What I donโt understand is that why would Henry play along? The whole thing doesnโt add up, does it ? The PR theory etc. Like it only did him harm rather than pushed his career.
Imagine you're Henry, circa 2021. You are in the UK in the middle of lockdown but still working. Then your most trusted manager in the US sends you a copy of a script and tells you to make a mystery photo post that will keep your fans engaged and make them look more into it because fans like mystery. It was quickly found out that the script was from a game that had been secretly developing for a decade. Then you find out it was stolen, LATE.
No amount of apologizing and owning up to your mistake will get you out of this mess, and no studio will cooperate or trust you with their IP. IP is the most sacred entity, and a script is the sacred text in the industry you are working.
The career youโve worked and built since you were 17 years old will crumble right before your eyes. The career that got you out of the hunger and homelessness you experienced, that gave you the opportunity to have nice things, that made you confident, gave purpose to your life, a way of escape to your depression and brought pride to your familyโs name.
So you choose the best decision your most trusted manager provided to you: just be in another PR with the daughter of her BFF and the silent investor of her production studio. That decision is also a rope slowly tightening around your neck.
You find yourself being defensive with every step you take, just to make your surroundings peaceful. That peace is just a band-aid over another storm brewing behind your back.
No matter what concessions you give, these beings will still demand more from you. You find yourself getting worse and making worse decisions just to have peace and at least some semblance of control over your life. You find yourself drowning in alcohol just to forget that you put your trust in someone you thought would have your back and that the dream you once said on air, of wanting to have your own family, will never come true, because that dream was also the knife your most trusted person used to stab and twist in your back.
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