After hanging up the phone, Big Guy put away his ingratiating smile and plopped down onto the chair, which let out a series of creaking, terrifying noises, as if it might collapse under him at any moment.

“Damn business!” Big Guy rubbed his face, stiff from smiling, and muttered under his breath, “It’s all this kind of low-level business!”

He always felt that the company’s temp actor business was beneath his abilities. After working here for nearly a year, not a single film the company had worked on had ever been widely released in theaters; they were all the kind of stuff that went straight to the videotape market. The TV drama business was a bit better, but that was always tightly controlled by the boss, and he never got a chance to get involved.

Ring ring ring—

The phone on the desk started ringing.

“Hello…” He picked up the receiver. “This is Starlight Company’s Dennis Cooper.”

“Ah, hello.” A somewhat unfamiliar voice came from the other end. “Are you Mr. Dennis Cooper?”

“That’s me!” He thought some business was coming his way.

“I’m Matthew Carter.” Dennis Cooper didn’t remember this name. “An actor who registered with you some time ago.”

Hearing this, Dennis Cooper immediately understood—this wasn’t business, just some daydreaming loser. “What do you want?”

His voice now carried a hint of impatience.

“It’s like this, I got a temp actor job with a crew and need an agent to sign the contract.”

Dennis Cooper was a little interested. “How many contracts?”

“One!”

Hearing this answer, Dennis Cooper’s brief interest vanished without a trace. Running around for a single temp actor? How much money could that possibly bring in?

“Mr. Dennis Cooper?” The person on the other end, probably hearing no response, started urging, “Are you still there?”

Suddenly, his cell phone rang. Dennis Cooper glanced at it and saw it was a casting director he did business with. He immediately set the receiver aside and, seeing the Youngster who had just joined the company last month sitting idly at the desk across from him, waved him over and said in a world-weary tone, “I’ve got a business call here, you handle it.”

The younger agent took the receiver and started talking.

Dennis Cooper answered his cell phone, but before he could say anything, an angry voice exploded from the other end, “Dennis Cooper, what the hell are you doing? I asked for cheap non-union actors! Not expensive union actors! Why are there union members among the actors you contacted? If I wanted union members, wouldn’t I just go to the actors’ union myself? Why would I need you!”

“Sorry!” Dennis Cooper hurriedly apologized, “Sorry! Maybe my assistant made a mistake…”

He didn’t have any assistant; he was just shifting the blame.

“Tomorrow morning!” he promised, “Tomorrow morning, I’ll definitely send you suitable actor profiles!”

The other side cursed a few more times, and Dennis Cooper could only listen. After hanging up, he sat in his chair, rolling his eyes in frustration.

“Wait, I want to confirm something!”

The young agent across from him spoke up, “Are you saying you got a job with the crew of ‘Girl, Interrupted,’ directed by James Mangold and starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie?”

“What?” Dennis Cooper was stunned. “James Mangold? Winona Ryder? Angelina Jolie? ‘Girl, Interrupted’?”

How could these big names be connected to that Little Extra whose name he couldn’t even remember?

If he remembered correctly, this Sony Columbia Pictures film had a budget of forty million dollars! Not only him and his temp actors—even the company boss couldn’t get close to that level!

Could there be a mistake? Dennis Cooper found it hard to believe.

“Yes!” The faint voice from the other end was very certain. “This job was recommended by Miss Jolie.”

Jolie? Angelina Jolie? Dennis Cooper shot to his feet with a speed completely at odds with his fat body, rushed straight across, grabbed the phone receiver, ignored the anger in Youngster’s eyes, and said loudly, “Sorry, I had to take a call just now. I’m your agent, Dennis Cooper.”

Youngster saw Big Guy being so shameless and wanted to say something in anger, but wilted under the other’s threatening gaze and seniority.

“Hello, I’m Matthew Carter.” The person on the other end seemed completely unaware of what was going on. “Can you represent me?”

Dennis Cooper immediately said, “Yes! Of course I can!”

For an agent, this kind of business was nothing special, but being able to represent this job meant he could interact with people like Angelina Jolie and the ‘Girl, Interrupted’ crew—people at a level he’d never had access to before!

Not just him—even the whole company had never gotten close to this level.

This was like a stepping stone—a key to open the door to higher-level business!

Only a fool would want to represent temp actors forever and stay in a dead-end company like this.