Dame Judi Dench loves swimming naked.
Dame Judi Dench
The 86-year-old actress has admitted the feeling of taking her clothes off is “heavenly”, and said she loves taking a dip in the nude.
She said: “Well I do know the feeling of taking all your clothes off is just heaven isn’t it? I had to do it in a film, ‘Langrishe, Go Down’, in a passionate scene with Jeremy Irons where she puts cream on her nipples and he licks it off.
“And after we did the scene, we came out and it was teatime and the caterers had made meringues. That was very, very nice for us. Swimming naked is very good.”
And although she’s a fan of stripping off, she doesn’t want anyone to watch her do it.
She added on the ‘That’s After Life’ podcast: “I do that because we are lucky as we have a pool and you can quite happily do it sometimes if somebody isn’t going to come around suddenly. I don’t want to be caught at it.”
Meanwhile, Judi previously said she "loathes" being a national treasure as she feels it sounds like "something very, very dusty, behind a glass" and she feels "pressure" to be a certain way because of the title.
She said: "No, no, no. I loathe that word ... It's something very, very dusty, behind a glass, in a corner. I don't want to be a relic ... You know, you just get on with life, don't you? And hope that the job you've chosen to do you do as well as you can. That's all you worry about. And be kind to people That's what's so wonderful about this lockdown ... is people's amazing kindness. The general public are very, very kind. And to each other ... I hate to play parts that are expected ... I want to play somebody who you think is a benign old lady sitting in a chair, and in actual fact is bumping people off. I'm looking for a lot of villains to play."
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