Judi Dench says she accidentally FaceTimed her 'James Bond' costar from the bath
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- Dame Judi Dench says she accidentally FaceTimed her "James Bond" costar Ben Whishaw while in the bath.
- The actor opened up about the mishap during an interview on BBC's "Zoe Ball Breakfast Show."
- "I don't know what all those buttons are for, " the 88-year-old said, referring to her smartphone.
Dame Judi Dench revealed that she once accidentally FaceTimed her "James Bond" costar Ben Whishaw and fellow actor Chris Logan while she was in the bath.
The Oscar winner explained how the mishap happened during a recent interview on BBC's "Zoe Ball Breakfast Show."
It all started when her daughter Finty Williams reminded her to wish Logan a happy birthday.
"Fint rang me one morning and said 'It's Chris Logan's birthday and he's having a walk with Ben Whishaw, and they're in Regent's Park. Please wish him happy birthday,'" the 88-year-old said, per a video of the interview uploaded to BBC's YouTube channel yesterday.
Dench and Whishaw starred in three 007 movies together: "Skyfall," "Spectre," and "No Time To Die."
While Dench readily agreed to her daughter's suggestion, it ended up slipping her mind as the phone call went on.
"I said 'Of course,' and then we chatted," Dench said. "Then I did some things down here, and then I went up to get dressed and ready and I ran my bath."
As the '"Shakespeare in Love" actor was getting into her bath, she suddenly remembered the birthday wish.
Dench then demonstrated how she'd held her phone in front of her face after getting in the bath and called Logan, per the video.
She started her birthday greeting by saying "Chris, happy," but was interrupted by a gasp from the other end.
"It was FaceTiming them. I don't know about FaceTime. Poor Chris," she said.
Dench also admitted that she's not the best with technology, especially smartphones.
"My phone is anathema to me," she continued. "I don't know what all those buttons are for."
Earlier this year, in February, Dench revealed on "The Graham Norton Show" that her vision loss had gotten so severe that it was "impossible" for her to read scripts.
"I've had to find another way of learning lines and things, which is having great friends of mine repeat them to me over and over and over again," Dench said.