Rayan Hamda Barhoumi: building a universe from instinct and intensity,

From the moment an acting instructor handed him a symbolic “Molière,” Rayan Hamda Barhoumi understood something elemental: performance wasn’t an experiment anymore. It was direction. It was vocation. It was the world he had unconsciously been orbiting until instinct pulled him into its gravity.

His journey—from digital systems student to actor, writer, musician, and creator of the conceptual action-drama Jackrabbit—is marked by a rare blend of raw emotional honesty and analytical precision. Rayan builds characters the way some people build machines: from the wiring outward, studying how trauma functions like corrupted data and how hope, silence, and fear create emotional logic.

Below, he opens his universe—its origins, its risks, its rhythms, and the philosophy that shapes his evolving craft.

THE MOMENT EVERYTHING SHIFTED

“It wasn’t a decision—I recognized it as the direction my life had been waiting for.”

Rayan’s turning point arrived unexpectedly inside the workshop Parole en Scène. With no training behind him, he stepped into an improvised scene and watched a new version of himself take form. The silence afterward—the instructor’s stunned pause—sealed it.

“That silence told me I had reached something truthful, even without technique.”

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The symbolic “Molière” he received that day did more than acknowledge potential. It marked a line between who he thought he could be, and who he already was.

BUILDING CHARACTERS LIKE SYSTEMS

“Trauma behaves like corrupted data influencing behavior patterns.”

Rayan’s technical background shapes his acting instincts. Digital systems taught him structure, causality, layered problems—tools he now applies to psychology. In Jackrabbit, character design became a form of programming: emotional inputs, outputs, and hidden variables mapping Rogue Majedri’s inner conflict.

Even without cameras rolling, he approached Rogue as if the performance were hours away.

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“Acting doesn’t begin on set; it begins the moment you define a character’s truth.”

He wrote, world-built, self-directed, and constructed an emotional architecture precise enough that performance could grow naturally inside it.

JACKRABBIT AND THE WEIGHT OF ABSOLUTE FREEDOM

“I wanted to know what pure creativity means—no shortcuts, no outside help.”

Jackrabbit became Rayan’s laboratory. No funding, no AI, no team. Just responsibility—every scene, every silence, every choice resting entirely on him.

Letting Rogue Majedri fail was the boldest narrative decision he made. Not cinematic failure—human failure.

Embrace inevitable risks

“Letting the protagonist make irreversible mistakes was essential for authenticity.”

The project taught him something fundamental: that the actor is inseparable from the story’s emotional physics. Total control sharpened his understanding of rhythm, intention, breath, and restraint.

“When you write the world, you realize how much responsibility the actor has toward the entire story.”

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Jackrabbit project

RHYTHM, TRAUMA, AND THE INFLUENCE OF COX, BERNTHAL, AND LYTCHEESS

“Cox shows the power of restraint. Bernthal shows the power of pain.”

Rayan draws heavily from two actors whose emotional precision shaped modern screen performance:

Charlie Cox, for silence, nuance, and vulnerability beneath control

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Jon Bernthal, for physicalized trauma and moral weight

“I believe I am like Cox; I see myself in him.”

His work as Lytcheess, composing cinematic electronic soundscapes, feeds into his dramatic instincts. Scenes start as music—tension, release, pulse.

Echoes ignite curiosity

“I often hear the emotion before I write or perform it.”

Even gaming shapes him. His persona Lytch Boonyasak, inspired by Dead by Daylight’s Vee Boonyasak, reflects his fascination with survival psychology, silence, and internal damage.

THE ROAD AHEAD: LEGACY, BILINGUAL MASTERY, AND THE DREAM ROLE

“Success will be the moment I can look at a role and say: ‘This is me at my purest level of truth.’”

Rayan’s aspirations are ambitious but grounded. He sees bilingual mastery not as a career tool but as freedom—two emotional systems available for performance. He wants to train in the U.S., blending Adler’s imagination-driven work with Meisner’s behavioral truth.

And his dream role?

“Emotionally damaged but resilient. Physically grounded. Psychologically layered.”

Something between a survivor, vigilante, and eccentric misfit—a character built from cracks rather than perfection.

If he ever appears as a Survivor in Dead by Daylight, that would be his personal full-circle moment:

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“The kid who played for escape and expression became the artist he always wanted to be.”