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“It was a challenging role and being able to challenge myself is most important.” “I played a cult leader who was physically and emotionally abusive to his cult members during an uprising against the government,” Metta said. But his favorite character is the one he portrayed in The After. He said his largest part thus far was as “Matty Gable” in the horror flick Bleeding Hearts. It was just a one-day shoot but Metta has had more expansive roles in other films.

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The stunt driver pulled away, spinning his tires, before it happened each and every take - quite exciting.” The driver in the scene was to be verbally abusive towards Ellen’s character while my character sat and enjoyed every moment of it until one of the protagonists decided to grab a crowbar and tried to hit the Jeep. ” I was told to sit in the passenger seat of a Jeep in the pouring rain while the stunt driver pulled into the shop Ellen’s character (“Stacie Andree”) had been working in. “It was most definitely interesting and something that I had never experienced before on camera,” he related.

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Although the movie is set in New Jersey, Metta’s part was filmed at a gas station in Rye, NY. The opportunity to appear in Freeheld came through his affiliation with the Central Casting agency. Michael Metta shares a scene with actress Taylor LaShae in “The After.” Photo courtesy of Michael Metta I started reading her books and decided to take some courses.”

After doing some research about potential acting classes, I read about many great actors who had worked with Stella and embraced ‘method’ acting. As my confidence grew, so did my desire for expressing myself through acting.

“I wanted to continue the art of expression in a different area as I was growing and improving myself. “The interest in acting came right after (The Jetsetting) had broken up,” Metta said. He said that a contract with a major record label was in the offing when the band broke up. That led to piano lessons that he continued into his early 20s while also being taught how to play the drums by his father. Metta parlayed that into a gig with the band “The Jetsetting,” which had built a rather large following playing the North Jersey club circuit, such as at Maxwell’s in Hoboken. I couldn’t have been more than six years old but I seemed to have a natural gift for the keyboard and I really impressed my grandmother. “I remember her pulling out a small keyboard - maybe 22 keys - and putting it in front me to try and play. “I was playing keyboards and piano at my grandmother’s house,” Metta recalled. Growing up as Dennis Michael Giammetta in the southeastern Bergen County borough nestled between the Meadowlands and Passaic River, he was focused on sports and another art form, music. After taking a few classes at Stella Adler (the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City), I really knew it was something that I truly enjoyed.” I did not appear in any plays before or during high school. “I was somewhat shy and thought it’d be a great way to help me break out of my shell. “I got into acting out of curiosity after high school,” Metta explained. Not bad for someone who didn’t even give a second thought about acting until after he graduated from North Arlington High School.

Those and others have been mostly small roles but Metta is quickly building up his resume.

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Or multiple times as various characters on the hit HBO series Boardwalk Empire. You might have seen the North Arlington native as an amused car passenger in the recently released Freeheld starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page. He’s Michael Metta and he’s been surfacing a fair amount lately on both the big and small screens. North Arlington’s Michael Metta not only is an actor and musician, he also does a bit of modeling.

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