How do actors and actresses memorize a play or movie?

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Is there some special method to remembering an entire play or movie without having to refer to your lines? I can barely remember one paragraph of lines to the tee, let alone hundreds of pages of lines. Thanks!

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I am absolutely terrible at memorization in general, but when I acted, it wasn’t too bad, because there are generally a lot of cues from the other actors’ lines. Muscle memory associated with the lines helps too, but that really only applies to stage acting since TV and movie actors are generally expected to memorize their lines in a shorter time frame. Monologues are just as bad as having to memorize and recite a long poem for school, though.

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