I think it’s pretty cool that you have a dual background as a medical professional and an actor. How much of your real-life medical experience has kind of informed how Kristi’s arc has gone?

Chloe Van Landschoot: Oh yeah! Fully actually, so much of my identity as a healthcare worker is absolutely wrapped up in Kristi and it feels really special to be able to bring all of that training to a part as well, and have a lot of agency and trust, in both yourself playing something like that and also the production allowing me to kind of take the reins when it comes to the medical scenes as well! So nice.

KY: I feel like Kristi’s the hardest-working woman in town. I mean, she’s surviving the monsters, she’s the only doctor, she’s at the center of a Wattpad-style love triangle… How do you approach that as Kristi is juggling it all?

CVL: (Laughs) Yeah, honey’s got a lot going on! But I think like part of, at least my experience of being a healthcare worker too, is you just stay the course. You stay focused, you leave your feelings at the door and you get the job done. And I think in Season 1, that’s what we saw with Kristi, but you throw in a fiancé from your past who’s the love of your life, arriving in Nightmare Town with you, it’s gonna start to conjure up everything that you’ve been putting away and been trying to forget in order to do your job.

KY: So in Season 2, we really see all of that life start to erupt out of Kristi and she’s a lot less calm, cool, and controlled season. Sorry for Kristi, but that’s gotta be a little bit more fun to play, too.

CVL: Correct. It’s fun to let it out instead of keeping it in!

KY: And with Marielle (played by Kaelen Ohm) coming back, do you feel like that’s more of a gift for Kristi or a torture?

CVL: I mean, I know it’s a torture for poor Kenny (laughs), but I think it’s one of those things where it has both “a gift and a curse” kind of vibes. I think Kristi’s navigating a lot of guilt thinking she conjured her there as well. Not to mention in Season 1, she was just not necessarily considering letting Marielle go, but she was at that point of not knowing what to do.

And I think that’s a big thing for Kristi to admit when she doesn’t know anything. So kind of finishing off Season 1 with that and then we pick up where we left off and Marielle’s there, it’s, it’s a lot. It’s so complex and confusing, and I think that reunion scene is what that is: it’s terror, it’s relief, it’s deep love, it’s anger, it’s everything all wrapped into one. It’s a lot and there’s not a lot of time this season to unpack it.

KY: Is that something you’d hope for Kristi in Season 3? A little bit more time to emotionally unwind and unpack some trauma?

CVL: I mean, wouldn’t we want that? I think everybody in that town needs some time to unpack their trauma and have a little therapy session, but we both know that’s never gonna happen. It’s FROM town. There’s no such thing. (Laughs)

KY: The next person that sees that tree might be a therapist.

CVL: (Laughs) You know what, Kelsey, you could be right. Oh, how we would all benefit from that!

KY: Anything really you’d like to see happen for Kristi though as you move forward?Anything you’d be excited about for her storyline?

CVL: I would really like to see her being incapable of doing her job, I think in some capacity. I don’t know how or in what form, but so much of her identity is wrapped up in her responsibility to that town and her role as a doctor, that I am so curious to know what would happen when that’s taken away from her in some capacity, and how that affects her inner world and the relationships that she has with other people as well.

KY: Have you had a favorite memory from filming this season?

CVL: Oh yeah. Lots. The reunion scene with Marielle was really, really cool. There were no words in that scene and it was amazing to just be so present with someone and not say a single word and just see what happens. So that was really special.

And then I loved shooting episode 6, the scene with Ellis and the finger thoracostomy. That was crazy. One of my good friends is an advanced care paramedic, and she really helped out with that scene. She’s actually done that procedure, some version of it, in the field before. So she was such a good resource! We spent a lot of time making that scene as medically accurate as possible.

So it was so fun to be able to use my geeky little brain to help out with that and just to see how much time goes into making all of those prosthetics and all of the special effects, the visual effects, all the gags. It’s such a dance and such choreography and you only have like one or two shots to do it, so it’s like, “You better not blow it!” So it takes some time, but it’s so cool when it all comes together and it works. And my heart rate was racing a little bit!

KY: Do you have any advice that you would give Kristi for either the rest of the season or surviving ahead?

CVL: Oh honey, it’s time to sit with yourself. But we both know that’s not gonna happen. So I’d say just keep on keeping on and be gentle. Be kind to yourself.

KY: And hopefully, hopefully, Kristi gets a mental break and a nice vacation at the end of this!

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