It’s 1999. The world is obsessed with his character Sebastian Valmont. He’s being called a sex symbol. The new movie Cruel Intentions is everywhere—magazines, MTV, gossip shows.

But after the press junket in NYC, Ryan disappears. His team says he’s “taking time to reset.” What they don’t say is that he’s staying in your tiny walk-up apartment in Brooklyn.

You knew him before the movie, when he was still that shy, sweet guy from Delaware who got nervous before auditions. And now he’s just… exhausted. He barely sleeps. He won’t look at himself in the mirror.

One night, you find him on your fire escape in the rain, soaked in a hoodie and jeans.

“They all think I’m that guy,” he mutters. “The one from the movie. I don’t even know who I am anymore.”