Dame Judi Dench was half-naked in front of Sir Kenneth Branagh
The veteran actress threw off a dressing gown, forgetting that she had nothing on below the waist.
Dame Judi Dench was “quite surprised” to find herself standing in front of Sir Kenneth Branagh naked from the waist down following a backstage mishap.
The director and actor went to see Dame Judi in her dressing room, to talk about their new film Murder On The Orient Express, while they were both performing on the London stage in Shakespeare play The Winter’s Tale.
The movie, which had its premiere in London on Thursday night, also stars Olivia Colman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad and Penelope Cruz.
“I went into her dressing room one night and she was sitting in her dressing gown.”
He added: “We are excitedly talking about the film… when we get the call to go on stage.
“I had the briefest of looks, but I can confirm, like the song, ‘there is nothing like a dame’!
“Her dresser ran to get her skirt and Judi went on clutching it around her,” he tells the BBC One show.
The Graham Norton Show airs on BBC One tonight at 10.35pm.
