We recently connected with Alberto Fabbretti and have shared our conversation below.
Alberto, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.
The most meaningful project I have worked on is a commercial and print campaign for the 10th anniversary of The Broad museum in LA, which was released starting in September 2025.
I was cast as lead actor to play the boyfriend in a young couple who’s visiting the museum. The project was listed on a casting website as a short film for The Broad museum. Initially I thought it was an independent project associated to or inspired by the museum. I got cast for it, and when I asked the casting director about details I was amazed to know that it was an official commercial, in the format of a short film, for one of the biggest modern art museums in the whole country! Filming and photoshoot took place in one day inside different rooms of the museum. However, there were still so many things I didn’t know yet…
At the time I was aware of the project high profile since it’s was a campaign for The Broad, however I had no clue of how big it was gonna be. The short film of my section of the commercial was released on October 3, and in a few days it became popular all over the Internet, visible across multiple platforms, reaching a wide audience. The commercial success of the campaign was also shown by the presence of a dedicated advertising billboard on Sunset Boulevard. I received messages from people telling me that the billboard was out there, in front of millions of people.
I’m very grateful for having worked in such a successful project, especially since when I accepted the role I could have never thought it was gonna be this big.
Alberto, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I’m an actor and model, with experience working in film, TV shows, vertical series, commercials, print campaigns and runway shows.
I studied acting for a couple of years in New York. After that I began working as an actor, moving to LA a few months later. While I was in New York I started pursuing a modeling career in runway as well, which then transitioned more into print modeling after I moved to LA.
During the last two years I have acted in a lot of verticals drama series, as well as in commercials and print campaigns for prominent clients, such as The Broad, FamilyMart and the fashion designer Victoria Vincent.
I’m also a producer, so far mostly of short movies. I produced “36 Hours in New York” in 2020 which has been nominated for awards and screened at numerous very well-known film festivals across the US and Europe. Then I produced a few more, and I just finished filming a short titled “The Last Chance”, which I’m going to submit to film festivals around the world very soon!
I have always tried to do things my own way, also considering others’ opinions of course, but always thinking with my own head and especially listening to my heart. I’m proud of everything that I have achieved so far and also of the mistakes that I made. I believe that mistakes, even if we don’t want them to happen, often occur for good or at least they teach us something, allowing us to take a step forward that will be much better than it would have been if that mistake wasn’t there.
We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?
For a while I believed that you have to live in a place where there’s a lot of work. Of course it depends by circumstances, people’s needs, etc., however today I believe it’s something only partially and not necessarily true.
Even though in big cities there’s indeed a lot of work, especially in industries like entertainment, also smaller areas can offer good job opportunities. Furthermore, if you produce your own stuff you don’t have to necessarily be tied to a huge metropolis only because most of the work is concentrated there.
Again, it depends on what someone wants and how they prefer to proceed, but I believe that it’s not necessarily correct the premise that if you wanna do a certain job you necessarily have to be in an area where there are many opportunities related to that field.
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
At the end of 2019 I auditioned for a role in a feature film directed by a very well-known Canadian producer and actor. A few days later I received an email saying that they were offering me a role in one scene. I read the script and accepted it. It was my first speaking role on the big screen!
However, a few weeks later, Covid hit and filming was postponed. I hoped it was just a matter of waiting for the storm to pass, but one day I received another email saying that the production had been permanently canceled.
For a moment I thought that it was a sign not to continue my acting career, but that’s when my resilience stepped in and helped me understand what all of that exactly was, an unfortunate circumstance. So… I continued my journey.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10696073
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alberto_fabbretti
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/albertofabbrettiactor
- Twitter: https://x.com/alberto_fabbret
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@albertofabbretti
- Other: If anyone wants to collaborate in creating any interesting and fun project, you can dm me on IG!
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