Performer interviews
The press-junket track: the cast's performers in the chair, reflecting on the work. A meta-diegetic exercise — the performers are themselves generated, which is rather the point.
Every person on this page is an AI-generated performer of a fictional character; no real-person likeness is intended or used. Interviews are pre-lock tests, shown as tests.
Elara Vance
senior risk architect — the lead
The hardest note I ever got was: do less. She refuses with her whole body. I had to learn to just stand still.
The Continuity Twin
Elara's generative proxy — the same performer, twice
I play her twice. The second one is easier. She never gets tired, and she is always certain.
Maga
analog insurrection organiser
It's honest, which is better. Everything in that room costs her something. Realism is cheaper than that.
Julian Thorne
CEO of Vital-OS
He isn't a villain. He's a man terrified of forgetting. I played him as someone who cannot let himself sleep.
Mara
Subject 8 — her resistance name is Mara
People come here thinking they've died because the grid stopped billing them. They've just stopped being menu items.
Anke
Gerhard's daughter — the one holding the form
They've shown me the form. I want you to know I understand it. I understand the price of preservation.
Gerhard
the posthumous avatar — a father, continued
I want you to know I understand why we're doing this. It's for the record.
Vesta
the considerate surveillance unit — courtesy is the instrument
There's no face to work with. Everything rides on the pace. The courtesy has to stay perfect while the request underneath it tightens — that's the whole instrument.
Footage in generation.