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Nighy: The lazy stars who won’t learn their lines

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ACTORS are routinely turning up for filming not knowing their lines, Bill Nighy said.

The Love Actually star, right, told the Cheltenham Literature Festival it was now ‘fashionabl­e’ to arrive for rehearsals unprepared.

Asked by an audience member for advice for young actors, the 67-year-old said: ‘If you’re doing anything, if it’s a play, or a film ... learn every single word that you have to say backwards, forwards and sideways before you go into a rehearsal room – and obviously before you go on a film set.

‘That might sound like an obvious thing, but it’s not currently. There is a fashion for not knowing your lines. It’s been invented by people who don’t want to do their homework, obviously, and even as a creative choice.’

The British star also said many actors made ‘millions of dollars’ just by ‘standing still and keeping a straight face’.

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