SOAP Q: Jake Silbermann leaves Noah behind as producer-writer-star of new indie flick “The Stuffer”

I’m a big fan of the We Love Soaps site for many reasons, one of which is that they snag really cool interviews with some of my favorite actors from the world of daytime soaps.

Editor Roger Newcomb recently chatted with As the World Turns alum Jake Silbermann not about the past, but about the future.

The young actor who was Noah to Van Hansis’s Luke for so many years has completed a short film called Stuffer. It’s about a female Sgt. who returns from the front lines of Afghanistan to her husband and daughter for fear that they will foreclose on their home. But she is coming home with a secret: She is smuggling heroin.

Jake acts in the film for which he wrote the script and was a producer on the project. It is currently being submitted to various film festivals around the country. Jake explains how the film came to be and what fans can expect from the project and also talks about what he’s learned from this experience.

“I’ve learned a lot,” he tells We Love Soaps. “I’ve learned that I like my voice as a writer. I want to continue doing that. I found it just as rewarding to be behind the camera working, helping in whatever way I could as a writer or producer, to help form a scene. It’s really gratifying to see the whole story take shape. I’ve learned how important a script supervisor is. In the production I wore different hats, as a producer, a writer and an actor. I found them each in their own way just as gratifying and just as interesting. I want to do them all.”