{"id":3077,"date":"2023-08-02T16:58:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T20:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2023-08-02T17:58:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T21:58:37","slug":"judi-dench-reveals-she-no-longer-can-see-on-movie-sets-due-to-eye-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/2023\/08\/judi-dench-reveals-she-no-longer-can-see-on-movie-sets-due-to-eye-condition.html","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-Winning Christian Actress Judi Dench Reveals She Can No Longer See on Movie Sets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3098\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3098\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3098\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/410\/2023\/08\/judi-dench_credit-Denis-Makarenko-shutterstock-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denis Makarenko \/ Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench recently opened up about her struggle with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) revealing that she no longer can see on movie sets. Dench spoke with the UK newspaper Daily Mirror&#8217;s Notebook magazine and said that it&#8217;s becoming very difficult to learn her lines. \u201cI mean I can\u2019t see on a film set anymore,\u201d said the actress. \u201cAnd I can\u2019t see to read. So I can\u2019t see much. But you know you just deal with it. Get on. It\u2019s difficult for me if I have any length of a part. I haven\u2019t yet found a way. Because I have so many friends who will teach me the script. But I have a photographic memory.\u201d Dench revealed in 2012 that she had been diagnosed with AMD, but said she will try to work &#8220;as much as I can&#8221; despite the set backs. Earlier this year, Dench told &#8220;The Graham Norton Show&#8221; that learning her lines has become more and more difficult, saying it&#8217;s &#8220;become impossible.&#8221; She said, \u201cNormally somebody could just teach you the lines, and goodness knows that\u2019s happened before, but now I\u2019ve just found I have a photographic memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dench won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in the 1998 film &#8220;Shakespeare in Love.&#8221; She famously won the Academy Award for her role as Elizabeth I where she only had eight minutes of screen time. Dench, who is said to be one of Britain&#8217;s greatest actresses, has won two Golden Globes along with several British Academy Film Awards. The actress told Notebook that she tries to continue living each day to the fullest. \u201cI have an irrational fear of boredom,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I now have this tattoo that says carpe diem [seize the day]. That\u2019s what we should live by.\u201d Dench got the tattoo in 2016 as a gift from her daughter. At the time, Dench told Surrey Life \u201cThat\u2019s my motto: \u2018Seize the day.\u2019 Finty (her daughter) gave it to me for my 81st birthday. She\u2019s wonderful with surprises.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench recently opened up about her struggle with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) revealing that she no longer can see on movie sets. Dench spoke with the UK newspaper Daily Mirror&#8217;s Notebook magazine and said that it&#8217;s becoming very difficult to learn her lines. \u201cI mean I can\u2019t see on a film set&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":3098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oscar-Winning Christian Actress Judi Dench Reveals She Can No Longer See on Movie Sets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Judi Dench shares that she can no longer see on movie sets as she suffers from age-related macular degeneration.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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