Oscar-winning actor Judi Dench says that a degenerative eye condition has left her unable to read scripts or see on set.
Dench, 88, told UK newspaper the Daily Mirror’s Notebook magazine on Sunday that it’s hard to learn lines with her condition. “I mean I can’t see on a film set anymore,” said Dench. “And I can’t see to read. So I can’t see much. But you know you just deal with it. Get on. It’s difficult for me if I have any length of a part. I haven’t yet found a way. Because I have so many friends who will teach me the script. But I have a photographic memory.
” “Normally somebody could just teach you the lines, and goodness knows that’s happened before, but now I’ve just found I have a photographic memory,” she said. Her memory is so impressive that she said she’s able to recite the whole of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” The critically acclaimed actress of stage and screen, who has won two Golden Globes and several BAFTAs, also told Notebook that she tries to live each day to the full. “I have an irrational fear of boredom,” she said.
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