“I was at the lowest end of my life.” Jane Seymour on life before and after Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

After 53 years of playing 152 personas, you would think that actress Jane Seymour would be thinking about taking a break and enjoying the fruits of her remarkable career while sipping margaritas on a beach.

You would be mistaken to believe that.

In actuality, Seymour continued to work throughout the past few years, even though the pandemic forced many movie and television projects to halt. To the joy of her Australian admirers, she stayed in Australia while filming Ruby’s Choice, an Australian production in which she portrayed a grandmother suffering from dementia. She was also busy filming the TV series The Kominsky Method. She was recently filming the British detective drama series Harry Wild in Ireland.

As long as there are opportunities available, the 71-year-old will not be leaving.

“I currently have two more films in the works that are ready to be released. Additionally, I just appeared in the comedy series Be Positive, which is being considered for possible revival. Therefore, I have never had as much work as I do at the moment. That is insane, I must say. Through the computer screen, we can feel the actor’s energy even though we are not in the same room. She is friendly, well-spoken, grounded, and—perhaps not unexpectedly considering her comedic roles—very amusing during our time together.

“I enjoy performing [comedy].” I believe that when a movie like Ruby’s Choice is shown in a theatre, many people think, “Oh my god, dementia… it’s going to be so depressing.” She claims that they were sobbing aloud after laughing aloud. “I believe that there are moments in life when you laugh at situations that are too tough to handle. You simply must. Even when something is terrible, there are moments when you have to see the humorous side of it.

Seymour has experienced a good deal of destruction. When she was younger, she wanted to be a dancer, but she had to give up that dream due to an accident. She experienced an out-of-body experience while filming her 1988 telemovie Onassis after receiving an antibiotic injection that sent her into anaphylactic shock and causing her to be pronounced clinically dead. She was bankrupted in addition to having an affair with her third husband [Seymour has been married four times], who was also the father of her two children and later the manager of the company.

At that point, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, appeared.

“I was given that role when I was at the lowest end of my life,” Seymour says. “I was completely impoverished after my spouse lost all of my money when we were married. I was losing everything, even my house, and I had to work. “Well, you know, you’ve got this to read,” my agent remarked. At seven o’clock at night, he handed it to me. At ten, I read it. “You have to say yes or no and sign for five years by ten tomorrow morning,” he stated. However, because it was a dusty western, had a female protagonist, etc., he assured that it would never be a series. Naturally, we disproved their claims.

From her home in Malibu, California, Seymour tells Mamamia via Zoom.