Joseph took a deep breath, re-outlined the smile at the corner of his mouth, raised his head and looked at Hugo in front of him carefully, as if today was the first time the two of them met. This look made Hugo frown, pulled the corner of his mouth and said, "Are you suddenly possessed by an alien?"

Joseph was immediately amused by Hugo and laughed out loud. He shook his head, "I just thought, I am obviously your agent, I am three years older than you, but why do you comfort me every time you encounter difficulties? You are just persuading me?"

Looking back on the past, it seems like this many times. In the dilemma, Hugo always takes the lead in cheering up, then regains strength, and holds the possibility of hope to achieve in his own hands. In Hugo, Joseph learned a lot, which is also what Joseph thought the most magical.

You should know that in Hollywood, the fame and fortune world, it is never easy for artists who are shrouded in the spotlight to maintain a sober rationality. Therefore, more often, the agent is the bystander who pours cold water and then becomes the helm behind the artist. But Hugo obviously is not the case. It seems that after experiencing the ups and downs of 1991, after the Golden Raspberry Award, Hugo became another person, refreshed his heart, and then got to the present step by step.

If you think about it carefully, all the turning points began with the Golden Raspberry Award. Joseph's long-lasting memory awakened the deepest thoughts.

Hugo naturally didn't know what Joseph was thinking, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but outline a shallow curve. If Joseph had experienced such an incredible thing as time travel like him, although it was just a transfer of the soul, it seemed that life had obtained a second chance, then Joseph would definitely cherish this opportunity like him.

"Joe, you know, I entered this circle since I was fourteen or fifteen. Although I didn't want to reach the top like Macaulay Culkin, I still experienced many things, I lost, I was brilliant, and I had doubts. So, when I wandered around the critical moment of life and death, my mind suddenly became clear. I knew what I wanted, and I was willing to fight and fight for it."

This is Hugo's own truth. In addition to the fact that time travel has been concealed, this is the most real thought in the depths of Chen Hugo and Lancaster's souls.

"Comfort you? Persuad you?" Hugo smiled and shook his head, "No, I just kept encouraging myself, or self-hypnosis. It is a day to look at problems negatively, and it is a day to face difficulties optimistically and positively. I just chose the latter."

Hugo's simple words made Joseph chuckled. Indeed, on the night of the Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony, Hugo survived death because of poison. After struggling on the brink of life and death, Hugo began to choose the path of actively facing a bleak life. Along the way, even the greatest difficulties did not make Hugo retreat. This is true, whether it was the challenge to acting in "Schindler's list" or the breakthrough of physical and psychological limits in "life and death speed".

Inexplicably, Joseph remembered the period when Hugo Ring. Poisoning. Perhaps, from that time on, Hugo had unswervingly embarked on a completely different path.

"No matter what you say, the fact is that when you reach your position today, you work far more than my job." Joseph said calmly, without any reluctance, no complaints, no regrets, just admitting this fact frankly, "Don't say anything more, you and I know that this is the fact." Although Joseph did not look at Hugo, he also knew that with Hugo's personality, he would definitely comfort himself, so he took the initiative to speak, and he heard Hugo's chuckle, "I have thought about it seriously. No matter whether I have the potential of an agent, but for the moment, I still need to continue working hard."

Joseph turned to look at Hugo and said with a smile, "So I thought, maybe this time is an opportunity, let me recognize my own opportunity. If Cage and the others could leave, maybe I would start working hard again. So, I didn't save them, and I didn't do any emergency measures."

At this moment, Joseph also figured out that everything is one and two sides. Maybe it seems like a bad situation on the surface, but maybe it is actually an opportunity to start a new beginning. Just like Hugo's Golden Raspberry Award.

Hugo looked at Joseph, and he didn't know what to say. After all, he knew too little about the work of an agent, so he naturally could not understand the difficulty of seeking a balance among many jobs when an agent had three or more artists at the same time.

"Do you know? Actually, before signing Matt and Ben, I was the only artist, and I was more comfortable. I enjoyed the time I didn't have to work in the office." At this point, Joseph laughed, "So sometimes I wonder if I am not suitable to be an agent, maybe I am more suitable to be an agent's secretary, or an assistant like Samora."

Hugo was also amused by Joseph when he was sitting there, but as he smiled, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind: Why can't Joseph become his manager?

In fact, in the past two years, Joseph has been more like Hugo's manager than an agent. Joseph handles all kinds of miscellaneous things around Hugo to ensure that Hugo can focus on his work; when the script comes in, Joseph will first read it, then hand it over to Hugo, and finally Hugo will make the decision. This is also the way the manager and artist get along.

As Joseph said, if he is an agent, he will first choose himself and then recommend him to the artist, and arrange his acting career according to the agent's plan; but if he is a manager, he will take the script from the agent, read and review the preliminary reading and review, and inform the artist of his own ideas, and finally the artist will make the decision. Obviously, the way Joseph and Hugo get along with each other in the past was the latter.

Generally speaking, agents are interests first, with the interests of the company and their own interests as the priority. There are many actors under the agent. He hopes that all his actors can achieve good results, just like the situation when Joseph had four actors after July last year. But obviously, it can be seen that Joseph is not a qualified agent, which is also the reason why Joseph has self-doubt.

But the manager is slightly different. Managers can also be said to be interests first, but he prioritizes the interests of artists. All his interests are completely linked to artists. Managers must wholeheartedly consider their artists, fight with agents, fight with production companies, and fight with the media. All actions are ultimately for their artists. Before July last year, the cooperative relationship between Joseph and Hugo was more like this, and Joseph did a good job.

Of course, due to the intimate relationship between managers and artists, trust is the most important part, which is also the reason why most artists choose their relatives to serve as managers. If there is a difference between managers and artists and it is irreconcilable, this will be the biggest blow to artists. If the agent is not good, you can change it at any time; but if the manager has problems, it is fatal.

Macaulay Culkin is the most typical example of Hollywood. After becoming famous by relying on "Home Imperials", although his parents were nominees as agents, their real identity was managers. They completely regarded Macaulay as a money-making machine, which led to Macaulay becoming a big shot at a young age, and even getting into poison, alcohol too early. At the same time, it also made major production companies stay away from Macaulay, directly destroying all the career prospects of this actor, the greatest child star in Hollywood history.

To a certain extent, managers can be regarded as artists’ first protective net or spokesperson for external parties.

Joseph actually mentioned the manager to Hugo since the end of 1992, but Hugo has never found a suitable candidate, of course, on the one hand, it is because the manager was not the top priority at the beginning, after all, Hugo has not reached a sufficient level.

It is not that simple to find a partner whom he trusts and can handle all acting affairs. Hugo cannot find a suitable partner, because Hugo entered Hollywood at the age of fourteen, with only a handful of friends, and Yale University alumni are not close to each other.

But now, Joseph is obviously the best choice.

It is natural for Joseph to be completely familiar with acting affairs. At the same time, Joseph's current connections and crisis abilities have been proven. Recently, Joseph's current methods and vision can be seen through Tracy's recent series of methods of dealing with Tracy.

But what about the most important trust part for managers?

Although Hugo and Joseph had a fierce quarrel over the past few months and their trust had also encountered a crisis, Hugo would not deny that Joseph was the first person he met after traveling through time, and the two experienced the most low-straight struggle after the Golden Raspberry Award. It can be said that Joseph is the object Hugo currently believes in the most in this time and space, second only to his father Adam.

Moreover, after collision and polishing, this friendship will stand the test even more. Of course, Hugo will not deny that risks still exist, but this is the fact that there is no relationship without any risk in the world. Even Hugo's mother Lina will choose to leave the family, so other relationships are even more so. However, after so many things, Hugo is willing to try it.

If Joseph could serve as his manager, many things would immediately become clear, including the increasingly intense poaching storm recently, and the Game of Thrones within the International Innovation Management Company.

"Joe, you know, maybe you can be my manager, which sounds like a good idea."
Chapter completed!