Award winning actress Blythe Metz has been noted for her acting work in films Bred In The Bone (2 Disc Set)“>Bred in the Bone, The Craving Heart and The Nightmare Man. She’s also a painter, writer and a comic book fan. This past December, Metz’s submission for the role of Wonder Woman began circulating the internet. Metz recently took some time to talk to Pink Raygun about comic books and why she loves the character of Wonder Woman.
Pink Raygun: You are a self-described comic book geek, which isn’t something you often hear about an actress. What got you interested in comic books?
Blythe Metz: What got me into comic books was directors, photographers and other people in the industry who I’ve worked with over the past four years. They kept telling me that if there’s a Wonder Woman movie, I’ve got to be Wonder Woman. Then two years ago my best girlfriend started telling me how much I am like Wonder Woman, with the volunteer work I do, my general quality I guess she was talking about. So I thought I should learn about this character. I fell in love with her. How can you not? What a great icon she is. When we were rehearsing the submission film I made for Joss Whedon and Joel Silver, little girls and their families alike would watch. They always knew we were “playing” WONDER WOMAN. So I realized that people really do love this character and that she is a symbol for peace and strength and integrity. Once I started reading other comics I found that they’re actually very intelligent. I researched some comic book writers and found that some of them are scholars. They must be because they’re writing about theology and mysticism and mythology. I just love it. I have a quantum physics background and a lot of the writing correlates with quantum physics and mythology, which is so fascinating to me. So my appreciation stemmed from Wonder Woman, and she introduced me to other DC characters. As a child I loved the Batman and Superman movies, which helped give those characters life to me because when I was young, there weren’t a lot of comic books around in my family. I loved that the characters always epitomized good. The DC superheroes are characters to love. Men love them, women love them, kids love them. They’re out to do good, they’re not gossipy, they’re positive. They’re a good image.
PRG: Do you mostly stick with the superheroes in your comic book reading or have you branched out?
BM: I like DC and Marvel. I Love the X-Men and Spiderman. I did some action reference work for She-Hulk, which was really fun.
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PRG: What was your She-Hulk reference work like?
BM: It was very specific. Tilt your head a bit this way, put your leg even higher. You’re twisting your torso in weird ways or leaning over boxes and whatnot to try to get your form to a certain degree. It’s very specific work for poses like that because superhero poses are often not really how the body actually works.
PRG: I read that you were a painter as well. How is that working out for you?
Painting with very bright colors is important to me. I’ve been really interested in words with the past few collections I’ve done. All of my paintings speak vibrational truths. They’re mantras, Sanskrit words or prayers or they speak some everyday wisdom, like “Be Kind”. We’re coming into a time when people are appreciating positivity more, they’re appreciating the power of themselves as creators. If they’re positive, then they’re attracting more positivity. People are beginning to understand more of these kinds of qualities, so my work is starting to get a little more popular. I have my paintings in a few shops and I also sell them from my gallery in my home.
PRG: How did you get into painting?
BM: In my first year of college I just started painting. More and more, I need artistic expression because I’m not always working on a film or writing something. Painting is a perfect expression where you can just go with no right or wrong and put color on a canvas. Its very satisfying for me.
PRG: What other projects do you have going on now?
BM: I’m hopeful that great film opportunities will come to me in the next few months. I’ve been writing a collection of children’s chronicles called The Tales of Ananda. Ananda is a magnificent purple dragon. The first chronicle being illustrated now. We are doing an audiobook that we’ll be recording in the next few weeks. One thing that I’ve learned from my acting experience is how important it is for me to do films that I love, rather than working just to work.
PRG: You mentioned you have a background in quantum physics. how did you make the jumo from quantum physics to acting?
BM: I just really love both. Quantum physics is the study of electron potential, so it’s the study of thought into form or energy into matter, so it’s the study of manifestation. I use my studies in everything I do, in my acting, writing and all of my endeavors. It ties into life.
You can see Blythe Metz in action as Wonder Woman on YouTube. For more on Blythe, including her acting credits and photo gallery, visit her website. Her recent film, The Nightmare Man, is screening at The Backlot Film Festival in Los Angeles on February 2nd.
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