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Learning Lines part 3
The people I am often most impressed with are actors in soap operas. Soaps are filmed incredibly fast - probably only 2 takes and then they move on. With a film, you might only finish a few minutes worth a week but soaps produce around 4-5 x 30 minute episodes a week!
The actors have to know their lines and give an excellent performance - they have to be game ready all the time.
In terms of learning lines then, their short term memory is probably very good. They will be able to learn a few pages of script very fast which they then forget equally quickly.
It's a completely different thing to learning, say Hamlet, which for the title role has 1569 lines (the most lines any single character has in a play) and has to be replicated night after night. Actors who have played big roles like this will likely be able to recall huge swathes of text years later.
There are lots of different methods - recording your lines, a lot of actors picture where they are on the page and repetition repetition repetition.
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