My Hitman System

Chapter 65: Blue Horizon Entertainment

While Jin was busy with the weights the woman finished with her workouts. She glanced towards Jin. Jin was fully engaged with the leg press machine and didn't notice her gaze. She soon retracted her gaze and reached for her stuff.

With a towel and bottle in hand, she left the gym. A few moments later when Jin realized that he was all alone he felt elated. He had been controlling his urge to scream during reps for a while now, he could finally let everything out.

Around one and a half hours later when Jin reached his room, all of him was covered in sweat. He took a bath the next moment and slammed his tired body on the bed.

The next day after getting all set for the day he left the hotel. His destination was one of the agencies among the list of thirty which he noted last night.

"Blue Horizon Entertainment," Jin muttered as he looked at the signboard in front of a five-storey building.

'Here goes nothing,' Jin took a deep breath and made his way in.

The ambience inside the building was quite appealing. Jin turned his head rightwards and found the reception a few meters away from him.

He was about to make his way towards it but felt a tap on his back.

When he turned around he saw a man's familiar face behind him.

The man at first looked hesitant but the moment he got a clear look at Jin's face his expression changed and was replaced with that of excitement.

"Thank my lucky stars! it really is you!" He said excitedly as if he had won the lottery.

"...Mr. Tyler?" It took a couple of seconds for Jin to recollect his name. Jin was sitting beside him on the flight initially and had exchanged a few words with him.

"Yes it's me, you're here because you want to be an actor right?" Tyler asked.

Jin nodded at him. He had said it in his interview yesterday so he wasn't surprised that Tyler knew it.

"Haha! You've arrived at the right place," Tyler claimed after a chuckle.

Jin was about to raise his doubts when the receptionist who was not far away from them said with a smile, "Good morning, Mr. Tyler"

"Good morning Jane," Tyler replied with a smile as he turned his attention back to Jin.

"You work here?" Jin asked. Wasn't this too coincidental?!

"Indeed," Tyler said with a smile that had a trace of pride in it. He took out a card from his pocket and gave it to Jin.

Jin looked at the finely carved card which read, 'Tyler Grey, Talent Director, Blue Horizon Entertainment,'

"I would have given you my card yesterday only if I had known that you wanted to become an actor. That's the least I could do for someone who had saved my life and the lives of several others," Tyler said as Jin was going through his card.

Jin gave the card back after going over it.

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"Keep it, you'll be needing it," Tyler said with a smile.

Tyler continued, "Anyways, it's good that this happened, when I came to know that you wanted to be an actor when I watched your interview I felt so disappointed in myself, I'm glad now I'll be able to repay your gratitude,"

'Is my luck so good?' Jin thought. He just couldn't believe that it would be so easy for him to become an actor.

"So have you ever acted before?" Tyler asked as he guided Jin towards the lift.

"Never," Jin replied truthfully.

"Really? So you're a natural huh?" Tyler commented as they got on the lift.

"Natural?" Jin asked with doubt apparent in his eyes.

"Well, I'm saying this from the way you did your interview yesterday. Normally when in front of the camera most people start mumbling or thinking about what they need to say next and in that way they end up messing up what they are saying now...you understand right?

In your case, however, it didn't happen like that. You spoke everything you wanted without any show of anxiety or nervousness which is a sign of potential,"

"Potential...?" Jin clearly doubted Tyler's words. How could he be gifted at acting? He had never acted in his entire life.

How could Tyler who had spent his fair share of time in this industry not catch the insecurity laced in Jin's words?

Therefore, he said, "Let's do this, I'll make you act a scene. That will help me gauge your abilities. You don't need to be tense about it even if it goes bad. Even if you perform horrendously I'll still hire you because you've saved my life.

Acting is all about practice, so you'll be able to get good enough with time in that manner,"

However confident Jin was when it came to killing someone he too felt anxious when the topic of being tested for his acting skills came up.

Tyler's last words provided him with some comfort but still a large part of him was still a bit anxious.

The lift's door opened and Tyler patted Jin's back, "Let's go,"

The two soon arrived in a studio room. There a man who seemed to be in his early thirties was trying something with a camera placed on the tripod.

"Michael! I've got a task for you," Tyler said as he entered the room.

"Come on, let this old man take some breather, I've just arrived," Michael said.

"If you're considered old then aren't people like me considered dead?" Tyler scoffed and then pointed at Jin "Give him a script and check his skills, he has never acted before so make sure to give him an appropriate script,"

Michael looked at Jin who was looking around the studio room with curiosity.

He couldn't help but find the man's face familiar...he immediately remembered and turned to look at Tyler.

"Isn't this the man whose interview you shared on our chat group last night?"

"You've guessed right,' Tyler grinned.

With a sigh, he rummaged through the piles of scripts in a cardboard box and finally chose one.

It was a shirt script that a beginner could memorize easily. However, it was a bit difficult for them to flesh out the emotions of this character properly.

'Well, it doesn't matter if he does badly, he's going to get hired anyway,' He didn't have high expectations from someone who was using a backdoor entry.

With this thought, Michael handed Jin his script and explained it to him.

"Revenge of the Broken" Jin read out the title in his mind as Michael explained it to him the details of his role.

"...In short, I want you to be the character, take his pain and all the other emotions which he is feeling and make them appear on your face while you say those lines, you understand?"

Jin nodded. Although hesitant, he felt that he might be able to do it.

"Alright, I'll give you fifteen minutes to get familiar with the dialogues before we start," Michael said as he busied himself with setting up the studio lighting and the camera.