Judi Dench appears to have casually announced that her time on film might have come to an end. The Oscar-winning British star , 89, last appeared in the 2022 movie Spirited, starring as herself in Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds’ Christmas musical comedy film . However, approached by a journalist while attending the Chelsea Flower Show in London, she revealed she had no further projects on the go, responding: “No, no, I can’t even see!” Publications approaching Dench’s agent for comment were told that there was nothing further to add.
Dench suffers from age-related macular degeneration of her eyes, a condition that affects around 700,000 people in the UK. She spoke about her struggles with her sight with documentary presenter Louis Theroux in 2022, telling him: “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.” Widely regarded as one of the UK’s greatest and most versatile actors, Dench began her career on stage with the Old Vic theatre company, performing roles in several Shakespeare plays including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
She appeared in films such as James Ivory’s A Room with a View in 1998 before achieving international fame as M, the chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, in James Bond movie GoldenEye in 1995. She reprised the role in eight further fi.
