Ch 4 - Don't Let Me Down...

Inside the audition room a few minutes before Will called in.

"Okay Mr. Jackson, we will contact you about the result in the next few months"

"Thank you"

As Mr. Jackson goes out of the audition door, the casting director, Margery Simkin looked at the middle aged man beside her sipping his coffee leisurely.

"Tell me, why do we have another public audition again?"

"Haven't we had already found the actor, uh... Who's his name again, that Aussie boy, Sam Worth-something"

The middle aged man looked at her tired face with an amused smile.

"Sam Worthington, and although I said he was good for the role, doesn't mean he is the perfect one. His acting is a bit lacking from my standard"

"But we've already gone to 24 different countries only for 1 single role in the movie" She argued.

"Yes, but this 1 single role is the most important Male Leading Role in the movie, he is the heart of the whole movie. I won't care about the actor/actress for the other roles, but for this 1 role, I have to search for the best in the world" He said calmly.

'And the fact that he doesn't have the eyes'

As Simkin was about to argue more with him, the door opened by the casting assistant.

"You can come in"

Will came into the room followed by the gazes from both directors.

"Good morning" Will greeted.

Cameron looked at him noddingly, 'temprament and the aura is good, face is better than Worthington's, hope his acting will too'.

As Will stand in the designated area, Simkin asked him, "Well, you can introduce yourself"

"My name is William Benedict Coulson, age 23 years old, graduated from RADA last year. I have participated in..."

As Will finished his introduction, the director nodded again and start searching through the bundle of scripts, "alright, I want you to act this scene"

Will took the script from Cameron's hand and look at it, there's only 5 pharagraps in the paper without any dialogue.

[JAKE and his AVATAR lies head to head. Human Jake...]

[...]

[MOVE INTO CU on AVATAR JAKE as Neytiri's hand comes into frame, stroking his cheek. TIGHTENING slowly to-]

[ECU JAKE'S EYES. Hold a beat, then-]

[They Open.]

Will looked at it a few times and closed his eyes to accumulate the character's feelings. Will remembered this scene from his heart as this became one of his favourite scene in the movie after his reincarnation.

This is the last scene where Jake finally moved his consciousness permanently into his Avatar's body after the Pandora's World War between the Na'Vi and Human Race.

This scene really resonate with his experience when he had first accepted the fact that he had truly reincarnated and that body is truly his.

Will remembered that feeling, Joy, Happy, Excited, and most importantly, Anticipation and Determination to live his life to the fullest.

Then Will opened his eyes...

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*James Cameron POV*

"James, why did you do that!? As you said, you haven't even seen his acting skills other than him opening his eyes!!"

"I know Paul, but that eyes of his is perfect!! That eyes is what I'm searching for all this time!!"

"But he can't only act with his eyes!! You and I know that fact! What if his acting is a fuckin' garbage!??"

James too got a headache after his excitement when he saw the deep eyes of Will as he opened his eyes. In a split of excitement he instantly said that he will contact Will about the acting contract and he kicked out other actors as he had already found the perfect guy for the role.

That is also the reason why Paul, his manager, is mad at him, as he possibly had offended some big agency company because he chose a no-name actor from none of their agencies.

"Okay okay... Look, listen, before we sign the contract I will ask my friend from RADA about him okay? Is that okay with you?"

"You!... Urgh!! Fine! It's not like I'm the one who's gonna suffer when his acting is bad anyway. But I don't want you to kick other actors in a whim, you've offended enough people already"

As he said that Paul took a deep breath and said his warning one last time.

"Remember don't offend another one, I will help Janet to ease the agencies"

He walked out and James muttered annoyedly, "Fuckin' companies and their profit-filled brains"

James took a deep breath to calm himself down and took out his old nokia phone from the drawer.

"Ring~ Ring~ Ring~ Clack~"

"James?"

"John! How are you doing?"

"I'm good, what's wrong James? Aren't you supposed to be busy for the new movie you directed? Usually you won't even have time to call your own wife when you're having such a big project" John laughed teasingly.

"Yeah I have something important to ask, you're still teaching at RADA right?"

"Yeah of course, I'm still teaching there, why?"

"Do you know an alumnus there named Will?"

"James, you do know that there's a whole lot of alumnus called Will from here right?"

"Alright sorry his full name is uh... William Ben-"

"Benedict Coulson" John interrupted rudely. "So in the end he came to Hollywood huh..."

"Yeah, you know him?"

"Of course I know him. He's my best Mentee alright. He's the most brilliant seedling I have ever seen my entire life" John scoffed proudly.

"You're Mentee? Wait you never said you had another Mentee, a brilliant one at that" James asked questioningly.

"Of course I haven't, I won't tell you if I have to, you think I would want him to be contaminated by Hollywood? You yourself know how toxic the Hollywood Showbiz is compared to the West End here"

"..." James was speechless at his argument. What John said was not wrong, the Hollywood Showbiz is not a good place to work, unlike what the internet says 'Hollywood, where dreams comes true', If you don't have any connections or relatives in Hollywood, you will have a very hard time just to settle in this place.

Even if you have one or two, you won't just straight up be a star, you have to wait for an opportunity and more often than not, those who got the opportunity would waste it. And the second opportunity is very hard to find.

Not to mention the illegal things actor and actresses were requested to do by some bastards who called themselves Producer and other higher-ups.

"Sigh... You know what, he already chose his own path to walk, I could only help him to settle down" John then stopped talking.

"Alright John I know what to do" James said.

"Thank you James, you won't regret letting him play the role" John replied simply and hung up the phone.

James put down the phone and held his head. After a few minutes he sighed.

"Sigh... Don't let me down Will..."

He picked up the phone again and called the Casting Director, Simkin.

"Simkin speaking"

"Margery, prepare the contract and sign that boy"

"You mean the boy from today?"

"Yes"

"Okay I'll get the papers ready and call the boy to come tomorrow and sign it"

After he hung up the phone, James still held his head.

"Don't let me down..."

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Author's Note!

Oh yeah, I forgot to add that in this novel, most Actor's Staff like Agents, Managers, Assistants, and Publicist are OC, meaning it's not their real life Staffs because I don't know their real life staff and I'm too lazy to search for it.

Thanks!