There are some things that sum up what it is to be quintessentially British, and Dame Judi Dench is one of them. Luckily for us, then, that the star – once described as “the best thing about Britain alongside fish and chips” – has no plans to retire anytime soon.
Judi, 88, perhaps most famed for her role as M16 chief M in James Bond, says she wants to work “as much as I can”, despite the difficulties she’s having learning lines because of her degenerative eye condition which has left her barely able to see. “I mean I can’t see on a film set anymore,” Judi tells us. “And I can’t see to read.
So I can’t see much. But you know you just deal with it. Get on. It’s difficult for me if I have any length of a part. I haven’t yet found a way.
Because I have so many friends who will teach me the script. But I have a photographic memory.” Judi was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in 2012.
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