Mark *New Role

About the Job

MARK (30s) Presents at first as gangly, eager, and just a bit dorky — the type who has memorized every “how to be likable” tip from YouTube but can’t quite embody them naturally. On the surface, he’s a niche-travel influencer calling himself the “Speakeasy Seeker,” armed with POV glasses, branded lanyards, and a relentless need to prove he belongs in the creator ecosystem. His energy is a blend of nervous enthusiasm and twitchy insecurity, the kind of overeager charm that teeters between endearing and invasive. At first, he’s almost like comic relief — a quirky meet-cute for Sav — but as his obsessive tendencies emerge, he shades toward unsettling. Mark’s arc is one of gradual collapse: he begins as a socially awkward collaborator, becomes a plausible predator when his darker footage surfaces, and ends as a pawn. Casting requires someone who can embody both sides of this spectrum: awkwardly sweet yet faintly menacing, capable of flipping from nerdy likability to tragic creep. Think Jesse Eisenberg’s twitchy intellect in The Social Network, Riz Ahmed’s nervy intensity in Nightcrawler, GaTa’s offbeat charm in Dave, Karan Soni’s nervous, rapid-fire awkwardness in Miracle Workers, or Adam Driver’s strange charisma in early Girls. The role calls for a performer who can keep the audience off balance, making them wonder: is he an earnest misfit who got in over his head, or a quietly dangerous obsessive who deserved to be consumed by Sav’s legend?