Judi Dench has revealed a surprising admirer who used his wiles to convince her do a film with him.<\/p>\n
That smooth operator was none other than Vin Diesel.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe came to see me at the Haymarket Theatre to ask if I\u2019d be in The Chronicles of Riddick,\u201d the actress shared in her new memoir Is It Too Late To Make A Run For It?<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore he arrived, he sent me such a massive bunch of flowers. They couldn\u2019t get them up the stairs to my dressing room… They were easily the length of a kayak. And as wide.\u201d<\/p>\n
The grand display worked and the Dame was cast as Aereon, an Elemental who calculates odds to prophesize the future with shocking accuracy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m cheap as chips, me. Far too easily wooed,\u201d she jested.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t say no to a man like that, can you?\u201d<\/p>\n
The Fast and Furious alum is not the only one whose won the Dame over with a thoughtful gift.<\/p>\n
She also shared that Kenneth Branagh once surprised her with \u201cthe most wonderful embroidered handkerchief.”<\/p>\n
That present was to playfully incentivise Dench to take a role in Branagh\u2019s film Murder on the Orient Express.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe must\u2019ve known that\u2019d make me say yes; he\u2019s so sneaky. But then I\u2019d do anything for Ken.\u201d<\/p>\n
She went onto star as Russian Princess Natalia Dragomiroff, one of the main characters in the classic Agatha Christie whodunnit.<\/p>\n
Dench revealed too in the book that she herself had given some fanciful gifts in her time.<\/p>\n
She shared that the playwright, David Hare, \u201conce asked [her] to make him a cushion with something rude written on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hare said he looked forward to having a giggle when his mother came to see it, knowing she\u2019d remark on the \u201ccharming cushion\u201d while not being able to read it clearly.<\/p>\n
Dench, who is an avid cross-stitcher, did not disappoint.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember doing that \u2013 it was very complicated \u2013 a swirl pattern. But if you studied it closely, it said, \u2018F*** off.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Hare isn\u2019t the only one whose witnessed such elegant profanity from the Dame.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Premiere Magazine, Matthew Macfadyen and Keira Knightley\u00a0 -who worked with Dench on Joe Wright\u2019s Pride & Prejudice- also noticed her savviness with cushions.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe just sits there and she embroiders and you think: \u2018Oh, that’s so nice! It’s Judi Dench. It’s so quaint; she’s embroidering a cushion,\u2019\u201d Knightley recalled.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you go: \u2018What are you embroidering?\u2019 And [it says]: \u2018F***!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judi Dench has revealed a surprising admirer who used his wiles to convince her do a film with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[525004,441213,466424,525008,378308,34942,525052,400971,525000,508403,377579,525020,402304,382482,525027,525046,525021,525011,525053,525010,525003,525031,376870,525038,525036,64,63,15453,525033,525007,447,44950,525005,289987,525015,53378,176895,62118,286055,525055,5517,77084,187849,189484,153272,134,69351,525006,21184,528,525032,89660,525009,390924,525025,525001,525054,376931,380020,525002,10364,506715,422667,30108,456725,88060,111844,100231,235362,525023,525037,2022,14120,154039,41799,407428,525029,7468,525051,525049,6054,29713,20246,525047,58070,525018,525043,525022,525013,525024,4031,525048,525050,87236,525017,525034,525035,56602,525016,376865,525012,524999,525026,525045,131558,525040,525041,400468,525028,525014,525044,381310,525039,525019,525042,378842,525030,411036,34478,6053],"class_list":["post-957828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-s-film-murder","tag-s-idea","tag-s-new-memoir","tag-s-pride-prejudice","tag-378308","tag-34942","tag-a-cushion","tag-a-film","tag-a-giggle","tag-a-kayak","tag-a-man","tag-a-promotional-press-interview","tag-a-role","tag-a-run","tag-a-surprising-admirer","tag-a-swirl-pattern","tag-a-thoughtful-gift","tag-aereon","tag-an-action-superstar","tag-an-avid-cross-stitcher","tag-an-elemental","tag-an-extravagant-gift","tag-an-interview","tag-any-guy","tag-ap-photo","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bond","tag-bouquet","tag-branagh","tag-celebrities","tag-chips","tag-cross-stich","tag-cushion","tag-cushions","tag-dame","tag-dame-judi-dench","tag-daniel-craig","tag-david-hare","tag-dench","tag-diesel","tag-dwayne-johnson","tag-elemental","tag-embroidery","tag-emma-corrin","tag-entertainment","tag-flowers","tag-fun-facts","tag-funny","tag-getty-images","tag-getty-images-hare","tag-grandma","tag-hare","tag-her-character","tag-her-dressing-room","tag-her-new-memoir","tag-her-savviness","tag-her-time","tag-his-mother","tag-his-wiles","tag-hobby","tag-hollywood-action-star","tag-jack-lowden","tag-james-bond","tag-joe-wright","tag-judi-dench","tag-keira-knightley","tag-ken","tag-kenneth-branagh","tag-kenneth-branagh-and-judi-dench","tag-knightley","tag-london","tag-mastercard","tag-matthew-macfadyen","tag-memoir","tag-my-dressing-room","tag-none-other","tag-odds","tag-olivia-coleman","tag-orient-express","tag-paul-walker","tag-pearls","tag-picture","tag-premiere-magazine","tag-pride-and-prejudice","tag-riddick","tag-russian-princess-natalia-dragomiroff","tag-shocking-accuracy","tag-some-fanciful-gifts","tag-something-rude","tag-star","tag-such-a-massive-bunch","tag-such-elegant-profanity","tag-swearing","tag-that-present","tag-that-smooth-operator","tag-the-charming-cushion","tag-the-actress","tag-the-bond-film-skyfall","tag-the-book","tag-the-chronicles","tag-the-classic-agatha-christie-whodunnit","tag-the-dame","tag-the-fast-and-furious-alum","tag-the-future","tag-the-grand-display","tag-the-haymarket-theatre","tag-the-length","tag-the-main-characters","tag-the-most-wonderful-embroidered-handkerchief","tag-the-olivier-awards","tag-the-only-one","tag-the-orient-express","tag-the-playwright","tag-the-royal-opera-house","tag-the-stairs","tag-this-majestic-woman","tag-tyrese-gibson","tag-universal-pictures","tag-vin-diesel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}