And they'll get their actor friends to be in it. Another way to get to talent, without going through an agent, is through the star's own production company. They want to get scripts without going through their agent, because if you look at what's in it for the agent, with low budget features, there is little or no money for the agent, especially if the star takes their salary at scale, and then defers the salary for back-end profits. Talent has more power, more control over the product with their own company and they can get material they wouldn't otherwise get. Another way to get scripts to stars is through managers.
Managers are really wonderful in that sense.
So the clients feel terrific, the managers get to be producers and collect their producer's fee. It's a win-win situation. Except sometimes for the audience, since some managers don't know how to produce a movie. We couldn't get distribution for Kissing Miranda because there was no way to market the film without stars. Because we hurried to get to Sundance, and thought the script was strong enough to go without name talent, studios had no way to market this.