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Jun 27, 2024 · Jett Klyne experienced something most young actors never will… the chance to watch his own movie in his hometown theatre. Klyne, the lead in Rebecca Snow’s Holocaust drama The Boy in the Woods was in the house Monday for a screening and Q&A at Landmark Cinemas in Penticton.
Jun 22, 2024 · A teen actor from Penticton who is known for his roles in Marvel’s Doctor Strange and WandaVision will once again be on the big screen. Jett Klyne stars in the dramatic re-telling of a true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
Jun 20, 2024 · Separated from everyone and everything he knows, he lives out the war in hiding, in a forest. The story begins in 1943 in Buczacz. Jett Klyne stars as Max, a boy of 12 living with his mother and sister. They await deportation and “resettlement,” and that day comes soon enough.
Jun 22, 2024 · Much of the film is carried by 15-year-old Jett Klyne, of Penticton. He says Smart’s story resonated with him because his great-grandmother is a Holocaust survivor.
Jun 24, 2024 · Young Okanagan actor stars in Holocaust survival movie. From Gerber Baby to major role in WW2 movie. Penticton High School student Jett Klyne has just finished Grade 9 and is looking forward to a summer on the beach and playing rugby with his friends.
Jun 20, 2024 · Maxwell Smart, a 94 year-old Holocaust survivor, is shown in an undated handout photo alongside "The Boy in the Woods" actors David Kohlsmith, left, and Jett Klyne. Smart was just 11 years old when he escaped Nazi persecution in eastern Europe by learning to live alone in a forest.
Jun 20, 2024 · Child actor Jett Klyne plays Max a Jewish boy aged 12 from Warsaw, trying to evade capture during the second World War. His selfless mother tells him to run away from the Nazi trucks which they are about to fatally board with his little sister.
