PATRICK STEWART - STEWART LEARNED LINES 50 YEARS AGO

STEWART LEARNED LINES 50 YEARS AGO

British actor PATRICK STEWART didn't have to learn a single line to play MACBETH on Broadway - because had already memorised the script as a schoolboy.
The X-Men star learnt the famous Shakespearean prose more than 50-years-ago when he was a child scholar - insisting the play was "great" even in his youth.
And the 67-year-old, who first starred as the tragic Scottish king in London's West End last year (07), was glad he already knew his script, insisting his memory is going the older he gets.
He says, "Nearly 50 years I've waited. I learned it when I was 14. I memorised all the soliloquies just because I thought they were great.
"And they stuck, so I didn't have to learn those bits of the play, which is a blessing, because learning lines has now become the one curse of this job.