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A new season of the Irish mystery thriller\u00a0Harry Wild\u00a0<\/em>has been running on Acorn TV, featuring Jane Seymour in the title role. Seymour came to the attention of international audiences in her role as a Bond girl in\u00a0Live and Let Die<\/em>. She continued starring in movies while branching into theater and television, earning critical acclaim, including Emmy and Golden Globe awards. She was a role model to girls and young women, portraying a fearless, daring doctor in\u00a0Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman<\/em>. Now, in\u00a0Harry Wild<\/em>, she plays an assertive, determined, straight-talking retired English professor who uses her knowledge of literature to solve crimes. Seymour talks to\u00a0TV\u00a0<\/em>Drama\u00a0<\/em>about Harry and characters that appeal to her.<\/p>\n

\"***Image***\"TV<\/strong>DRAMA:\u00a0<\/strong>How did\u00a0Harry Wild<\/em>\u00a0come about?
\nSEYMOUR:\u00a0<\/strong>They sent me the script and asked me if I wanted to meet the creator, Dave Logan, which I did in London.\u00a0Harry Wild<\/em>\u00a0was a show I\u2019d never seen before\u2014[with] a character close to my age who is intelligent, irreverent, independent; she ticks many boxes that many women would like to be. It was humorous but, at the same time, grounded in humanity. It\u2019s intelligent because it refers to books and information you might not know and are now intrigued by. It doesn\u2019t take itself too seriously.<\/p>\n

I love the relationship between my sidekick [Fergus, played by Rohan Nedd] and me because usually [the audience would wonder if it\u2019s a romantic relationship], and instead, here is a pure kind of love and appreciation between two people who come from such different worlds\u2014they usually would have never met. They both enhance one another\u2019s lives. Then there\u2019s the crime [element] that is very different. And I love playing her. We\u2019re doing series two and three right now, back-to-back, 12 episodes, and it\u2019s even better. The character gets more fun. We\u2019ve got amazing backstories going on with some of the other characters.<\/p>\n

TV<\/strong>\u2008<\/strong>DRAMA:\u00a0<\/strong>You\u2019re also an executive producer on the series. What does that entail?
\nSEYMOUR:\u00a0<\/strong>When we first started, it was a choice of who\u2019s directing, what we thought about the scripts and all of that. But because I\u2019m working such ridiculous hours and am in every scene pretty much, I\u2019m not an admin person. I\u2019m most useful on the set. I\u2019m the one who sets the pace. All the actors hang out together. We don\u2019t sit in separate dressing rooms. We rehearse together. We play together. We have fun together. We get to know each other. So by the time we come on set, the director knows we\u2019re ready. Rather famously, we\u2019ve been told it\u2019s the happiest set in Ireland! Everybody wants to be on our show. I think it\u2019s because I like working with people where all the egos are left behind, and everyone\u2019s abilities and talents come together. We realize that we\u2019re in it together and nothing\u2019s ever perfect. It\u2019s a team effort.<\/p>\n

TV<\/strong>\u2008<\/strong>DRAMA:\u00a0<\/strong>You\u2019ve played dramatic and comedic roles. Do you have a preference? Is one more challenging than the other?
\nSEYMOUR:\u00a0<\/strong>The most challenging thing is when I\u2019m given material that isn\u2019t good. The trick is to get great material. I feel as comfortable in drama as I do in comedy. So, doing something like\u00a0Harry<\/em>\u00a0is perfect because it combines all of the above. I love doing out-and-out comedy. But to do good comedy these days, the style has to be more real than real. It\u2019s not set-up, set-up, joke, laugh. No, that\u2019s gone. What makes it funny is that it is deeply entrenched in something dramatic and real.<\/p>\n

TV<\/strong>\u2008<\/strong>DRAMA:\u00a0<\/strong>What do you look for in a role?
\nSEYMOUR:<\/strong>\u00a0When I first came to America, they told me that if I could lose my English accent, I\u2019d never stop working here. When I arrived, I couldn\u2019t even get a work permit. My agent fired me from England, saying I had made the biggest mistake of my life. So, many of those early credits were me proving I could play Americans from all over America, and I could play anything because I come from England, where you play everything. And very early on, they pigeonholed me as a Bond girl, which is a curse and a blessing at the same time, because it presupposes that you have looks, but you can\u2019t act. I broke the mold by going back into the theater and doing all the classics. And people said, She\u2019s a failure; she\u2019s going to the theater for \u00a350 a week. No, I\u2019m playing Lady Macbeth and doing Henrik Ibsen\u2019s\u00a0A Doll\u2019s House<\/em>. I\u2019m playing catch-up in my craft.<\/p>\n

If I look at my career, honestly, I\u2019ve forgotten half the stuff I\u2019ve done! My favorites have always been playing biographies. I loved playing Marie Antoinette in\u00a0The French Revolution<\/em>. I did that in two languages. I loved playing Wallis Simpson, and, of course, Maria Callas was incredible. I\u2019ve always been a character actor. When I did\u00a0Amadeus<\/em>\u00a0on Broadway, [director] Peter Hall said he had me because I was a dangerous actress. What does that mean? He said, Oh, you never make normal choices. You come up with very different ways of doing it that make it interesting.<\/p>\n

I bury myself in material that I really like. If I can find some good material, I go full-on and do my best. Recently, in\u00a0B Positive<\/em>, executive produced by Chuck Lorre, I played an 85-year-old woman, Bette, who thinks she\u2019s a 20-year-old rock chick and is a sexual predator in an old people\u2019s home. That was hilarious. Brilliantly written.\u00a0The Kominsky Method<\/em>\u00a0is brilliantly written. What a great, great role that was! Sometimes a very small role like that becomes something you\u2019re remembered for. The speech at Norman\u2019s [played by Alan Arkin] funeral was magical.\u00a0Wedding Crashers<\/em>, what a gift that was. And then a movie you probably haven\u2019t seen called\u00a0Ruby\u2019s Choice<\/em>, which I\u2019m very proud of, and I play a woman with dementia who has a very special relationship with a grandchild. I love what I do. If I think [a project] is good, there are good people attached to it, and I think I have something to offer, whether it\u2019s a small or large role, I do it.<\/p>\n

TV<\/strong>\u2008<\/strong>DRAMA:\u00a0<\/strong>You were a role model as Dr. Quinn. It wasn\u2019t usual to see a woman who thought she could do anything a man could do and do it with grace. And now Harry Wild. She\u2019s vibrant, determined and brilliant. And she has a mouth, I have to say!
\nSEYMOUR:\u00a0<\/strong>A mouth and a taste for red wine! Harry Wild is very much an independent woman who\u2019s smart but also learns; she is compassionate but not overly soppy. She\u2019s very sexy and sexually aroused but has never been married. If she sees what she wants, she enjoys it and then moves on. Like some men we know, right? Harry is still very feminine, but she doesn\u2019t have to be in lace and frilly feminine [clothes]. You made a point about Dr. Quinn being a role model. Harry Wild has become a role model for my generation now\u2014for many women who gave up and said, Well, I did the marriage, and then he ran off. I did the kids, and they\u2019ve gone off. I\u2019m lost as to who I am or what I\u2019m doing, and I realize I didn\u2019t do anything with my life. Or they were intellectuals, and they never had children. It\u2019s about being a whole woman and not being afraid to be it. Harry is around murderers and dangerous people with a stun gun\u2014quite useless! But she uses her wit, intellect and snarkiness to win cases. I love that. I\u2019m hearing from a lot of women and men. Men love this show, too, by the way. And it crosses generations. My son is the know-it-all detective who doesn\u2019t know it all. He\u2019s got a wife who has programmed their child to be the perfect child. She doesn\u2019t know it all. Fergus\u2019s family are alcoholics. And then there\u2019s my granddaughter, whom I now have a relationship with on the show. That\u2019s fun because she\u2019s also getting in on the act. So it\u2019s quite a young show. But whereas in most shows, I would just be the grandmother, this is my show, and there are two other generations. I love that because Harry\u2019s life is a three-generational, day-to-day life on the show. And in real life, I\u2019m very close with my grandchildren and my children. I love their friends and doing what they love to do. I haven\u2019t put my feet up and just said, hey, I\u2019m going to try to play bad golf. I\u2019m perfectly capable of bad golf, and I enjoy it. But I don\u2019t need to do that.<\/p>\n

TV<\/strong>\u2008<\/strong>DRAMA:\u00a0<\/strong>I recently read an article that said the key to remaining mentally young as one ages is to be with younger generations as much as possible.
\nSEYMOUR:\u00a0<\/strong>I produced the movie\u00a0I\u2019ll Be Me<\/em>\u00a0about Glen Campbell and then played a woman with [dementia] in\u00a0Ruby\u2019s Choice<\/em>. I realized I want to challenge myself now. I went back into the theater. I did\u00a0The Vortex<\/em>\u00a0on stage in Singapore. I feel I\u2019m in my prime now. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I don\u2019t feel like some people I know who are doing what they can to look younger. I appreciate every moment that I have. I\u2019ve lost so many friends already, and so many are ailing. I know it\u2019s my time next, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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