The casting director.

Pierce had been dedicated to his work. Being a casting director was not an easy job to do. The cast of the movie or a t.v. series was decided by the director. But the director was given options by the casting director. One could say a casting director held enormous power in Hollywood.

Lately, Pierce had been involved in the casting of a romantic comedy movie. After a lot of efforts, he had been able to cast a well known actor at a supporting role. That was the only role that had been having problems with casting. It was a role where the actor had to be very handsome but with decent skills. The actor who he had been able to cast was Chris Williamson. He had been a newcomer 5 years back. And his career had taken a surge since then. He had been cast in a variety of films whether in supporting or lead roles. The media had deemed him to be the next Superstar.

This had made Chris filled with glee and he had become arrogant and despotic due to this. There had been several instances of him having quarrels with his co-stars and being late on the film sets. And now that Pierce had cast him in the film and they had only little part left to shoot, Chris Williamson had been caught in a drugs scandal. The police had raided his house on a tip from someone and found 2 kgs of Cocaine. All the efforts of the filming team had been down the drain. They obviously couldn't cast an actor who had been involved in drugs. Especially in a rom-com where the demographic targeted was the young people. So now they had to shoot the whole part of Chris again.

This had been making Pierce eat his own hair in frustration. It had been a week since the filming had stopped and the director had been up his butt all this time. When Amanda came to see him and told him she had a solution to his problem, he did not have high hopes. He had tried and tried to get some other actors to play the part but everyone was either busy with some other gig or not suitable to the role.

"Hehehe. I came to recommend you someone for the very same job", said Amanda with a superior glint.

"Who is it?"asked Pierce lazily.

"Come on old man, show a little bit on enthusiasm. Have I ever lied to you about work. And after so many years you should know my eye for talent. This is someone our agency just signed. I flew to San Francisco just for this person."

"Someone that made you personally go to San Francisco. That's rare. And who the f*ck is old? You are old, your entire family is old. Enough bullshit. Show me this supposed 'Rare talent' to me"

Amanda opened her laptop and then opened her YouTube. She played the latest song video that had been uploaded. 'Let it go' started playing with Logan standing with a guitar. Pierce had not been very optimistic about this person who had been recommended by his friend. But 2 minutes into the song, he couldn't take his eyes of the screen. The video finished after a few minutes.

"Are there any other videos?"

Amanda was amused. Pierce was like a kid who had just found candy land. If he had been a cartoon, he would surely have heart shaped eyes right now.

"Ofcourse, Logan has uploaded 5 songs. All of them are his originals. Don't look like that. I checked on the USEPO. He really has all the copyrights. I too felt that he must be lying. After all new songs are hard to come by."

One by one Pierce watched all of Logan's videos. After watching all of them, he laid back in his seat and gave a long sigh.

"How is that such gems fall into your hands so casually while I have to toil day and night for garbage? Fate is so unfair. How do I contact this guy? You signed this guy right, so must have his contact number."

"Fine. But you have to treat me to a fancy dinner."

Logan had no idea that he had been a topic of conversation for a role in a film. He was busy on his computer doing jobs with his computer science skills. Now that he had gained Master level in this, his hacking skills had taken a upward graph. He had started taking hacking jobs in the name of Sir Lancelot. He had started to earn quite considerably. For example there was an open notification on the dark web to test the cyber security of company name Arron. There had been many hackers who had tried to breach the firewall but not many had succeeded. Logan had also tried take this job. He had breached the firewall after 27 mins . After 2 weeks the company Arron had put out a list of people that had succeeded in the jobs.

1. Zero - 1 min 49 secs

2. Xiang Yu - 2 mins 11 secs

3. Akira - 2 mins 47secs

4. Boris - 3 mins 21 secs

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58. Sir Lancelot- 27 mins 01 secs

He was ranked 58th. That was among the people who had taken the job. This was a very high paying job. His dark web account now had a 100,000 dollars. He still had long way to go. He could just imagine how much this person named Zero had earned from this gig. He was just 58th and he had earned 100,000. Just thinking about the money he felt excited. He had increasing his computer science skill. His life had been going on well. His followers on his social media accounts had been increasing steadily. He was already halfway into his training period of the fashion agency. Soon he would be going for proper auditions to designers and photographers. That would officially kick off his fashion career.

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