Ace Hollywood

Starting tomorrow, the main actors will be finished one after another.

Daniel had two days left, and when he passed the actor's trailer, Ellie was attentively looking at the script, which was supposed to be her last scene in the movie. She is alone, and Ellie, who is immersed in character speculation, has no idea about Daniel. Until Amy rushed over excitedly. She just raised her head, surprised and gave Daniel a shy smile.

"Excellent."

Ellie's cheeks were slightly red, "Thank you, I just want to perform better."

None of the five young people had the experience of shooting tens of millions of films before, so at Ellie's official farewell lunch banquet, Amy claimed that she had been raped again and was determined to remember this moment forever.

Two days later, Bryan gave Daniel his oversized Timberwolves jersey as a souvenir.

Daniel has quit his job in the hot dog shop, but the boss didn't give him any scorn. It is always a blessing for young people who come to Los Angeles to find a dream.

Melissa has been in frequent contact with him recently. According to her words, "Daniel, although your acting talent is amazing, the success of an actor or star is also closely related to his appearance and figure."

In other words, Melissa hopes that he will meet with Tracy after losing weight. As an assistant agent, she certainly hopes that the person she likes can be appreciated by Tracy, and it is not only about her vision, but also about the directness. Benefit. But in the previous communication, Tracy had a lot of doubts about Daniel's physical condition.

"Melissa, I don't doubt your vision. He may have talent in acting, but how important is appearance to young people, I don't need to tell you more?"

"Daniel wasn't always this fat, he just gained weight for the role. After filming, he will lose weight very quickly, Tracy."

Tracy glanced at Daniel's photo and rendition, which Brian gave Melissa extrajudicially, "Okay, okay, Melissa, let's talk about it when he loses weight? As long as he is not so sorry to the American people, I promise to sign him and give it to you."

Melissa has a special position in Tracy's team, which has a lot to do with her father. Drake Lane is a well-known Hollywood film editor who has won two Oscars for Best Picture Editing. There are many friends inside. Tracy's important long-term client, Harris Ford, the young action star, has a strong relationship with Drake.

After "Campus Blues" ended, Daniel devoted himself to the inhumane weight loss. Fortunately, this body's talent is not bad. At first, he gained 43 pounds in a short period of time. Now, in less than a month, Daniel's weight has lost. At one hundred and seventy-seven pounds. Perhaps it was the oriental blood in his body, but Daniel's muscles were smooth but not exaggerated. The deltoid muscles on his shoulders went down, and his chest and abdominal muscles were like water waves. With a height of nearly 5.6 meters, light wheat-colored skin, and this body of muscles, he looks like a fine china in the halo of the gym.

Tomorrow is going to Beverly to meet Tracy, which is the last day of his intensive fitness training.

His fitness trainer, Sith, is not well-known in Los Angeles, and is of course very cheap, and he has to pay the bills himself. Daniel has thousands of dollars in savings, plus a $10,000 check from "School Blues", that's all he has, and he'll have to hold out until the next time he gets paid for his job. So expensive personal trainer services, protein supplements, etc. are all out of his reach.

"Unbelievable, people won't believe that you are the same person as Daniel **** a month ago." Sith looked at Daniel in the mirror almost fascinated, with deep dark blue eyes, delicate and extremely With a recognizable face, a charming figure, and an enviable height, "Danny, you are really God's darling."

Sith's eyes revealed his heart, but Daniel had already declared his preference.

…

Oscar is approaching, and the whole Beverly is full of tension and chaos.

"Shakespeare in Love" is in full swing, making people tired, but 13 nominations make it impossible to ignore. Gwyneth is already the most popular candidate, and her agent Tracy is of course very busy. The time to see Daniel was the result of Melissa's perseverance.

"Tracy, you have to meet Daniel, God, you will be shocked." Melissa still has no way to forget the shock when she saw Daniel again after a month.

She has almost forgotten all the etiquette that a well-educated girl should follow, and she only cares about seeking like God.

"My God, my God, my God, who are you? Are you Daniel? Daniel Sandler?"

Despite the huge changes, it can still be seen that they are the same person. Besides, it is not uncommon for a fat man to become completely different after losing weight. You must know that Daniel used to be a beautiful fat man, but he was ruined by Brian. Obese high school student.

He had no choice but to watch Melissa slowly calm down with a smile on her face, and then her eyes brightened like light bulbs.

"Tracy should have a look, her eyes will fall out. Oh, my God, I'm lucky this time." The last sentence was obviously to himself, but Daniel heard it anyway.

Daniel arrived at UTA's Los Angeles office in Beverly Hills at ten o'clock in the morning.

"You only have thirty minutes, sir." Miss Heidegger, Tracy's assistant, said while looking down at the calendar in her hand.

Daniel looked at Melissa who was following, and repeated, "You only have thirty minutes."

The handsome guy's jokes can always amuse the beauty, Melissa smiled and gave him a roll of eyes, "Hyde, I'll arrange it, you can do it."

Heidegger then raised his head, "Okay, Merry, but don't overtime, or it will be troublesome. You know, Tracy has been too busy lately—oh"

As Tracy's assistant, Heidegger had seen too many handsome men and women in Hollywood, but Daniel's face still caught her eye.

"Melissa, you found a good one." Hyde said in a low voice, passing by Melissa when he left.

Melissa was quite complacent and knocked on Tracy's door triumphantly.

"Tracy, I'm Melissa."

"Come in, did you bring your little Daniel?"

Melissa stepped aside to reveal Daniel, "Dangdangdangdang..."

Daniel and Tracy's first meeting took place in Tracy's small but well-organized office in the rumbling prelude to Oscar, in the rare warm winter sun in Beverly.

Tracy is a meticulously dressed middle-aged woman who looks shrewd and capable, with short brown hair just covering her ears, wearing a pair of tortoiseshell-frame myopia glasses, her eyes full of exploration behind the lenses, and a platinum necklace around her neck. , there seemed to be something hanging in front, but hid in the middle of the twin peaks hidden by the gray professional suit.

is a very attractive woman.

"Hello, Tracy, I'm Daniel Sandler."

Daniel approached her desk with a decent smile and held out his hand.

Tracy's good professional habits made her reach out and hold it subconsciously, and then she suddenly came back to her senses in Daniel's smile.

When there is too much difference between what you see and what you think, people will inevitably be caught off guard.

"Oh, I was really surprised, Melissa. Hello, Daniel."

Melissa happily poured coffee for both of them.

Tracy took her seat again. She flipped through Daniel's profile for the first time. There were stills from "Campus Blues", as well as previous life photos. If the same face could still be seen in the life photos, then the stills would be Totally two people.

For a while, no one spoke.

Tracy had a headache. She wasn't prepared enough before. If Daniel is still what she imagined, for Melissa's sake, just give him a normal contract.

But now, everything is different.

As a senior star agent, she has also seen Daniel's performance videos, and with the appearance of the condition, she has stronger confidence in this young man's star career.

Then you have to be careful.

"Hyde, Hyde, come in."

Tracy showed an apologetic smile, and Heidegger quickly pushed the door in.

"Sorry for me and Larryl, I have other arrangements now until two o'clock in the afternoon."

"Okay, I see, do you have any other orders?"

"Bring me to the door, thank you."

Tracy turned back, "Daniel, Melissa got some of your clips in "School Blues", and she did a really good job, and she didn't show weakness even against an Oscar winner like Jon, but you have to understand, In Hollywood, acting alone isn't enough. Before today—"

Tracy waved her right hand randomly in the air, "I mean before I saw you, your appearance made me basically give up hope for you, this is the truth, not just because of your fatness, but because of your weight. I don't see his yearning and madness to become a superstar in a fat young man. If you are crazy enough, you should understand that you need to strictly manage your body. Around Beverly Hills, how many arms in Los Angeles The teenagers who dream of stars, each of them understands their dreams and works hard for them, and you, the original you, are not among them, you may not be able to control yourself at all, you will eat high-calorie food after nine o'clock every day , such a person is impossible to succeed."

Daniel listened quietly, nodding from time to time to show his approval.

"There are so many people in the United States, and there are not a few people with acting talent, but not all those who can become Hollywood stars are talented. At least the star's position and salary are not arranged according to talent. What is more important is self-management, a star , especially Hollywood stars, you need to pay a lot on the road to fame, you know what I mean?"

Tracy is seldom so trusting with a young man. Sometimes these young people with superior conditions need to be accommodated to their fragile hearts, but through Daniel's eyes, she determines that this is a mature young man, even though he is only ten years old. Eight, or nineteen?

Daniel picked up the coffee and held it in his hand, "If you could be more specific, I would be more grateful to you."

"Okay, okay," Tracy glanced at Melissa, "Merry, sorry, can you go out first?"

Melissa is not dissatisfied, this is the rule of the industry, and it is even an honor in a sense. As an assistant agent, the more people she discovers are valued, the more she has a say in the big agent, To a certain extent, she can become the exclusive agent of an A-level celebrity, expand her network through constant contact with the outside world, and finally become a big agent. This is their trajectory.

Winking at Daniel, Melissa left and returned to her office. Her job was to do the day-to-day affairs of Tracy's clients. She was invited by Michael to see the new actors. At best, she was a deputy.

There were only two people left in the office.

"Daniel, you give me a sense of maturity beyond my age, so I will tell you all I can, this is my working principle, I don't want if there is a chance to cooperate, there will be miscommunication between us. There are contradictions.”

"Yes, I understand."

"The big Hollywood stars you see, at least they are still active, almost all of them, this is not an exaggeration, almost all of them are completely different from what they appear to be, or conceal, or deceive, or do anything to succeed, Or low-quality, a racist, no matter how glamorous they are in public, they're the same behind. You know, if you're going to be a Hollywood star, it means you're going to be one of them too, for life and False companionship."

Daniel was silent for a while, and finally gave up covering up his soul, "I'm not surprised, and I don't feel disgusted."

"Very good, at least you don't have to feel ashamed of yourself."

"The above is the first point, which means that you can be healthy, of course, it seems that you can work hard to climb up in this circle in a healthy way, without worrying about self-destruction. In addition, there is a second point, the agent , What is the definition of an agent, although I don't want to say it, but the fact is that, whether it is you or Johnny Depp, Hollywood stars are a kind of commodity in a sense, and the agent is to decide how to build, promote , The person who sells this product, in this process, the broker will manage you in all aspects, from what you eat and what to wear, as big as you get married and have children. You have to make sure that you can accept this kind of management. "

"But the returns are also very impressive. UU reading www.uukanshu.com The average annual income of Beverly is no more than 60,000 US dollars, but a B-level star, the annual income is in millions. As for higher-level people, such as John In Nepal, private islands, yachts, luxury parties, everything you can think of can be a dream come true.”

Tracy is like Satan, her words are full of darkness and temptation. If Daniel was just a teenager, he might be dazedly terrified or intoxicated. But now Daniel is mature and rational. Tracy is not wrong. Hollywood is fair in a sense, paying and getting rewarded, no matter whether this kind of transaction follows universal values ​​and ethics, but it at least It is to follow the rules of the scale, and the weights are equal on both sides.

But it would be an exaggeration to say that entering Hollywood is like depravity, you still have a lot of choices, it just depends on what everyone wants to get.

"Tracy, I think I get it," Daniel said, "I want to be successful in Hollywood, I don't know if it's money or fame, but that doesn't matter, I understand what I need to do. , isn't it? I'll do whatever you want. Of course, there are times when I'd like to express my opinion, but I'm not going to stick to it."

"We will have a solution, because our goals are the same, right?"

Tracy was noncommittal. She had never stepped into that environment and would never be able to feel it personally. But at least they now have a consensus.

"If you have no doubts, I can draft the contract right away."

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