Jane Seymour is on the case in TV whodunit 'Harry Wild'
06.04.2022 - 22:55
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LONDON -- Jane Seymour had fun working on her latest project, the light-hearted whodunit series “Harry Wild,” with some exceptions.She plays a newly retired English professor in Dublin with time on her hands, who starts getting work as a private sleuth — to the dismay of her son, a police detective. Undaunted, she even takes a young apprentice under her wing. The series is streaming now on Acorn TV.Seymour, whose credits include “War and Remembrance,” “Dr.
Quinn, Medicine Woman” and “The Kominsky Method,” said there were many creative reasons she said yes to the series — and a practical one too.“There isn’t that much work for actresses after 40 anyway, but certainly after 70. I mean, there’s Dame Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and a couple of others. But I just thought this was just a wonderful, fun character and intelligent.
And I think we want to be entertained,” she said.Seymour, 71, did suffer for her art: She shattered a knee two weeks into the shoot while taping a scene, which had started out well.“As I’m running across and I’ve done it, I’m silently saying to myself, ’There you go, Jane, you could be an action character. You run like a gazelle. Who knows how old you are?'”Things took a turn for the worse on a subsequent take.“I’m running on asphalt, in the rain, on wet leaves with felt on the bottom (of her shoes).
Splat! I landed, I thought on my chin, which I did, but I didn’t get wounded that badly. But I all the way hit my left kneecap. Anyway, the whole crew thought that the show is over, and I proved them wrong.”A lesser annoyance involved drinking non-alcoholic red wine that was “absolutely disgusting,” eventually replaced by a better-tasting option.