Tea with Judi Dench | movie | 2025 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

Dame Judi Dench opens up her beautiful country home to long-time friend and sometime collaborator, Kenneth Branagh. From | dG1fVklRQWh0blB6dzg

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00:00I remember Dickie Briars, Richard Briars of his parish,

00:04were in the dressing room at the Tokyo Globe Theatre,

00:09and it was a Wednesday matinee and it was raining,

00:11and we'd been on the road for quite some time,

00:13and the call came through.

00:15It said, Mr. Briars, this is your beginner's call

00:19for Shakespeare's King Lear.

00:22And then very slowly, very deliberately,

00:23he turns to me and he says,

00:27I fucking hate acting.

00:30I said, well, why do you hate it?

00:34Why do you hate it, Dick?

00:35He said, well, it isn't any kind of job for a grown man.

00:39I said, why not?

00:40He said, well, you're just standing on a platform in tights shouting.

00:45What's the fucking point?