British Oscar winner Judi Dench says she is is battling to save her sight. The star said in an interview published Saturday that she had been diagnosed with macular degeneration, an eye condition which can cause blindness, and that her eyesight was already so bad that she couldn’t even read her own scripts. The 77-year-old said she was relying on friends and family to keep her up to speed with her lines. “It’s usually my daughter or my agent or a friend and actually I like that, because I sit there and imagine the story in my mind,” she told a newspaper during an interview.
“The most distressing thing is in a restaurant in the evening I can’t see the person I’m having dinner with.” Dench won an Academy Award for her role as Queen Elizabeth I in ‘Shakespeare in Love’ and is best known as intelligence boss M in the James Bond series. The 10-time BAFTA winner has more than 100 films and TV show s to her credit, most recently in the movies ‘J. Edgar’ and ‘My Week with Marilyn.’ She will next be seen in ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’.
