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Judi Dench Doesn’t Mind Using Her Poor Eyesight as an Excuse to Ditch Events

Judi Dench offered an update on her poor eyesight, saying she can no longer attend events alone because she 'walk into something or fall over.'

In a 2023 interview on The Graham Norton Show, Dench spoke about how AMD has curtailed her acting career, saying the condition had made it “impossible” to learn her lines from a script. Dench’s last two feature film appearances came in 2022 when she made a short cameo in the Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds Christmas comedy Spirited and took on a larger part in Richard Eyre’s Allelujah. Over the past couple of years, she’s made a handful of live appearances — including a Christmas show in London where she honored the late Maggie Smith — and popped up on several TV specials and documentaries.

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