Judi Dench’s Reaction to Kenneth Branagh Asking Her to Play His Grandmother in ‘Belfast’: “Good Grief, I’m Not Old Enough!”

Judi Dench admits she couldn’t turn down a role in her longtime friend and frequent collaborator Kenneth Branagh's autobiographical film Belfast

Dench originally had balked when she heard she was wanted to portray Branagh’s grandmother — “Good grief, I’m not old enough!” — but over a “very, very, very personal hour and a half,” as he read the script , she understood.

“It sounds extraordinary, but in actual fact it helped create very much that family unit and strengthen the family feeling between us all,” she says. The onscreen family she’s talking about is, of course, Ciarán Hinds as Pop, Caitríona Balfe as Ma, Jamie Dornan as Pa and newcomer Jude Hill in the lead role of Buddy, Branagh’s alter ego.

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