Beloved veteran actress Judi Dench shared the grim reality of her failing eyesight, a condition that has forced her to step away from acting.

“No, you don’t [see me on camera], because I can’t see anymore,” she candidly told an ITV News reporter during a recent interview. Dench appeared with her longtime friend and collaborator, Ian McKellen, with whom she starred in a 1979 production of Macbeth.

McKellen joked that they could see her, and Dench responded, “Yes, and I can see your outline, and I know you so well, in your Macbeth scarf. But I can’t recognize anybody now.”

“I can’t see the television, I can’t see to read,” the Skyfall actress, who turns 91 on December 9, added.

The Lord of the Rings alum quipped, asking Dench if she ever approaches “total strangers [to] say, ‘Lovely to s

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