How Judi Dench takes Kenneth Branagh's breath away
A couple of years ago, Kenneth Branagh was driving to Judi Dench's Surrey home to read her his screenplay and offer her the role of the grandmother for "Belfast," his personal story about growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1960s during the sectarian strife of the Troubles. Dench and Branagh have worked together now 12 times, so there's a shorthand and familiarity between them, a connection that Dench chalks up to them almost sharing a December birthday ("many years apart," the 87-year-old Dench notes).
Still, Branagh, 61, remains a bit in awe of Dench, still remembering what it was like when he first worked with her on a 1987 BBC production of Ibsen's "Ghosts" and he couldn't quite fathom that
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