James Bond favourite Dame Judi Dench was told when she was starting out that she wouldn’t make it in the world of movies as she didn’t have the “face” for it.
The actress, who has a host of big-money movies to her name, revealed backstage at The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon that she had been told it wasn’t a career for her.
“I went and met [the director] and I was at the Old Vic at the time and he asked me some questions and in those days, you weren’t filmed and he said to me, ‘Well it’s been very nice meeting you but I’m sorry not this film, and probably not any film as you have every single thing wrong with your face’,” she explained.
“Well, I got to do a few films after that so I’m very pleased he was wrong,” she added.
The 80-year-old actress would not reveal who said it to her.
“I can’t because I’ve never, in all of that time, since it happened – it was a long time ago – have I said the name of the director, but it was for a big film.”
Judi is famous for her roles in the recent James Bond movies, along with a number of other popular movies.
