Judi Dench has been candid about her deteriorating eyesight, struggling to learn her lines.
Appears on The Graham Norton Show, THE James Bond star opened up about his age-related degenerative eye condition that led to his acting career.
“It turned out to be impossible, and since I have a photographic memory, I had to find a machine that would teach me my lines and tell me where they appear on the page,” added the 88-year-old.
“It used to be so easy to learn the lines and remember them. I can do the whole Twelfth Night now.”
The Oscar winner has been suffering from macular degeneration for more than a decade. Earlier, the veteran actor revealed how he coped with the problem.
“You’re looking for a way to move forward and solve things that you find very difficult,” he added.
“I had to find another way to learn the lines and things, that my friends I repeated it over and over again.
I did The Winter’s Tale with Kenneth Branagh a few years ago, playing Paulina. After we had been running for three weeks or more at the Garrick, he said to me – I have a long speech at the end – he said: ‘Judi if you speak that speech about eight feet to your right, you will speak it to me and not to [proscenium].’ I trust people to tell me!”
However, Dench is still determined to work in films. His new outing is the movie Alleluiabased on a 2018 play by Alan Bennett set in a geriatric ward.
