Judi Dench

I work entirely on instinct, nothing else. I'm a kind of animal. I'm not intellectual in any way. I never read plays; I just do them because someone asked me to. Tony Hopkins and I didn't know how "Antony and Cleopatra" ended during our first read-through.

Isn't that a bit naughty?

Not naughty. Dangerous. I've gotten myself into real trouble by saying yes to a play, then going to the first reading and realizing, "This is a bummer!"

You started making films quite late in your career.

The reason why I never made films earlier was because my face wasn't right for film and I was told that. I was hurt, but now that I've become older, it's become more acceptable.

There's some nudity in the movie. Would you be nude in a movie?