Judy Dench’s outrageous behaviour made co-star ‘wet herself on stage’ | Films | Entertainment

Her long-standing mutual appreciation society with outrageous comic and actor Billy Connolly is well known. The pair famously bonded on the set of Mrs Brown over the mutual love of bawdy jokes.

However, he is also one of the few to receive a non-rude gift from her, describing a lovely hand-sewn cushion embroidered with “To JB (John Brown) from VR (Victoria Regina).”

Her Pride and Prejudice co-star Matthew McFadyen said: “She makes these like needlework embroideries on set in the tedium of filming, but they are all: ‘You Are a C***’. And she gives them as presents. And it’s Dame Judi Dench. And she is doing this beautifully, intricate, ornate… You kind of see the work materializing as the shoot goes on. Like: ‘You Are a F***ing S***.’

Co-star, Keira Knightley added: “She gives this fantastic air. She just sits there and she embroiders and you think: ‘Oh, that’s so nice! It’s Judi Dench. It’s so quaint; she’s embroidering a cushion’, and you go: ‘What are you embroidering?’ And (it says): ‘F***!’ Apparently she’s got hundreds of them just covered in swear words or rude sayings.”