Academy and Tony Award-winning actress Judi Dench detailed the realities of her eye condition, which has led to a loss of sight and her stepping back from the stage and screen.

“No, you don’t [see me on camera], because I can’t see anymore,” she told an ITV News reporter in a recent joint interview with longtime collaborator and friend Ian McKellen, with whom she starred in Macbeth in 1979.

When McKellen joked that they could see her, the veteran star responded, “Yes, and I can see your outline and I know you so well, in your Macbeth scarf. But I can’t recognize anybody now.”

The Notes on a Scandal star continued, “I can’t see the television, I can’t see to read.”

The X-Men alum then jokingly asked Dench if she ever goes up to “total strangers [to] say, ‘Lovely to see you a

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