Actor Roundup
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Tanner Novlan (Finn, B&B)
“You have to just keep practicing and practicing until it becomes a muscle because it really is one. It’s just repetition.”
Photo credit: Gilles Toucas/Courtesy Of Bell-Phillip Television Inc
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Arianne Zucker (Nicole, DAYS)
“Everyone has a method. I would say take your weekly group of scenes, read them, highlight them and work on them. Get your story arc for the week in your head, that way when you have to memorize each night, you have an idea of what you’re going to do for the week, and it takes pressure off the dialogue.”
Photo credit: NBC
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Donnell Turner (Curtis, GH)
“I learned a great exercise in an acting class years ago. Take a page, read it, then turn the paper over and write down what you remember. Then read it again, turn the paper back over and fill in more words. You do that two or three times, you’ve pretty much written out the whole thing and it makes it a lot easier to remember.”
Photo credit: ABC
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Peter Bergman (Jack, Y&R)
“Just go over and over them until you know your lines well enough that if you walk in the building and they say, ‘We’ve moved around some scenes, you’re up right now,’ you could do it.”
Photo credit: CBS
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Gregory Harrison (Gregory, GH)
“In film, you honor every comma and exclamation point in the script. I did that at GH for about two weeks and then I realized that the people around me weren’t doing it exactly as written. They were making it their own, making sure they got every point across, but in their own words. I found that the only part you really have to [say exactly as written] are the last three words, because that’s somebody’s cue [for their own next line of dialogue]. When I started doing that, it made it a lot easier to memorize.”
Photo credit: ABC
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Suzanne Rogers (Maggie, DAYS)
“I have dyslexia, so for me it has to be very quiet. I read the scene through and then I mark the scenes, what’s important in the speeches that I have. I make little notes on the side, and that helps me when I want to memorize it. Learn in a quiet place, take good notes, and trust yourself. It’s basically concentration.”
Photo credit: NBC
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Courtney Hope (Sally, Y&R)
“I love to look at the science behind memorization and I’m one that likes to go slower. So I feel like [you should give] yourself a couple of days to go slow and absorb it, then wake up the next day and go over it again. Give yourself two or three days, then by the time you get to set, those lines are in your body. I know some people do it the night before, but I think the earlier, the better.”
Photo credit: JPI
Tanner Novlan (Finn, B&B)
“You have to just keep practicing and practicing until it becomes a muscle because it really is one. It’s just repetition.”
Photo credit: Gilles Toucas/Courtesy Of Bell-Phillip Television Inc
Arianne Zucker (Nicole, DAYS)
“Everyone has a method. I would say take your weekly group of scenes, read them, highlight them and work on them. Get your story arc for the week in your head, that way when you have to memorize each night, you have an idea of what you’re going to do for the week, and it takes pressure off the dialogue.”
Photo credit: NBC
Donnell Turner (Curtis, GH)
“I learned a great exercise in an acting class years ago. Take a page, read it, then turn the paper over and write down what you remember. Then read it again, turn the paper back over and fill in more words. You do that two or three times, you’ve pretty much written out the whole thing and it makes it a lot easier to remember.”
Photo credit: ABC
Peter Bergman (Jack, Y&R)
“Just go over and over them until you know your lines well enough that if you walk in the building and they say, ‘We’ve moved around some scenes, you’re up right now,’ you could do it.”
Photo credit: CBS
Gregory Harrison (Gregory, GH)
“In film, you honor every comma and exclamation point in the script. I did that at GH for about two weeks and then I realized that the people around me weren’t doing it exactly as written. They were making it their own, making sure they got every point across, but in their own words. I found that the only part you really have to [say exactly as written] are the last three words, because that’s somebody’s cue [for their own next line of dialogue]. When I started doing that, it made it a lot easier to memorize.”
Photo credit: ABC
Suzanne Rogers (Maggie, DAYS)
“I have dyslexia, so for me it has to be very quiet. I read the scene through and then I mark the scenes, what’s important in the speeches that I have. I make little notes on the side, and that helps me when I want to memorize it. Learn in a quiet place, take good notes, and trust yourself. It’s basically concentration.”
Photo credit: NBC
Courtney Hope (Sally, Y&R)
“I love to look at the science behind memorization and I’m one that likes to go slower. So I feel like [you should give] yourself a couple of days to go slow and absorb it, then wake up the next day and go over it again. Give yourself two or three days, then by the time you get to set, those lines are in your body. I know some people do it the night before, but I think the earlier, the better.”
Photo credit: JPI
