The problem with Coronation Street news that comes from Mr Curry Sauce in the tabloid press is that you often have no idea if they are true or not.
But I do hope this one is.
As we already know, actors on Coronation Street have little, if no, time for rehearsal. And so they devise ways of reading their scripts and remembering their lines that they hope no-one will notice. But Mr Curry Sauce has spilled the beans!
He (or she?) tells The Mirror that the cast "...stash the scripts in microwaves, bread bins, carrier bags and cookers. Tina O’Brien (Sarah Platt) hides her lines in a bread bin while co-star Jack P Shepherd (brother David Platt) prefers a microwave. The crew find the scripts all over the place. The stars don’t have long to learn lines and there aren’t endless retakes if people dry up. The crew like to get things shot in one or two takes and them move on because the filming schedule is now so intense, with six episodes a week.
Jack P Shepherd has shared an Instagram snap of his scripts hidden in the microwave in the Platt household (above).
Not only that, but in their regular weekly sharing of upcoming filming pictures, the official ITV Coronation Street twitter account posted this picture, below, showing Lisa George (Beth Sutherland) reading her lines during a take.
I guess with the pressure of producing six episodes a week, production must move so quickly that there simply isn't time for rehearsals and the cast have to take as many opportunities as they can to learn as they go.
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3 comments:
When the Duckworth family had breakfast, Bill Tarmey and Liz Dawn fixed their lines somehow to the condiments on the table. Coming from the clubs, where they had been hand-picked for their characters, they weren't used to learning lines. You can see in old episodes how Vera falters. Nigel Pivaro had been to RADA and worked in theatre so he didn't understand the problem. Liz Dawn joked that if Terry had to put salt on his boiled egg, Nigel would invariably replace the salt cellar - with notes affixed - too far away to read.
I've worked in theatre. Actors stash cheat notes for their lines all over the place.
Agree with Karen. Happens all the time in theatre. Not really a surprise they do it on set.
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