The Ungovernable Body

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.

Disclosure

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.

In the chair
Testimony

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.

In the chair
Testimony

Maga

analog insurrection organiser

It's honest, which is better. Everything in that room costs her something. Realism is cheaper than that.

In the chair
Testimony

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.

In the chair
Testimony

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.

In the chair
Testimony

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.

In the chair
Testimony

Gerhard

the posthumous avatar — a father, continued

I want you to know I understand why we're doing this. It's for the record.

In the chair
Testimony