The Actor Madness: Rise [COMPLETED]

Chapter XV (Press Conference)

Midtown Manhattan, February 10th 2023

I now live in a loft. In Manhattan.

I'm living in one of the most luxury lofts in New York city.

But I didn't get it easy. It took me three years after getting my degree in Dramatic Arts to get here.

I am now living the life of fame and fortune.

Roderick?! Well he upgraded himself and now he is a dramaturg.

He got a degree in Playwriting and Dramaturgy.

He has been writing great musicals and a lot of movie scripts.

Who thought? Roderick Schultz. Born and raised in Los Angeles.

Lover of the calm and peace, would move to New York and study and work in something he didn't dream he would like.

We live together. He left his mother at L.A.

It was sad but as we grow up that's what we have to do.

I'm having a press conference in my loft. My publicist has been running around this giant house to prepare the event.

Whom she should invite. Which media magazine or channel should be here.

How should she manage my appearence and charisma.

It's a lot of pressure. But that... is something I overcame.

Now I'm quite happier than ever.

I've been in a few revivals of Broadways shows, since Broadway isn't getting new, original shows.

I've been going "home" at L.A. to shoot some movies and tv shows.

Also attending talkshows, Academy awards, Emmy Awards, Golden Globes.

It's quite weird that "everybody knows me" but I have yet to know them.

They know the person my publicist is pushing everybody to know.

I try sometimes to be myself but in this industry is quite hard and if you break the rules, they break you.

Literally.

9 p.m.

I was out for a little bit to freshen up. To get the tension out of my body.

I tried to visit Central Park, the only place which gives me peace.

But soon a crowd emerged around me asking me for selfies.

And what baffled me more, it wasn't that I had these lot of people to take a "selfie" with.

It was that people still don't get the definition of what a selfie is.

Selfie is a picture that you take of yourself.

SELFIE!! SELF-IE. It comes from self.

So people shouldn't ask, oh let's take a selfie.

No!

I took pictures with these people that admire me.

Because I don't like the term fans. I

f they want me to call them that, it's okay. But I like to refer to them as my admirers.

By this time you're probably wondering what happened to Margot, Fernando and Sam.

Well, Margot moved out from L.A. to Boston.

Fernando is a writer in the New York Times, here in NYC!!

Sam?! Well we met again a couple years ago and we got over everything we had and made peace.