The long list of films Dame Judi has featured in over recent years, including No Time to Die and Belfast, suggests that she’s living up to her ambitions.
“On my scripts, my font is point-size 22, so you can imagine… If we’re doing a sonnet of 14 lines, all the others will have one page and I’ll have 14! It’s ridiculous, it’s a farce, but I’m not going to give in.”
The star recently admitted the extent of her support on set in a recent charity talk alongside Stephen Fry and Hayley Mills.
”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,” she said during a Vision Foundation Talk.
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