Judi Dench: 'All I ever wanted was to be employed'
This can be disconcerting. However, there’s something else about Judi Dench that’s even more disconcerting. Certainly it’s not something I’ve ever written about a 77-year-old before: she’s sexy.
I suspect Dench herself would shriek with laughter at the idea – she doesn’t seem to take herself that seriously – but it’s true. And it’s not just me.
When I mention this to the PR afterwards, she looks thoughtful and says, 'Mmm, a lot of men say that.’
Based on Deborah Moggach’s novel These Foolish Things, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is about a group of pensioners who believe they can live in style in India for less money than they’d pay for a crummy old folk’s home in Britain.
Dressed all in black, her grey hair cut short as always, she sits straight-backed on the sofa, almost motionless, yet with an air of great alertness. Nothing, you suspect, escapes her. And when she trains her green eyes on you, she has a look that both
But it's always going to be the American movie made by a name director that has George Clooney playing a bereaved husband and father, a spunky, sexy teenage daughter, slack-key guitar stylings and gorgeous tropical locations — and that lost the
