The meeting with Michael is destined to be disappointed, in fact, this should not come as a surprise to Daniel, if there is a better candidate, it is obvious that Melissa will not be the only one on the set.

"As much as I ask you to think about it, Tracy is already a good choice." Michael was slightly embarrassed, "I don't know much about this. Some of CAA's friends aren't particularly well-known either. ”

Strong agents are no longer so keen on newcomers, Hollywood's golden age for actors is over, and although superstars like Tom Cruise still have a strong voice, actors are no longer as important as they used to be. This directly leads to the fact that agents don't need to contact the actors at the beginning, in order to leave them with a friendship when they were not established.

Now the common practice of top agents is that instead of spending energy on new actors, it is better to wait for them all to grow, after all, actors will always need agents, and they, these powerful agents, can provide the necessary high-quality resources for the actor's career to go further.

This is the biggest reason why it is extremely difficult for a small brokerage company to succeed.

When the phone rang from Tracy, Daniel was already about to surrender. It's not that he didn't think about impressing investors with the few movies he remembered in his head, and then embarked on another path, but now he is famous, has no connections, and film projects rarely make investors cry to invest at first sight. In that way, he is no different from those who are holding a script and waiting for investors to favor him. Even if he knew in his heart that the movie would inevitably succeed, which dreamer didn't think so? Rather than wait hopelessly like that, it is better to accept Tracy's arrangement.

But in the end, Daniel's reluctance made him determined to put it off a little longer. The contract hasn't been read yet, and it's a good excuse.

This is the first time Daniel feels his own sense of insignificance and powerlessness, and his more than ten years of acting experience in China have hardly played any role in this regard, and the difference between the film circles on both sides of the Pacific Ocean is too great. In addition, having to ask for help from the only few friends he only had also made him very embarrassed and uncomfortable.

The first call to give him hope came from...... Ellie Rattle.

Ellie's voice sounded much better, perhaps to help Daniel give her a more convincing explanation of her choice, and see, if I didn't, I would be like Daniel.

"You mean the male protagonist of "The Grim Reaper"?"

The crew of "Death is Coming" does lack a leading actor, not because they can't find a suitable candidate, but because there are too many candidates, the movie is script-driven, and almost completely relies on the hints and clues set by the script, which means that there are no performance requirements for the actors. From the first round of auditions to the present, from directors to producers to investors, there have been countless phone calls.

Daniel knew that even if he went to audition, he didn't have much hope, but he decided to give it a try.

The audition was arranged very quickly, and Daniel soon met the producer to whom Ellie had committed, and to be honest, bald and slightly chubby, it didn't look so disgusting.

The audition performance is also very simple, just a panicked performance in the face of the hints of death.

Daniel didn't know if he was too sensitive, and the producers looked at him with something meaningful.

Soon he got the answer, and on the night he returned from the audition, a young man named Devin walked into the producer's room.

This is also what Ellie told him, and Ellie's later words are the producer's hint to him: he is more interested in Daniel than in Devine.

He was so shocked that he almost threw away the phone, and then even laughed, "God, he's such a great man, what a kill!" ”

"To hell with it, I admit it, Tracy is Tracy, I'll sign it with her the next time I call, damn it."

After Daniel vented, he lay on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

He used to be dismissive of the darkness of Hollywood, believing it to be nothing more than a pretext for losers. In his detached vision, the future should be bright, with a box office hit and numerous awards.

That's a joke.

This is not China, and he is no longer a significant figure.

Here, he is one of those losers, the one who is completely obscured by the dark shadows of Hollywood.

What can you do if you are an ass seller? Just get out of this maddening situation, don't you? Daniel even reversed such thoughts.

Of course, this is beyond his bottom line after all.

Daniel was silent in the rental house for two days, until the phone rang again, and he calmly and resignedly answered, "Trey—"

"Hello, Mr. Sandler."

"Huh?"

"Hello, we have a relationship with the crew of "The Grim Reaper", I'm Kusa Damon."

Daniel remembered that he seemed to have brought another actor to the audition, an actress, not very important role, and when the assistant director auditioned, he was waiting outside, and by the way, he had a few words with Daniel.

"Hello, Kusa."

Kusa made an offer, and Daniel had no intention of refusing.

The two met at the Blue Jasmine Cafe.

"You look a lot more emaciated than you did the other day." Cusa stirred the sugar cubes, and he didn't seem to intend to start the conversation gradually, but seemed a little aggressive, "Isn't it baptized by the rules of Hollywood?" Terra's old pervert habits, I know very well. You should be good for him, but now it looks like you're refusing. ”

Daniel surprisingly doesn't have much affection.

"I've been in the industry for three years, and because I don't want to be an assistant to a big agent, I've been bringing in new people, some of them are very smart, they get some opportunities with their bodies, and then they kick me, while others can't accept that their Garden of Eden is actually a brothel and choose to leave Hollywood." But it seems to me that you are neither, that you have no intention of selling yourself and that you have no intention of leaving here because there are some not-so-good options? ”

This is a keen person.

"What do you want to do?" Daniel crossed his fingers on his chin, "Mr. Damon, what is your purpose?" ”

"Sign you."

Daniel laughed.

"What else do you have besides the CAA's signboard, Kusa? Don't call me mean, because I just found out that this is the lingua franca of Hollywood. ”

"No, of course not. I'm sure you have options that look better than I am, but aren't good enough, can you tell me? ”

"Why not? Tracy Jacobs, do you know her? If I meant to, I would have been a UTA guy a few days ago. ”

"Johnny Depp?" Cusa's tone changed from skeptical to certain, "Tracy's ace repulsed you?" I'm curious, how do you know. It stands to reason that such information should not be something that a newcomer can hear. ”

"Kusa, why?"

Kusa Damon turned his coffee cup, the first time he saw Daniel, he thought he was a young man with unlimited potential, of course, his appearance was outstanding enough, but there was also an unspeakable quality, in Sue Kusa, this boy without an agent would give him a big surprise, so he asked for some information from the crew and contacted Daniel.

He was actually taken by Tracy Jacobs.