My worst moment: Jessica Lu on battling for a parking spot before an audition

CHICAGO - On the new NBC drama "Reverie," Jessica Lu plays the CEO of a virtual reality company that offers a service that more or less functions as a vacation from real life. "People can fully customize their experience to their wildest dreams or desires, which are so lifelike and realistic that some users don't want to leave - and that's the problem," Lu said. "If they stay in too long, their physical bodies will start to shut down. And that's when we as a company enlist the help of a former hostage negotiator who goes into these users' reveries and convinces them to leave their virtual fantasy worlds before it's too late."

The technology in real life is advancing so rapidly, she said, "so of course it seems really scary. But I do think it can be useful and help us. I went to Sundance last