Dame Judi Dench has fondly remembered her late husband Michael Williams and his great sense of humour in an intimate interview with Louis Theroux. The stage and screen veteran discussed her husband’s death in 2001 as she looked back on her life and lengthy career.
Theroux and Dame Judi met at her Surrey home for the second episode of his BBC Two series Louis Theroux Interviews. Speaking about her marriage to fellow actor Williams, who she married in 1971, she said it was “impossible to tell” what had been the foundation of their successful marriage.
“(His) sense of humour mostly,” she said. “Michael used to laugh and when he used to laugh he used to cry. I think mostly, interest in the same things of course, but I mean what is it? It’s impossible to tell."
