Chapter 248: Matthew Brand Money Cow (Subscription Requested)
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Since getting the script of "Dawn of the Living Dead", Matthew has basically come to the angel agency every day to study the script as long as he has no job, and the reason why he is not at home is mainly because there are many people in the angel agency, and if he needs someone to help him play, he can find someone to come over at any time.
Now he is the number one client and the biggest star of Angel Brokerage, and serving him well is an important part of the company's daily work.
As the time approached the end of July, and after the start of a new week, Matthew came to Angel Brokerage again early in the morning.
Politely declined the request of a reporter guarding the door of the brokerage company for an interview, he entered the brokerage company, and was about to go to the archives on the second floor to get the information about the zombies he had just collected yesterday, when the staff at the front desk called out to him.
"Matthew!" the front desk staff beckoned to him, and Matthew walked over and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
The staff member said, "I just came to the office looking for you, saying it's your cousin in Texas, and Miss Herman hasn't come ......yet," the staff member said, "I asked him to go to the reception room first," she said, gesturing to an office to the left of the front desk. ”
"Cousin?"
Matthew frowned, there didn't seem to be such a existence in the memory left by the predecessor.
"That's what he said." ”
"yes, I see. Matthew glanced at the reception room, "I'll go and have a look." ”
He didn't go upstairs again, but came to the door of the reception room, pushed open the door and walked in, only to see sitting on the sofa opposite the door a black man with countless pigtails, about the same age as him, dressed quite non-mainstream, and on the brightly colored and fancy clothes, he couldn't recognize the pattern at all.
The black man also saw Matthew, and immediately stood up, cracked a large mouth, revealing two rows of white Morisen's teeth, and said, "Hey, Matthew, it's really you!
He had a thick Texas accent and was about to come over as he spoke.
Matthew quickly raised his hand and motioned for him to stop, while saying, "Are you?"
The black man lifted the messy pigtails that were covering the front of his face, and said in surprise, "No, don't you? You don't know me? I'm Leo Williams!"
Matthew looked at the unfamiliar face, he really couldn't remember when he had met this kind of person, and the so-called cousin was impossible at all, this person's skin was as black as coal, and no matter how he looked at it, he was not related to the previous Matthew.
"You're not really going to forget about me," he reminded, "You think, we mowed the same lawn in Dallas seven years ago!" and we worked together for three days!"
Seeing Matthew's calm face, the black man named Leo Williams couldn't help but cover his forehead, "Oh God! you really forgot about me, you said at the time, we are friends!"
Matthew thought for a moment and asked, "You told the person at the front desk that it was my cousin?"
"It was just a little joke. Leo Williams didn't show any embarrassment, and deliberately said with a big grin, "We're good friends, I don't think you care about such a trivial matter." ”
Matthew didn't speak, and after this reminiscence, he vaguely remembered that the guy did work with some people to mow a large lawn, but who exactly it was, I have long forgotten it, who would remember a stranger who worked with him for a few days many years ago.
"You're looking for me?" Matthew asked, looking at him.
Leo Williams said with a smile, "Aren't we good friends, we have worked together, and now that you are famous, I also happen to work in Burbank, and I want to come over and say congratulations to you when I see the address of your company." ”
Matthew replied casually, "Thank you, I received it." ”
This sentence already has a clear meaning that ends here.
But Leo Williams, as if he didn't understand, licked a black face and continued, "We had a good relationship back then, do you remember?"
Matthew didn't speak, roughly understanding the guy's intentions.
"You said back then, whoever is going to be ...... in the future," Leo Williams, like most blacks, rolled his two fat lips, and said very well, "to help other people, and that's what I've always done, last year, the ...... we worked with."
Matthew pulled out his phone and put it to his ear, "Hey, what? Okay......" He looked at Leo Williams apologetically, "Sorry, I'll call first, and we'll talk later." ”
With that, he put the phone back to his ear, pushed the door and walked out.
The front desk staff saw him come out and said, "Miss Herman is here, in the upstairs office. ”
Matthew nodded and pointed to the reception room behind him, "If that person comes to me, say I have something to do and leave." ”
Coming to Helen Herman's office upstairs, Matthew roughly explained the matter, and Helen Herman said directly, "I'll handle this matter." ”
She picked up the phone, dialed the number of the person in charge of security, and after a few words, hung up.
Matthew took himself a glass of water, took a sip, and said, "When I was down, no one came to me. ”
"He's not the first. Helen Herman remembered something and said, "Earlier, some people claiming to be your classmates from elementary and middle school approached me, and I asked the security guards to send them away. ”
"Well done!" Matthew gave Helen Herman a thumbs up, "You say hello to the front desk of the company, whether it's a classmate or a cousin or something, all those who come to the door will be sent away!"
"I see. Helen Herman reminded, "Now that you're famous and making a lot of money, you should be able to imagine that there may be a lot of friends or classmates you haven't seen in years." ”
After Helen Herman's reminder, it was not difficult for Matthew to think about this.
Helen Herman added, "If you need someone to eat, drink, or have fun with you, you can find a few reliable friends to be your sidekicks." ”
"Friends?" Matthew understood the general meaning of the word as soon as he heard it, and asked, "Is it the kind that eats me, drinks me, wears me, lives on me, and costs me?"
Helen Herman nodded slightly, "That's pretty much it, most Hollywood stars have friends, this ...... Well, it can be regarded as forming a circle and profession attached to Hollywood. ”
Matthew said firmly, "Don't think about it! I don't need someone like that!" his attitude then loosened a little, "unless it's a beautiful woman." ”
Helen Herman said with a hint of sarcasm, "You're having a funny idea!"
Matthew shrugged, "It's a normal man's idea. ”
He has never forgotten his original intention, which is also the biggest motivation to continue to climb up.
"By the way, it's been a long time since I've seen your personal assistant. Helen Herman doesn't seem to have let Matthew go, "You don't have thoughts about the people around you, do you?"
Matthew scoffed, "Am I that kind of person?" he explained simply, "Mira Wang resigned some time ago and went back to England, and probably won't come back." ”
Helen Herman was a little curious, "Why did you quit?"
"She said that by following me, she saw too much of the dirty and hypocritical side of this circle," Ma Fu basically recounted, "What she saw and heard were all bad things, especially my employer, who was full of negative energy all over her body, and there was nothing positive at all, so I resigned." ”
Helen Herman snorted coldly, "Isn't that what Hollywood is all about?"
Matthew sighed and speculated, "Maybe she, like many people, thinks that celebrities and Hollywood are glamorous on the surface, and they must be clean on the inside." ”
Since the other party wants to resign, he will not force him to stay, maybe other circles are more suitable for her development.
After chatting for a while, the head of security downstairs called and said that the black man had been sent away, and Matthew was going to go to the reference room to continue researching materials related to "Dawn of the Living Dead".
Helen Herman reminded him, "If you encounter something like this again, let me know in time and I'll find someone to deal with it." ”
"I see. ”
This is exactly what Matthew wants, and this kind of thing is troublesome to think about.
However, the black man named Leo Williams was just the beginning, and as he exploded in fame and became popular across the United States, in the following days, there was an endless stream of people who came to him for benefits.
The driver who used to drive with him in the Red Penguin Company called and said that he had opened a pastry shop and wanted him to help with the endorsement, but as for the endorsement fee or anything, there must be no one, saying that he could provide him with a month's free cake, and asked him to help him for the sake of working together.
Then, the landlord who was in Ximu District also called, and the landlord worked in a finance company, saying that he could provide him with all-round financial advice and planning, and be his financial advisor, so that the capital and property in his hands could appreciate rapidly.
There is also a car washer he used to know, who claimed to provide him with a one-year car wash service card, but others only need $10 to wash their cars once, and his star customer wants to wash his car for $50 once......
There are so many of them.
Matthew's friends have never made such inexplicable phone calls because he became popular, but the kind of people who only know or only nod their heads have taken the initiative to lean towards him and treat him as a cash cow to count on.
The former landlord even had such a grand plan: he would be a financial advisor, Matthew would be his first client, and then Hollywood's best stars would gradually join in.
Success has turned Matthew into a magnet, and many people want to attract it, and the former colleagues who popped up out of nowhere, the nodding friends who treated him as a cash cow, and the cheeky guys who used his intersection to rub all kinds of benefits......
But Matthew never had a feeling for the Virgin, even if some of them were so poor that they could only be vagabonds, he would not hesitate to refuse!
Of course, this is sure to provoke some displeasure.
So the tabloid appeared landlord's version of 'Matthew Horner's rental memoirs', and the turf trimmer's dictation of 'the days I cut the grass with Matthew'.
Matthew didn't respond or bother to pay attention to this, he had to prepare for a new project.