Judi Dench is finding it increasingly difficult to act due to her vision problems

She was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 1988, a Fellow of the Order of Companions of Honor in 2005 and a Fellow of the British Film Institute since 2011; she received her first Oscar nomination in 1998 and won her second one a year later with ‘Shakespeare in Love’; She has been in franchises such as ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and ‘James Bond’ and on the stage she played Ophelia in “Hamlet”, Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet” and Lady Macbeth in “Macbeth”. We are obviously talking about Judi Dench, one of the most talented actresses of her generation who is now facing a big problem: her eyes.

Dench, 88, has suffered from eye degeneration for a decade that has gotten so bad that now, as he revealed on The Graham Norton Show, it’s preventing him from even remembering scripts and, of course, acting: “Because I have a photographic memory, I need to find a machine that will not only teach me my lines, but also tell me where they appear in the script”, Dench says, “It was so easy for me to pick the lines and remember them. I could recite ‘Twelfth Night’ to you right now.”

That’s what friends are for

Despite the difficulties, Dench has continued to work and his latest film, ‘Hallelujah’ will be released in the UK on March 17th. In Spain we saw it in 2021 with ‘Belfast’ and 0’The Journey of Their Life’ and the previous year in ‘A Mocking Spirit’. “You find a way to move and overcome the things that are most difficult for you” explains the actress, “I had to find another way to learn the lines and stuff, which was to make my great friends repeat them over and over again… I did ‘Winter’s Tale’ with Kenneth Branagh a couple of years ago, playing Paulina, and after After having run it for about three weeks at the Garrick, he said to me (because I have a long speech at the end): “Judi, if you were to give the speech about six feet to your right, would you tell me and not the man?” [proscenio]”I trust people to tell me those things!”