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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 28 November 2019
Jane Seymour on finding new love in her mid-60s: No Tinder

By AMANDA LEE MYERS The Emmy- and Golden
Associated Press Globe-winning actress has
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jane four children and two step-
Seymour was in her mid-60s children from her four mar-
when her husband of 20 riages.
years decided it was over. On top of acting and a
The actress was floored. busy family life, Seymour
"I had a long marriage and designs furniture and jew-
never thought it was go- elry. Seymour recently had
ing to end," the 68-year-old a one-woman art show
said recently while pro- in Washington, D.C., she
moting the second season writes books, runs a non-
of Netflix's "The Kominsky profit and produces mov-
Method," co-starring Mi- ies.
chael Douglas and Alan "I do what I do because
Arkin. I love it," she said. "I don't
"I'm going, 'I what? I date? think of it ever as a job ...
What? Are you crazy? How It's called living. So I don't
does this work?'" Seymour see retiring. You don't retire
said. "And then my kids from life."
would say, 'Mom, there's In fact, Seymour said her
this thing called Tinder.' own children have a tough
And I'm like, 'No, that's not time keeping up with her.
going to happen.'" "Inside of me, I'm 20. OK? I
But similar to her character hang out with my 23-year-
in "The Kominsky Method" old boys, and the other
who runs into an old flame, day I was with them run-
fate intervened, and Sey- ning around Europe and
mour stumbled upon new they said, 'Mom, can you
romance. She has been slow down?'" she said. "I
with boyfriend and British went, 'No, this is the pace
film director David Green at which I go and you are
since 2014, about a year a third of my age, so you
after her divorce from film- better just catch up with
maker James Keach, who Mama.' I just love life."
directed "Dr. Quinn, Medi- With age, she said, has
cine Woman," Seymour's come "more of a freedom
iconic role. in kind of accepting who I This Oct. 6, 2019 photo shows actress Jane Seymour posing at The Four Seasons Hotel in Los Ange-
"Accidentally I ran into am and what I look like and les to promote her role in "The Kominsky Method."
somebody I knew 38 years how I feel now than I did Associated Press
earlier who had been in a when I was younger, when I
long marriage and his mar- was trying maybe too hard time ago not to do all the
riage ended," she said. "It to be something." things that other people do
wasn't his choice and my Seymour first caught the because I'm not trying to
marriage ended, it wasn't eye of audiences when she look like me when I'm 20 or
my choice. And we ran- played Bond girl Solitaire in 30. It's kind of pointless," she
domly met accidentally 38 1973's "Live and Let Die." said. "So, I just thought, let's
years later and realized we Asked what it's like to be a put on a gray wig and have
were free, and we've been sex symbol for nearly five some wrinkles and actually
together ever since. So I do decades and well into her play characters."
not have to date." 60s, Seymour scoffed. Seymour said she's one of
Her experience drew Sey- "I've never thought of it that the lucky actresses who've
mour to "The Kominsky way," she said, noting that landed great roles after 40.
Method," in which she plays she and her Bond charac- "Hollywood's been pretty
Madelyn, who reconnects ter were both virgins. "So good to me, actually," she
with Arkin's character (Nor- hardly a sex symbol. I didn't said. "Back in the day, they
man) at a funeral following know what sex was." used to say if you're a wom-
the deaths of their spouses. Since then, Seymour has an and you're 40, you're
"I do get this whole thing posed in "Playboy" three done. Well, when I was 40,
of having a relationship times, in 1973, 1987 and last I got 'Dr. Quinn.' So that's
with someone that's a con- year, when the magazine when I started. And to be
temporary, you know?" said the actress "is more honest, right now I feel like
Seymour said. "We're both of a sex symbol now than this is my moment because
dealing with older children, when she played a Bond there's all these amazing
exes and our future ... how girl." characters that I can now
long will we live? How can To Seymour, sexy means play without having to wor-
we stay healthy? How can being comfortable in your ry about whether I look like
we tick off our bucket list? own skin at every age. a leading lady.
Do we still want to work or That's why she hasn't had Her eyes glimmered: "And I
do we feel like we've only plastic surgery, the actress can still play it like a lead-
just started, which is the said. ing lady if I put my hair and
case with me and David." "I made a choice a long makeup together."q