As a rule, no. In some rare cases,...

 Posted on 9/18/1994 by STRACZYNSKI [Joe] to GENIE


As a rule, no. In some rare cases, if we're hooking a story to something
close in the actor's background, we'll talk to them a bit, but the cast never
sees a script until it's hit Final Draft stage, at which point very little is
changed. Sometimes on set an actor may want a line phrased differently for
performance, but that too is fairly rare.

Actors are not writers, and writers are not actors. (In general.)
There is a gross misunderstanding of the role of the actor in determining what
happens in a script.

jms