Judi Dench Reveals Why A Director Told Her She’d Never Make It In Movies

Judi Dench faced the sexist sting of the movie industry before getting her start in films, telling The Sunday Times about a director who once criticized her looks. “He was perfectly nice,” Dench said an interview published over the weekend. “But at the end he said, ‘You’ll never make a film. You have the wrong face.’ And I said that is fine, I don’t like film anyway. I want to go back to the theatre.” Advertisement Dench went on to prove the director wrong with countless nominations for her work in film, including a whopping eight Oscar nods. She later… Read Full Article