Oscar-winning actor Judi Dench says that a degenerative eye condition has left her unable to read scripts or see on set.

Dench, 88, told UK newspaper the Daily Mirror’s Notebook magazine on Sunday that it’s hard to learn lines with her condition.

“I mean I can’t see on a film set anymore,” said Dench.

 

“And I can’t see to read. So I can’t see much. But you know you just deal with it. Get on. It’s difficult for me if I have any length of a part. I haven’t yet found a way. Because I have so many friends who will teach me the script. But I have a photographic memory.”

Dench, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role as Elizabeth I in the 1998 film “Shakespeare in Love,” revealed in 2012 that she had been diagnosed with the eye condition, called age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Despite these difficulties, Dench said she will try to work “as much as I can.”

 

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Sad news.

 

She is one of the greatest actors alive today.