--- description: The Academy Award-winning actress wanted to thank the producer for supporting her career title: Watch Harvey Weinstein Explain The Tattoo on Judi Dench's Bottom image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt025bb680069ca8ab/69877aa8a988ca7f8a6abf84/judy-dench-harvey-weinstein.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Harvey Weinstein Explain Why Judi Dench Has His Name Tattooed on Her Bottom by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 19, 2015 11:06 AM CUT  by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 19, 2015 11:06 AM CUT It seems that Dame Judi Dench has solved the question of what to get the man who has everything. When Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein appeared on the British late-night program, _The Graham Norton Show,_ he told the story of how he had helped launch Dench’s Hollywood film career by convincing her to take the role of Queen Victoria in 1997’s _Mrs Brown_, for which she earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination. As a thank you, the award-winning actress had “JD loves HW” tattooed on a very private spot. Even more surprising is the circumstances in which Dench revealed her tattoo to Weinstein. According to the producer, Dench showed off the ink during a dinner at the Four Seasons Restaurant, in front of a group that included Carly Simon, Nora Ephron and Mike Nichols. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3673460/harvey-weinstein-judi-dench-tattoo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3673460/harvey-weinstein-judi-dench-tattoo/"},"headline":"Watch Harvey Weinstein Explain Why Judi Dench Has His Name Tattooed on Her Bottom","datePublished":"2015-01-19T11:06:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:41:06.628Z","description":"The Academy Award-winning actress wanted to thank the producer for supporting her career","url":"https://time.com/3673460/harvey-weinstein-judi-dench-tattoo/","keywords":["celebrities","Harvey Weinstein"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt025bb680069ca8ab/69877aa8a988ca7f8a6abf84/judy-dench-harvey-weinstein.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt025bb680069ca8ab/69877aa8a988ca7f8a6abf84/judy-dench-harvey-weinstein.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Judy Dench Harvey Weinstein Tattoo","caption":"Judy Dench Harvey Weinstein Tattoo","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3673460/harvey-weinstein-judi-dench-tattoo/","name":"Watch Harvey Weinstein Explain Why Judi Dench Has His Name Tattooed on Her Bottom"}}]}] ```