What would Jim say if he met Klaus? (Picture: Netflix/Getty)

The Umbrella Academy’s Klaus has become a firm fan favourite of the series thanks to the tormented soul being troubled by appearances from the dead.

But Robert Sheehan reckons that if he had the superpower himself he could be able to do something that has been troubling music fans everywhere – and put an end to the conspiracy theory behind Jim Morrison’s death.

The Doors frontman was tragically found dead at the age of 27 in a hotel bathtub in Paris in 1971, from what was officially ruled heart failure.

But because an autopsy was never performed, conspiracy theories surrounding the death have continued to this day, varying from a suspected heroin overdose, being murdered by a hitman, or even still being alive and starting a new life under a new identity.


Jim was found dead in the bath of his Paris hotel room in 1971 (Picture: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

So Robert, when asked who he would talk to if he was given Klaus’s powers, said he would but an end to the suspicion.



Speaking exclusively to Metro.co.uk, he said: ‘Who died mysteriously? They’d be good to talk to. Jim Morrison! That would be a good one.’

Explaining to us and David Castañeda, who plays Diego in the series, what he’d heard about the conspiracy, he said: ‘My friend was explaining to me, you know the way he was found in a bath? The conspiracy goes that these nightclub owners, he was in a nightclub, he went back on the heroin, took too much and died on a toilet.

‘Then they took his body and they moved it around the city for a few hours until they eventually they figured out what to do, took him to his flat, put him in a cold bathtub so that the cops couldn’t tell time of death. Do you know what I mean? They changed the temperature of the body.’

Klaus’s troubles haunt him throughout the Umbrella Academy (Picture: Netflix)

‘So..I’d ask Jim and be like “What happened?” Maybe he wouldn’t know!’ he joked. ‘He was probably up in heaven filling out a form or something.’

While Robert only has to hypothetically think about talking to the dead, in his TV show The Umbrella Academy, Klaus is constantly tormented with the voices from those beyond the grave, and has taken to drugs to drown them out.

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Speaking about his motivations for the character, Robert explained: ‘He has this kind of ennui drenched, Oscar Wilde witticism to him, that’s kind of gallows and funny and dark, so I wanted to keep that.

‘I wanted to try to you know, he has a ghostliness to him, Klaus, because he sort’ve drifts from one reality of the living, to the reality of the dead and back again.

‘Sometimes…he would be at a restaurant and there’s people eating lunch and whatever else and then one of them would turn their heads and have a big bullet wound around the side of their head and he’d be like “Jesus Christ I didn’t even realise that person was a corpse”.’

‘He doesn’t know what plain of reality he’s on, and drugs don’t help, so all of that, I really wanted to bring a kind of a ghostly vibe to him,’ he added.

The Umbrella Academy is available now on Netflix.

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