How do Soap Operas’ Actors Manage to Cope With the Huge Amount of Lines They Need to Memorize?
They work hard.
Television actors’ lives are not comfortable, especially for soap opera actors. Each of them has between three and five work fronts (studio, scenographic city, and external shooting), in which dozens of scenes are shot daily. The studio usually shoots the most massive volume since it is the easiest to organize.
I’ve seen studios shooting sixty scenes in one day. Scenographic cities, which depend only on climatic…