Judi Dench is battling to save her eyesight.
The 77-year-old tells Britain's Daily Mirror that she's suffering from macular degeneration. At this point, she says she struggles to see faces in front of her and has to have friends read scripts to her so she can learn her lines.
"The most distressing thing is in a restaurant in the evening I can't see the person I'm having dinner with," she says. "I know there might be something going on but sometimes I can't see it and that infuriates me as I think I'm really missing out on something."
But she's not letting her loss of eyesight slow her down, and most definitely isn't retiring.
"As long as there is a possibility of working I'm not going to retire because if I retire nothing will work anymore and it's hard enough as it is," she says.
Dench is currently filming her seventh James Bond film, Skyfall, and stars in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, out Friday.
By Alison Maxwell, USA TODAY