She's a respected national treasure – but Dame Judi Dench admits she has a penchant for swearing. The 85-year-old potty mouth says she loves literary legend William Shakespeare because of his use of expletives.
She said: “Shakespeare is my passion – ever since I was a really small girl. I was about seven, I think, and I was taken to see my brothers in Macbeth at their school in York. “My eldest brother was playing Duncan and he came on and said, ‘What bloody man is that?’ “In one instance I thought, ‘Not only Shakespeare, but swearing as well.
This is for me’.” Judi said in a talk with Royal Shakespeare Company members earlier this month: “I am rather liberal with swear words.
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