Why Dench Doesn't Watch Her Own Films

Dame Judi Dench was honoured with the Moscow Art Theatres Golden Seagull Award for her contribution to English theatre.

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SHE has been nominated for 128 awards and has won 72 - including her 1999 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Shakespeare in Love - but it appears Judi Dench doesn't see for herself just how good her films are, since she doesn't watch them.

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"I still don't think it is very easy watching yourself and I haven't seen most of my films," she told Prince Edward at a charity event in St James's Palace, reports The Guardian."I find when it comes to it, actually seeing what your choice was with a role, you suddenly think it was the wrong choice to have made.But it's too late then.It's not like the theatre, where I could have another go the next night."

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The star of screen and stage also revealed to the royal (who is currently ninth in line to the throne) how she came to star in 2004'sThe Chronicles of Riddick, a film that she considers to have been "a flop".Vin Diesel convinced her to join the cast by showing up to her dressing room with a bunch of flowers "so long they couldn't get it up the stairs."

"You can't say no to a man like that," she said.