Dame Judi Dench is sharing a stark new update about her eyesight, describing just how much her vision has changed.
In a clip from her interview with CBS Sunday Morning, which aired November 8, the 91-year-old actor said her eyesight was “completely blown.” Dench explained that she has macular degeneration, the same condition her mother had. “They can’t do anything about it,” she said.
Asked what she could see of interviewer Seth Doane, Dench replied, “I can see an outline. I can see your shirt collar, and I can see your hands.” She added that she might meet him the next day and fail to recognize him: “I can’t see anybody anymore.”
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Dench said she can no longer watch television or read clearly. She also recalled using contact lenses until fairly recently, but said, “nobody suggested that stronger ones would do me any good.”
The conversation expanded on the update she gave last month. In an October 22 interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today program, Dench said she could no longer act onstage or in films, or read. She was diagnosed with age-related disease in 2012, a condition that affects central vision and can make reading and recognizing faces difficult.
When Doane asked if her condition was frightening, Dench responded, “Like anyone who’s got it, you have to live with it.” She has previously described the adjustments required, saying, “So you’ve got to adjust to all that, and make allowances for it and just get on and don’t think about it too much.”
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Dench’s CBS interview also touched on her long career and new memoir, Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?, written with actor Brendan O’Hea. The book looks back on her life in theater and film, including her role in The Chronicles of Riddick.
In the book, she recalled how Vin Diesel came to see Dench at London’s Haymarket Theatre to ask her to play Aereon, an alien ambassador who guides his character, Richard B. Riddick, in the film. Before the meeting, he sent her such a large bouquet that it couldn’t be carried up the stairs to her dressing room and had to be left at the stage door.
“They were easily the length of a kayak. And as wide,” Dench recalled. She joked that the flowers had done the trick. “I’m cheap as chips, me. Far too easily wooed.”
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