6 television actors on being judged for their looks, why AI is 'lame' and more

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Memorizing your lines seems like such a foundational part of an actor’s job that there wouldn’t be much to say about it.Yet when a group of performers recently got onto the topic during The Envelope’s Emmy Limited Series / TV Movie Roundtable, it turned out everyone had their own way of doing it.

And all were eager for tips and tricks, whether it be an app, a line-drilling coach (“Can I have that number?”), writing down the first letter of each word or even writing a monologue backward.“We have to share tools, guys,” said Camila Morrone, who plays a bride-to-be who learns her fiancé’s family dark secrets in the horror thriller “Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.” “It’s funny that we all have such different methods.”Joining Morrone were Jamie Bell, who stars in “Half Man,” about the extremely dysfunctional, toxic relationship between two stepbrothers; Linda Cardellini, who appears in “DTF St.Louis” as a dissatisfied woman caught in a dangerous love triangle; Michael Peña, who plays a detective assigned to the case of a missing child while his own boundaries are tested in “All Her Fault”; Andrew Rannells, who is a man coming to terms with his own life while helping to plan a funeral in “Miss You, Love You”; and Constance Zimmer, who channels the mother of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in “Love Story: John F.

Kennedy Jr.and Carolyn Bessette.” Read on for more excerpts from our conversation.How do you watch TV? A home theater screening room or a tablet on the go?Morrone: When I see people on a plane watching on their phone, I’m like, “Do you know how many people worked on that?”Zimmer: I can barely watch one on an iPad because I still feel guilty about not getting the full effect.Cardellini: I can’t watch on my phone or an iPad.

It starts to hurt my eyes.And I like to binge.

I don’t like one at a time.I like to save it up, a...