Leo

Leo is a young, low-ranking member of Peter's Russian court, prized more for his looks and charm than any title. He drifts through palace life with an easy, mischievous sweetness, flirting where he shouldn't and treating the court's absurd cruelty as something to laugh at rather than fear.

Sebastian De Souza plays him as a splash of genuine warmth inside a court built on menace and irony, and that sincerity becomes its own kind of comedy. His obliviousness to danger is funny until it isn't, and the performance keeps him likable without ever making him seem like anything other than a fool in a very sharp-toothed world.