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Dame Judi Dench is disappointed she never got to travel for her role as M in the James Bond franchise.

“I didn’t get to any exotic locations, not in seven Bond films,” she says in her book “Behind the Scenes.” “All I got was Stowe School, very nice, but not abroad, and a trailer labeled Innsbruck.”

Dench says of the role as the head of Britain’s MI6 spy agency, “I never thought what a huge responsibility I had in playing M. I think I was just really excited about it, and [husband] Michael [Williams] and [daughter] Finty [Williams] were absolutely mad about it—‘a Bond woman.’”

Dench, who first appeared in 1995’s “GoldenEye,” calls Pierce Brosnan “lovely” and Daniel Craig “hugely good fun. He does most of his stunts himself.”

Dench got back at director Sam Mendes for not allowing her to experiment when they did “The Cherry Orchard” in 1989 and turning his back when she tried something new.

“At last I got my own back in ‘Skyfall,’” she writes. “When he said could he suggest something, I said, ‘Well you can, but it won’t work!’”