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'I can't even see': Judi Dench suggests retirement from acting due to blindness
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/28/judi-dench-retirement-from-acting-due-to-blindness‘I can’t even see’: Judi Dench suggests retirement from acting due to blindness
The actor suggests her extraordinary stage, film and TV career has come to an end due to age-related macular degeneration
Catherine Shoard
Tue 28 May 2024 05.24 EDT
Judi Dench has suggested she has retired from acting because of her worsening eyesight. Asked by a reporter over the weekend at the Chelsea flower show if she had plans for future roles, Dench responded: “No, no, I can’t even see!”
Representatives for the actor, 89, have indicated that there is nothing further to add. In Chelsea, Dench continued by saying she did have other projects in the pipeline, saying: “Our book has come out [Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent], we’re going to Cheltenham book fair and then I’m going to do three shows with Gyles Brandreth.”
Dench lives with age-related macular degeneration, which affects more than 700,000 people in the UK. She has been open about her diminishing vision, telling Louis Theroux in 2022: “I don’t want to retire. I’m not doing much at the moment because I can’t see. It’s bad.”
She added: “I have a photographic memory so a person saying to me, ‘This is your line …’ I can do that.”
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The actor suggests her extraordinary stage, film and TV career has come to an end due to age-related macular degeneration
Catherine Shoard
Tue 28 May 2024 05.24 EDT
Judi Dench has suggested she has retired from acting because of her worsening eyesight. Asked by a reporter over the weekend at the Chelsea flower show if she had plans for future roles, Dench responded: “No, no, I can’t even see!”
Representatives for the actor, 89, have indicated that there is nothing further to add. In Chelsea, Dench continued by saying she did have other projects in the pipeline, saying: “Our book has come out [Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent], we’re going to Cheltenham book fair and then I’m going to do three shows with Gyles Brandreth.”
Dench lives with age-related macular degeneration, which affects more than 700,000 people in the UK. She has been open about her diminishing vision, telling Louis Theroux in 2022: “I don’t want to retire. I’m not doing much at the moment because I can’t see. It’s bad.”
She added: “I have a photographic memory so a person saying to me, ‘This is your line …’ I can do that.”
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A great actress and woman; Dame Judi Dench.
