- Dame Judi Dench has revealed in an extract from her upcoming memoir that 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies was her most challenging James Bond film to shoot.
- The 91-year-old actor described her time on the film as destabilising due to constant last-minute script rewrites that left her with very little time to learn new lines.
- Dench portrayed M across seven Bond films and one cameo appearance, starting with GoldenEye in 1995 and ending her main run in 2012's Skyfall.
- She highlighted directors Michael Apted and Martin Campbell as favourites to work with, noting she enjoyed playing M when scripts explored different sides of the character.
- Tomorrow Never Dies faced significant production pressures and script changes following the death of long-time Bond producer Albert Cubby Broccoli.
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