I worked in Hollyweird for a number of years and have had tons of run ins with celebs and very powerful entertainment types.
Since starting with mones, no, so I’ll have to side with Tacitus on this just based on experience…stay away from status and go with just being real.
Now if you’re a very alpha domineering type A personality male, then yeah A314 etc is your cup of tea. But if not, and you come in guns a blazing you will get ghosted not because you’re too alpha, too intimidating, but because you will look try hard. They just won’t buy it.
These people are around movers and shakers, people who can get checks cut with more zeros than you can imagine. They can green light entire productions with a phone call and kill your career with the guy on call waiting.
Their take will be…“who the fuck are you?” In the end what can you bring to the table? If you can’t get them a bigger credit on their next film, maybe name over the titles, a better record deal with more air play etc. Then you have nothing to offer them if that’s the person you try to be.
However, what you can bring to the table is YOU. If you truly don’t want anything and wish to just treat them like another human being who’s hard work either paid off, or they got real damn lucky or a combination of both, then you can offer them companionship.
I live with a top poker pro, someone who is quite famous in her own rite. Has a World Series Bracelet etc. When we walk through the Rio during that time of the year, its like walking with a rock star. She has people coming at her from all kinds of directions wanting to show her this new thing, or that new thing, they want her seal of approval / endorsement or money. How we became such good friends and eventually roommates was because she absofuckinglutely loves me and who I am and what I bring as a friend.
I’ve also had a co-worker who was an Oscar Nominated actress for her part in The Goodbye Girl. Once I got past that title, “Oscar nominated actress,” and saw the real person, I talked shit to her like I did with any other friend / co-worker…all in fun. Cuz the New York attitude you see on screen is what she brings in real life.
I hope you get my point. These people give and give and give and people just keep taking from them. They feel empty inside because they don’t trust people, their friends even their family because someone always has an ulterior motive.
So yeah, short answer. Socials. Make yourself as interesting as possible and give them value instead of taking it from them.