Judi Dench plays 'guess the lyric' with grandson on TikTok
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The Oscar-winner has suffered age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most-common cause of sight loss in the UK, since 2012. She also had a knee replacement in 2014. She said: “The macular degeneration was caught early. I’ve had all the injections in my left eye. And that’s OK. “The right one is hopeless. It means I can’t do the crossword and I have to find another way of learning things, which is through my friends. Thank goodness.”
Despite having her script text enlarged, her failing eyesight still causes her problems as she found while working on new film Belfast about Kenneth Branagh’s childhood.
As a result of new Covid protocols actors have to wear mask when filming and it made it impossible for Dame Judi to recognise her co-stars.
She said: “We all wore masks, but because my eyesight is so appalling, I used to go up to the wrong people a lot. Go up to the wrong actors off the set and not quite know who people are.”
Admitting her old age is also affecting her memory, she said: “I have more and more forgetful moments I’m afraid.
“Yes. I’ve had knee surgery. I’ve had a replacement on my right knee and an arthroscopy on my left knee.
“I mean, it’s wonderful but I’m falling to pieces in bits.”
Despite her years, Dame Judi still has no plans for slowing down. During lockdown she’s become a Tik Tok sensation with her grandson and is still hoping to learn the sonnets of Shakespeare – a goal she set herself at the start of lockdown last March.
She said: “During this lockdown, I just have tried to learn new things. I could do a huge amount of Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night and a few others.
“I really decided at the beginning of lockdown, I would attempt to learning the Sonnets.
“Well, I haven’t done that have I? I’ve failed miserably.
“So I’ve got a couple more weeks, I think before we might come out of a bit of lockdown, so I better get on with it.”
Dame Judi has called on Boris Johnson to ban fur sales. She is among 50 celebrities demanding the end to animal cruelty in a letter to the Prime Minister.
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