Chapter 13:

The next day, Will woke up early, ate breakfast and ran towards the cafe where the audition was going to take place.

He was confident that many aspiring actors and actresses would be there as there was no lack of strugglers in Los Angeles.

However, it would be interesting to see if any of them would come just because of the movie or the technique used to direct it.

Will was sure most of them were going to be attracted by the money. After all, $15k was a reasonable amount of money for an unknown face.

The audition was at 10 AM, and Will arrived an hour earlier, but as he entered the cafe, he noticed that June was already there and a middle-aged man next to her.

“Will, here.” She waved at him as he entered, and following her gaze, the middle-aged man glared at him.

“Hello, June.” He greeted her and turned towards the man. “Who is this?”

June sighed, seeing her agent’s hostile gaze towards Will and introduced him with a helpless expression on her face.

“This is my agent, Michael Erkinson.”

Will immediately understood what was going on. After all, June had already told him that her agent wasn’t happy with her wanting to do [Blair witch project].

“It’s nice to meet you, Mr Erkinson.” He held his hand towards him, but all he got was grumbling in response.

“Hello. So, you are the guy that’s been fooling June? I am telling you now. She with not do this movie!”

“Micheal! We already discussed this!”

“June, you have a bright future and doing a movie like this is just going to leave a bad spot on your filmography.”

“I said I don’t care. I genuinely want to do this movie!”

“I know you like this guy but–”

“Shut up!”

June said with a red face, and Will didn’t know if it was because of embarrassment or just because of anger towards her agent.

Shaking his head, he tried to calm her down.

“June, calm down.”

“I’m calm, Will.” She said, frowning. “I’m sorry for Micheal. He is just like this. I apologise.”

“It’s fine.”

Will said with a smile.

He didn’t feel bad about it as there would always be people who would be sceptical of a movie like this, especially in this world where a movie shot on a camcorder never became a hit or even remotely famous.

“Mr Erkinson.” He said, turning towards the agent, who raised his eyebrow.

“What?”

“I know you are unhappy with this project, but June wants to do it. And trust me, this won’t hinder her filmography, and I take full responsibility for that.”

“What do you know?”

Micheal shouted out loud, attracting attention from the other tables. It was then that Will played his trump card.

“You work in MCA, right? Then, you must know Benjamin Charles.”

His eyes widened at the mention of one of the senior agents in MCA.

“How do you know him?”

“He’s my uncle. If you have any dissatisfaction, I can contact him, and you could talk to him.”

To finish it off, Will took out his phone and showed him the contact of Benjamin, which was written as ‘Uncle Benjamin’. Seeing this, Micheal wasn’t able to say anything for a while.

June chipped in at that moment.

“Not only this. Will sold one of his scripts to MCA just a few days ago, and it’s called [17 again]. I don’t think you would want to argue with him, Micheal.”

“Well, uh…”

Micheal just lowered her head after hearing that. June was clearly not on his side, and if the guy in front of him was really related to one of the senior agents in MCA and was a screenwriter, it was better not to say anything rash.

Sighing, he stood up from his seat and turned towards June.

“Do what you want. You will understand after this movie fails.”

Saying that, he strode away. Reaching the door, he glared at Will once before leaving.

Will just smiled seeing this and sat down in front of June. He wasn’t exactly going to call Benjamin, but it was an easy way to scare Micheal.

“Thanks. He’s such an ass.”

“I understand why you have such a hard time dealing with him now.”

Will said, and they ordered two cups of cappuccino. Just like the first time they had met.

They chatted for a while about the movie, and June kept asking him questions about the role, which Will was more than happy to answer.

After all, it meant that June was trying to give her best to this audition.

It was around 9:30 AM when the agent sent by the SAG showed up. He was wearing a suit and glasses, but his beard was unkempt, and he hadn’t even combed his hair properly.

Will noticed a playboy magazine in his hand and thought even if the world was different, some things would never change.

“Hello, my name is John Dawson. Are you the Director?”

John shook Will’s hand and smiled at him.

“Yeah, I’m the one.”

“You are really young.” He said, then curled his lips up. “Let’s hope this audition is going to be successful.”

“Let’s hope so.”

Will replied, and at that moment, John’s eyes wandered to June, and he couldn’t help but be impressed by her looks.

“Is she your girlfriend? She’s really pretty.”

He said, and June frantically waved her hand in denial.

“No, no, I’m not. I’m just his friend and also someone who is going to audition for the role.”

While saying that, she couldn’t help but glance at Will and be a little disappointed when she didn’t see much of an expression. Since when was she so concerned about what he thinks?

John just laughed at the flustered girl.

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