BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Dame Judi Dench lets rip on retirement!

Dame Judi Dench insists that, at 86, she has absolutely no intention of slowing down. ‘Retirement is not a word used in my house,’ she told me, extremely firmly, when I spoke to her this week about her new film, Belfast. Dench, one of the few grand acting dames still working, had been on the red carpet on Tuesday evening for the London Film Festival gala screening of Kenneth Branagh’s masterful autobiographical movie (and major awards season contender), set in Northern Ireland in 1969. In the picture, she plays Granny to a young lad (11-year-old Jude Hill) whose parents (Caitriona… Read Full Article