I am reading countless scripts that were just messengered over, and trying to learn lines.
Does anyone have some magical trick for memorization? Some people have a knack for it, like speed reading, or being able to peel an apple in one long strip.
I possess none of those talents, the former being the most excruciating problem to have. Especially as a working actress.
I'm gonna have to role the dice and stare at the pages for some of these. I'm sorry -- it's just freaking impossible to learn 20 pages for McG, and then turn around and know 9 pages of funny for Jamie Tarses, while then busting my ass to get to CBS Radford and do another 6 pages of single cam for producers I've never met.
Thank god none of these require crying...because those reads can make you reach for the tylenol in your handbag like no other.
That, by the way, is a pilot season staple in my purse.
Other necessities include:
-mini stapler
-highlighter
-headshots and resumes
-scripts/sides
-make-up bag
-deoderant (running around can cause a girl to perspire. sexy? no. reality? yes.)
-pens, in lots of colors
-bottle of water, bag of almonds, and an apple (this often has people mistaking me for a young mom instead of a young actress. No, I'm not feeding a child. I'm feeding me.)
-blackberry*
*without which, I honestly don't know how on God's green earth I would get through pilot season. Seriously, what did actors used to do?
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I don't know why NO ONE is commenting on your posts - I'm hooked, and I have to stop myself from turning your monologue into a brief dialogue.
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Try recording your lines (and your scene partner(s) lines) and listening to them over and over while gradually saying your lines instead of listening to them.
It's how I've done it for years, and I'm off book and on to exploring characters faster than most.
I use my iPhone now, as opposed to recording in my home studio, with an app I developed called Rehearsal. It's in the App Store.
However you learn best, whether it's my method or simply covering your lines with your hand as you run down the page, getting the memorization out of the way, and getting on to the fun of putting the scene up on its feet and creating new ways to say those lines always is a most joyous time.
I love reading your blog. I hope you reveal yourself someday. You're doing so many things right, and it's paying off for you.
Congratulations.
By the way, I was in that episode of LOST you weren't watching. :-)
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