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I like some of her work very much, but I'm an even bigger fan of her late husband, Michael Williams. Wish he was still with us.Originally Posted by julian_craster
Dame Judi Dench interview:
Judi Dench: 'Does nobody ever believe anything I do?' | Culture | The Guardian
I like some of her work very much, but I'm an even bigger fan of her late husband, Michael Williams. Wish he was still with us.
Mrs Henderson Presents was on that most excellent of channels BBC4 last night. Quite good wasn't it? Certainly deserved the 3 stars that the RT gave it, an angel of a story. One odd thing though; Judi Dench acted the part of a racy 1930's rich widow yet she was dressed and made up to look uncannily like the late Queen Mother. I wonder if this was accident or design? Must not forget the other half of the foil, Bob Hoskins as van Dam nick named VD, quite complementyary for the Windmill's reputation.
Judy Dench has a wonderful range, one favourite is As time Goes By, the chemistry between her and Geoffrey Palmer a delight, her timing perfect.
Also her Send in The Clowns has never been bettered, she acts it which is how it should be done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEQrZ...?v=DEQrZzjXbnE
To flirt with rescue when one has no intention of being saved
A lovely surprise on The Andrew Marr Show this morning. Judi Dench at her most witty and charming. I so admire her, and regard her as the greatest actress of her time, my view anyway. We have so many really good actors and actress. But as she said the new actors coming on the scene, don't really get the repertory training because of so many theatre closing. I love how versatile she is, never being pidgoen holed as some become.
Elaine
I so agree with you - I have been a fan since I saw her in a play that had four parts. It was about an event and was seen by four different characters a father, a mother, a daughter and a son and it was brilliant. Judi Dench was a young woman and shone in her part consequently I have followed her career with great joy. Maurice Denham played the father. I have friends who met Judi Dench and Ewan McGregor who were filming last year in Scotland (I think it is Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) and they said they were both absolutely charming and great fun to meet. The other female star did not get that endorsement - rather the opposite.
Talking to a stranger. Judi plays Terry. I loved that too. I have collected quite a few dvds of hers. I am such a magpie when it comes to all things theatre and film.
Elaine
Yes I saw that too this morning! Well done, Andrew Marr!
Hope Judi will have fun filming with Clint Eastwood, who phoned her less than 12 hours before Andrew interviewed her.
She will film with Leo di Caprio from next month.
And Judi.......I can see and understand your passion about Johnny Depp..........
Last edited by Onedin; 16-01-11 at 07:05 PM. Reason: Hang on......Judi and Johnny were in 'Chocolat'............yummie...........lol
Here's a charming interview with Ray Plomley in the 80s during which Judi talks about her "favourite things" e.g. hearts, pandas, and other things she collects, and her special dollhouse. Filmed at her home in Surrey, fascinating.
Part one of two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm6X_aX89n0
Well deserved
BBC News - Dame Judi Dench receives BFI fellowship
Good choice. Congratulations!
Great then, great now. Congratulations Judi.
I just read this on Yahoo7 - the heading said "Judy Dench going blind". Not quite the case, fortunately, but bad enough.
LONDON (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench has lost part of her eyesight and struggles to read film scripts or see people sitting directly in front of her.
The 77-year-old, who plays the spy chief M in the James Bond films, said she has developed an age-related condition called macular degeneration.
In an interview with the Daily Mirror newspaper on Saturday, Dench said it had affected her sight in both eyes, although she has received treatment which she hopes will prevent further damage.
"I can't read scripts anymore because of the trouble with my eyes," Dench was quoted as saying. "Somebody comes in and reads them to me, like telling me a story.
"It's usually my daughter or my agent or a friend and actually I like that, because I sit there and imagine the story in my mind.
"I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old."
Dench's agent could not immediately be reached for comment.
Just under a third of Britons aged 75 or over have signs of macular degeneration, a painless condition that erodes central vision and leaves peripheral sight unaffected, according to the NHS.
There are two forms of the condition: "dry," which leaves people with blurry central vision, and "wet," a more serious type which can cause blindspots. It does not cause total blindness, according to the NHS website.
"I had wet in one eye and dry in the other and they had to do these injections and I think it's arrested it. I hope so," Dench told the Mirror newspaper.
"The most distressing thing is in a restaurant in the evening I can't see the person I'm having dinner with.
"You get used to it. I've got lenses and glasses and things and very bright light helps. I can do a crossword if it's bright sunshine but if a cloud comes out the next minute I can't see anything."
Despite her eye problems, Dench said she had no plans to retire. Her seventh Bond film, "Skyfall," is due to be released later this year and she is currently promoting "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," a comedy-drama set in India.
One of Britain's best-known actresses, Dench won an Oscar in 1998 for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in "Shakespeare in Love."
(Reporting by Peter Griffiths; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
I too read this story and was sorry to hear it but, sadly, it's just one of those things that come with age. Good for Dame Judi that it isn't going to force her to retire. That may provide a filip for the thousands of other sufferers in the country.
A friend and contemporary of mine has the none-age related version of this. It's rotten, because he's a keen athlete. Mind you it may have stopped him driving, but it hasn't stopped him running and, like Dame Judi, he's determined to carry on...!
Smudge
John Mills suffered from the same condition and he carried on working to the end
I Mandrake in todays Telegraph there is a lovely story about John Mills relating to the story
Judi’s inspiration
Dame Judi Dench’s disclosure that she is suffering from macular degeneration, a disease of the retina which causes a progressive loss of sight, will not, the 77-year-old actress assures me, result in her early retirement.
“I can’t read scripts any more, so somebody comes in and reads them for me,” she says. Her mother, Eleanora, also suffered from the condition.
Sir John Mills, Dame Judi’s old friend, continued to act long after the retinas in both his eyes had failed, and doubtless she is now inspired by him.
I recall him telling me, a few years before he died, that he couldn’t see “a damn thing,” but he didn’t see it as debilitating. “I’m an actor, so I can act being able to see,” he said. He chuckled that a young woman from The Times had lately been to see him and her opening gambit had been to inquire what he had done with his life. “So I chucked a copy of Who’s Who at her and, do you know, my aim turned out to be spot on?”
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