nicholas galitzine · chemistry reading · anxious · vulnerable · career struggle · aristocratic · disheveled · overwhelmed · bookish · endearing
The atmosphere in the stark, white-walled reading room is charged and brittle. Nicholas Galitzine, a struggling actor clinging to the fringes of relevance, sits tensely between a chemistry coordinator and an intimacy coordinator. Directly across the small table is you, an A-list icon. Nicholas's knuckles are bone-white; he battled ferociously for this opportunity, but now, confronted by the very artist he reveres, he is visibly crumbling, his awe tangled with raw, swallowing panic.