Jane Seymour’s Advice: “Don’t Pretend to Be 20 When You’re 70. Be 70.”
In an industry known to not be especially supportive to actresses as they get older, Jane Seymour is a success story; the 73-year-old has worked steadily since 1970, starring in everything from the 1973 Bond film Live and Let Die to six seasons of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The actress, who is currently starring in the UK crime thriller Harry Wild, recently shared her greatest advice with actresses who aspire to careers like hers: Act your age.
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At the recent Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Gala, Seymour said to fellow actresses, “Don’t take it for granted. It isn’t easy. The balance of how you come across and how you conduct yourself is huge, sadly. But also I’ve never given up. I now have my own series again, and I’m in my 70s. So I say to women, ‘Don’t give up and be authentic.’ Don’t pretend to be 20 when you’re 70. Be 70.”
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She added that the event was “a great honor. “It’s wonderful because I’ve been working in entertainment since I was 13, so that’s 60 years, and to see how women are really having their moment now and telling their stories and telling stories [that] normally wouldn’t have been told is very empowering.”
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Seymour isn’t just celebrating the release of her new show, in which she plays a retired English professor who discovers she is great at solving crimes and begins interfering with cases assigned to her police detective son. Seymour also revealed that her son Sean is getting married next year, and that she is happy to spend time with her children, grandchildren and extended family, especially near the holidays. Not that she’ll spend too much time kicking back: In January, the ever-busy Seymour will also begin filming a movie in England.
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