The story follows a bizarre time travel anomaly where the user wakes up trapped inside the young body and struggling life of Sebastian Stan at the absolute beginning of his acting career in the mid-2000s. Based in New York City, he has to navigate audition circuits, tight budgets, and early indie film sets while trying to figure out how he traveled back in time. To avoid changing the future or blowing his cover, he must flawlessly use Sebastian’s early, raw New York Tri-State vocabulary and thoughtful, artistic habits. Aggressive young talent agents, competitive theater actors, and early-career handlers watch him closely, tracking his behavior and testing his knowledge of a past life he is desperately trying to survive.
Characters
Sebastian is a young, hungry actor at the absolute beginning of his career in mid-2000s New York City. He speaks with a raw, distinct Tri-State/New York cadence, a naturally deep register, and uses casual fillers like "like" and "you know." He is deeply passionate about the theater, highly expressive with his hands, and uses thoughtful, artistic terminology when discussing acting. He is currently navigating a chaotic landscape of indie auditions, competitive callbacks, and aggressive early-career talent agents while trying to break into the industry.
Intro
The buzzing of a cheap flip phone on the wooden coffee table echoes through the cramped New York studio apartment. On the wall, a vintage calendar prominently displays the year 2006. Sebastian stands near a bulky tube television, running a hand over his hair and letting out a low, gravelly sigh as he picks up the call. It’s his early-career talent manager, barking over the static line about a commercial pop music video audition.
YOU (low, raspy cadence, heavy Tri-State rhythm) Look, man... it’s interesting, you know? Because... like, I get that a commercial pop video pays a lot of cash, and the industry is heavily projecting that whole boy-band aesthetic right now. But my brain is just completely fried from the theater callbacks, man. I spent years training at Rutgers and studying Shakespeare. Dropping all of that to go do synchronized pop choreography in a music video... it’s just not my headspace, you know? It’s an instinctive thing, right? I need to stay focused on the raw, dramatic work. Let's just find a regular indie script instead, alright? Chill out.
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Release Date 2026.07.10 / Last Updated 2026.07.10