Looking for new work

In Kevin Huvane's office, Caa building, Los Angeles.

Eve was sitting opposite Kevin, discussing about the next projects.

Although she refused Harvey's offer by saying that she had no free schedule next year, but obviously it's a lie. She has not signed any other project after "Titanic".

"Have you gotten any good scripts yet?"

Kevin replied: "Not much. You know your situation is quite complicated now. Except for Fox, no other big production house wants to contact you for big budget projects before "Titanic" releases."

He himself is quite helpless in this matter. Eve's situation is really difficult. She has recently won golden globe award and needs a good movie to stabilize her position. Getting too much fame without sufficient background is also a double edged sword, and Eve only has two movies in her account. Although superhit, but they are not enough to make her reach the level of other big actresses like Julia Roberts or Meg Ryan.

She must give another hit to be able to truly become a leading actress. It wouldn't have been been difficult if she hadn't taken "Titanic", but now they cannot do anything about it. He just hopes that the damage the shipwreck will cause will not be so huge and Eve would still be able to make a comeback with another good movie afterwards. Otherwise, if she doesn't have any insurance after "Titanic", then she might have to stay out of commercial movies for a while.

Big studios are also adopting wait and see policy, and will only open the door of big productions to her after seeing the results of "Titanic".

Eve felt a little helpless. She didn't know what to say to Kevin. She can't tell him that "Titanic" will be a massive success, and even if she tells him, he won't believe her. After all, People only see the facts in front of their eyes. And obviously "Titanic's" prospects are negative.

Moving the thoughts out of her mind, she said: "Then we can choose movies from independent productions houses or simply from fox. It's not like there are no good independent movies made in Hollywood every year."

Kevin nodded. That's the only option left for them, but its also troublesome. Although Liam is a shareholder of Fox, but he's not the only shareholder. In a big studio like Fox, there are numerous factions, and obviously many of them don't like the rise of Eve. But these things can't be told to her for now, and he can only stabilize the things by himself for a while now.

Kevin took out the prepared scripts from his drawer, and placed them in front of Eve.

Looking at the pile of scripts infront of her, Eve joked: "Wow, it's quite a lot."

Kevin was amused by the joke: "Big productions have stopped sending you the scripts, but others are still flocking."

Big studios might have had adopted the wait and see policy, but small and independent productions are trying to take best advantage of it. Nothing is hidden in Hollywood. Eve's difficulty to not get good scripts is infact an opportunity for small productions. They might be able to get a chance to get the current most popular actress work in their works with minimum salary.

Eve agreed with Kevin's words and started looking at the scripts.

"Scream 2", the sequel to Scream was rejected immediately. She doesn't want to work in horror movies again for a while, otherwise her image will have a fix stereotype.

"Faculty" a horror movie with the same teen horror subject as Scream. She has already rejected scream, so there's no way she's taking a copy.

"Even After", a good teen romantic movie and also belongs to Fox, but was rejected by her as she has already worked in Romeo and Juliet". She won't repeat teen subjects again.

"High Art", an independent small budget movie but content of nudity is high.

After looking at the whole lot of scripts, she finally found two movies she was satisfied with.

Kevin looked at the two scripts selected by Eve with the names "There's something wrong about Mary" and "Little voice" on them. Turning 3-4 pages of both scripts, Kevin nodded satisfyingly.

He said: "One literary and one commercial, a good choice. But first we will try to see of we can get a project with a big studio. And even among these, you might be able to pick only one of them."

"Why"

"They both are comedies and it's better to take only one such movie. You can choose another subject for the second movie."

Eve thought for a while and replied: "Let's go with "There's something wrong with Mary"."

Kevin was surprised by Eve's choice. He thought she would pick the second one, as she has already done three commercial projects.

Eve saw the surprise in Kevin's eyes, and explained: "It's not that I don't want to work in literary art films. I am just leaving the spot for a better choice. I was infact here today to talk about this. I got a script sent to my personal email. The director was worried that you would reject the movie without even reading the script, so he sent it to me personally."

"Who" asked Kevin. He was quite angry but alos a little surprised. He wants to see who is so brave to bypass him and send script directly to the actor, and also when did he start having such a reputation in the industry.

Eve replied: "Shekar Kapur, a new director in industry without any previous projects. Don't worry, I haven't decided to take the role, I am just here to discuss it with you first. The script's quite good." She raised her hands in surrender before the person opposite could say anything.

Kevin was helpless at Eve's actions. He doesn't dislike new directors, but its just that they don't have a prior work experience and have better chances of screwing the projects. But he still read the script for her sake. If it's not very good, then he will reject it immediately.

Eve looked at her agent who closed the script after reading only half of it, and waited for his opinion.

Kevin gave his answer: "There's no problem with the script, but I have to meet with the director to give a final answer. The age of Elizabeth doesn't match with you well, and we will have to test your look in the character first."

Eve nodded. The rest is left for Kevin to decide, while she can have some free time to focus on college.

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P.S. The usual Hollywood agent client relationships are not like this. Usually if artist is not popular, then the agents are dominant in most cases. While if artist is popular, then Agnet is the one in recessive situation.

>> Eve's case is different. Kevin has been her agent since she was 9 years old. So she has developed a perception that its Kevin's decision in the end. Eve is not like MC's in other fictions where mc is independent and mentally strong. She's basically has lived in Ivory tower since childhood without even realizing it, otherwise Hollywood is too cruel for someone like her to survive alone.