February 18, (THEWILL) – Judy Dench has opened up about her degenerative eye condition.
According to the Irish actress during an appearance on ‘The Graham Norton Show’, she said her worsening vision is making it increasingly difficult to remember her lines.
“It has become impossible and because I have a photographic memory, I need to find a machine that not only teaches me my lines, but also tells me where they appear on the page.
“I used to find it very easy to learn lines and remember them. I could do the whole of ‘Twelfth Night’ now”, the Oscar winner stated.
But the actress, who has been battling macular degeneration for more than a decade, isn’t letting the diagnosis slow her down.
Dench previously spoke out about her eye condition caused by age-related macular degeneration in a 2021 conversation benefiting the Vision Foundation, a sight loss charity based in London.
During the talk, she revealed how she’s memorised scripts ever since she stopped being able to read.
“You find a way of just getting about and getting over the things that you find very difficult,” Dench said.
“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!”
