Judi Dench: Acting Has ‘Become Impossible’ Due to Sight Loss

Judi Dench has been battling macular degeneration for close to a decade, but she shared a recent update that continuing acting has “become impossible” due to the loss of her eyesight.“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,” Dench said during “The Graham Norton Show” (via People).

“I used to find it very easy to learn lines and remember them.

I could do the whole of ‘Twelfth Night’ right now.”The Oscar winner previously said that she was determined to “find another way of learning lines,” including having “great friends of mine repeat them to me over and over and over again” to learn through audio repetition.“I have to learn through repetition, and I just hope that people won’t notice too

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