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Before Sebastián made it big on Amazon Prime, he worked on many Mexican soap operas and films. "When I was in college in Miami, there was an open casting for a movie in Mexico. I decided to go, and I landed the lead role," says Sebastián. "I landed the role without ever studying acting." As he got more serious about his acting career, he decided to go to Los Angeles to study at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute. "I really decided to make this my career. Ángel Caído was the first one I ever did. It almost took eight years to come out," says Sebastián. "That movie ran out of money. Then, I went to do a shoot, and that's when I found out I was pretty good at getting money. So, I got the money for the movie from investors and that's how I got a production credit. That's how the production idea started. En nombre del amor was Sebastián's first main role on a soap opera. At the time, he was 22 years old, and he got a call from the network. "They saw a trailer of this movie, but the movie [Ángel Caído] never came out. I went into the office, they gave me the script to see if I liked it, and I decided to do it. It was intense because I was coming from a theater background." Suddenly, Sebastián had four cameras pointing at him and was filming fifty scenes a day. "It was very different from what I had studied. The producer was nervous that I wasn't going to make it. We have in-ears in Mexico, and I couldn't use it --you have to learn to use them. They are feeding you everyone's lines." Sebastián told the producer he wanted to go by memory, but memorizing 40 sheets a day was very hard. For a month, Sebastián tried going by memory, then the producer gradually gave him more scenes every day. In his free time, Sebastián learned to be comfortable with the in-ear during filming. For the next few years, Sebastián moved from one soap opera to the next. He was in Corazón Salvaje, La Impostora, and Lo Imperdonable to name a few. Then, he began to work in films more, appearing in Amor de mis Amores, Una Selfie, 3 Idiotas, Todo Mal. But Sebastián always knew he wanted to do something else. He wanted to make his own rules and make his own content, which is how his production company, Addiction House, was born. And so Cómo Sobrevivir Soletero was launched under his production company. The project is very close to him, since the mini-series has many scenes inspired by Sebastián's own life and experiences. "It came from me going on a guy's trip to this beach," he says. "One of my friends saying that he had different ideas on how we had to flirt with the women there. He ended up getting us in trouble the entire weekend. And the amount of stupid things that happened, all because we were all trying to be different than we are, just became comical. One of my friends got arrested for hooking up on the beach. And then, he gave his shoes to the police officer to not get arrested. Another went skinny dipping with a girl and some people stole all his clothes from the beach. They were naked all night and had to go to the girl's hotel room, where her brother was, and borrow clothes. It was just crazy," says Sebastián.