Judi Dench Looks Back On Director Telling Her She Had ‘The Wrong Face’ For Film

Judi Dench is known as one of the world’s leading actresses, but the iconic star was once told that she’d “never make a film”. 

The 87-year-old star looked back on the incident during a new interview with the Sunday Times Magazine.

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“He was perfectly nice, but at the end he said, ‘You’ll never make a film. You have the wrong face,'” she recalled. “And I said that is fine, I don’t like film anyway. I want to go back to the theatre.”

At the time, Dench was best known for her extensive theatre work. It wasn’t until 1997 that the Oscar winner landed a leading movie role as Queen Victoria in “Mrs Brown”. 

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Dench has since gone on the nab an Oscar, a Golden Globe and Multiple BAFTAs.