Metallica’s James Hetfield acts in the new dark western thriller ”The Thicket”, a movie that will be in theaters on September 6.

In an interview with The Metallica Report, James Hetfield mentioned if he would leave the band and the stage for an acting career:

“I’m not into acting at all. I mean, I act enough on the stage, like projecting. For us on stage, projecting big, it’s almost more like Broadway. When you’re in a movie, you do just a little thing and that’s, ‘Whoa,’ that’s enough. I like big projecting.

“So for me to be invited to be part of a film where I don’t have to go and audition or something, ’cause that doesn’t interest me, really. I’ve done that before, and it’s not my bag, really. But he invited me along.

”There was a couple of other things that I had done before. Joe Berlinger (director) asked me to do something similar in the Ted Bundy doc that he put together. […]

“It’s certainly not a career choice for me. I love what I do and I wanna continue to do that till my last breath. But just something fun. I love that someone just asks you. They see you, they picture you in a part and then you go and you do it. I think that was very cool of Peter.”