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The 83-year-old, whose big screen roles have
included Queen Elizabeth I and James Bond's mentor M, said on
the green carpet at the Zurich Film Festival on Wednesday
evening she had been told early on in her career "you'll never
make a film".
Asked what her biggest achievement has been, the British actress
said: "I think making a film at all because I was told very,
very early on that I would never make any films... They said
'You have everything wrong with your face'."
"So, I would quite like to say to that person, who alas now is
dead, but I'd quite like to say - well, actually I did make them
in the end. Lucky."
Dench, who made her professional stage debut as Ophelia in
"Hamlet" in 1957, said there were more opportunities for women
in the film industry now "than probably there ever has been
before".
"I think it's going that way and that's good. That's always
good. So, long may it last," she said. "There are more swapping
roles now in the theater certainly and I think that's good,
gives us a fair share or a fairer share."
Dench, who has been in Zurich promoting her latest film "Red
Joan" - about a British scientist who spies for the Soviet Union
- , was also awarded the "Golden Icon" award at the festival,
adding to her long list of stage and screen honors.
"Golden Icon – that doesn't happen very often in your life does
it? And its such a great title," she said.
"I'm going to boast a lot about it."
(Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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