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    Judi Dench Needs Assistance to Learn Her Lines Due to Deteriorating Eyesight

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    Because of her declining eyesight, the ‘Blithe Spirit’ actress, 86, needs her friends to repeat her lines to her in order to help her memorize them before she’s filming a new project.

    Feb 27, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Dame Judi Dench is determined to keep acting despite her “intensely irritating” deteriorating eyesight.
    The 86-year-old actress suffers from age-related macular degeneration, which affects the middle part of a person’s vision, and she now has to enlist her friends to help her learn her lines for new projects by repeating them back to her, so she doesn’t have to keep reading from a script.
    “You find a way of just getting about and getting over the things that you find very difficult,” she said during an online event for London sight loss charity Vision Foundation.

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    “I’ve had to find another way of learning lines and things, which is having great friends of mine repeat them to me over and over and over again. So I have to learn through repetition, and I just hope that people won’t notice too much if all the lines are completely hopeless!”
    The “Cats” actress admitted she could walk past someone she knew and not recognise them, because she has to be “very close” to a person before she can identify them.
    “Finty, my daughter, goes and has her eyes checked,” she said. “It (her sight issues) is intensely irritating. But it does enable you to do one thing and that is that you have to get very close to people before you can recognise who they are.”
    “During lockdown I made a film and I was up close addressing people wearing masks during rehearsals, nothing to do with any scene I’m in. It’s kind of exquisite if you can do that and that’s the good side of it, and you have to look at that side of it.”

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      Leslie Mann So Nervous to Film Scene With Judi Dench That She Needed Over an Hour to Calm Down

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      The ‘Knocked Up’ actress is grateful to the British movie icon for her patience when the younger star needed more than an hour to calm her nerve on the set of ‘Blithe Spirit’.

      Jan 17, 2021
      AceShowbiz – Actress Leslie Mann has credited Dame Judi Dench with helping to calm her down on the set of period comedy “Blithe Spirit” because she was so nervous working with the screen icon.
      The “Knocked Up” star plays Elvira Condomine in the film adaptation of Noel Coward’s 1941 play and she struggled to keep her cool in her first scenes with Dench, who portrays mystic Madame Arcati.
      Leslie told talkRADIO, “It was so much fun, the first day I worked with her was in bed and that was terrifying for me because she’s someone who I have so much respect for and there I was laying in bed with her.”

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      “I think she knew I was nervous, I was probably sweating or something, and she went out of her way to make me feel comfortable and she set me at ease,” she continued. “It took me about an hour and a half to calm down, because it’s too close up, she was right there!”
      “Blithe Spirit” also stars Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, and Emilia Fox.
      Aside from struggling with her jittery when sharing scene with Judi Dench, Leslie Mann enjoyed most of the filming. She especially relished wearing the period outfits. “It was exciting to learn something new and a new way of doing things. All the costumes were so much fun, incredible to wear something other than what my characters would normally wear like jeans or t-shirts,” she said.
      “It was so much fun to wear the beautiful feather capes and the gorgeous high waisted trousers and blouses and just the whole thing. It was like a dream, so much fun!”

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