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