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17.02.2023 - 19:29 / variety.com
Zack Sharf Judi Dench has been quite open with fans over the last several years about her degenerative eye condition, which has made it increasingly difficult for the 88-year-old Oscar winner to learn her lines. In a new interview on “The Graham Norton Show” (via People magazine), Dench said it’s now become “impossible” to learn lines because of her eyesight loss. The actor has long prided herself on having a photographic memory when it comes to scripts, but she can no longer rely on it. “It has become impossible and because I have a photographic memory, I need to find a machine that not only teaches me my lines but also tells me where they appear on the page,” Dench said. “I used to find it very easy to learn lines and remember them. I could do the whole of ‘Twelfth Night’ right now.”
During a 2021 conversation with the Vision Foundation, a London sight loss charity, Dench revealed that she asks her close friends to help her memorize new scripts by reading them aloud to her as the repetition of the dialogue helps her. “You find a way of just getting about and getting over the things that you find very difficult,” Dench said at the time. “I’ve had to find another way of learning lines and things, which is having great friends of mine repeat them to me over and over and over again. So I have to learn through repetition, and I just hope that people won’t notice too much if all the lines are completely hopeless!” Dench remained in good spirits, even sharing how her eye sight loss has contributed to humorous moments on film sets. She said, “I was doing the ‘Winter’s Tale’ with Kenneth Branagh a couple of years ago, playing Paulina, and after we had been running for three weeks or so at the Garrick he said to me — I have a
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Oscar-winning actress was diagnosed with advanced macular degeneration in 2012 and has been dealing with the loss of her vision.While appearing on The Graham Norton Show, Dench admitted that she has found it harder and harder to read scripts and learn her lines.“It has become impossible and because I have a photographic memory I need to find a machine that not only teaches me my lines but also tells me where they appear on the page,” she said.“I used to find it very easy to learn lines and remember them,” she continued. “I could do the whole of ‘Twelfth Night’ right now.”In 2021 interview with The Guardian, Dench revealed that she asks her friends to help her with lines by reading them out loud to her.“You find a way of just getting about and getting over the things that you find very difficult,” she said at the time.
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Dame Judi Dench claims that her eyesight is getting so bad that she is struggling to continue acting.
Dame Judi Dench is opening up about a medical condition that has greatly impacted the way she works. For over ten years, Dench, 88, has been suffering from age-related macular degeneration, a condition that causes one's eyesight to worsen over time.
Dame Judi Dench has opened up about macular degeneration and how she now finds it “impossible” to read scripts because of her deteriorating eyesight. Dame Judi has previously revealed she has macular degeneration, which causes the gradual loss of vision.
diagnosed with advanced macular degeneration (AMD) in 2012 and shared that she has been struggling with the loss of her vision.While appearing on “The Graham Norton Show,” the Oscar winner admitted that she has found it to be harder and harder to read scripts and learn her lines — something she used to find very easy.“It has become impossible and because I have a photographic memory,” she said. “I need to find a machine that not only teaches me my lines but also tells me where they appear on the page.”Her photographic memory used to come in handy when memorizing scripts.“I used to find it very easy to learn lines and remember them,” the Dame said.
A heartbreaking update. Judi Dench revealed that her eyesight is making it difficult for her to memorize scripts for new roles.
Judi Dench is sharing an update on her deteriorating eyesight.