I am trying to make an actual TV show it's so hard to find a funny show that isn't FY I watch them but I don't want to let's do this fire like lots of fire so dedicated so cool where does it go from there you know oh I forgot your attention now this is bigger than you can handle you any plans for tonight what are you waiting for let's go cool [Music] absolutely please welcome first our moderator the amazing Jeff Conway from Forbes he was you can't even hear me can you oh here we go uh he was wearing amazing plaid pants yesterday so think that kind of inspired my outfit Jeff welcome and of course the incomparable Jane [Applause] Seymour I'm not sure all right testing better no I'm loud so hi guys welcome how did you enjoy Harry wildy so season congratulations thank you so thank you very much testing T okay so you are the star you are the executive producer this is season three how has the evolution of the series been for you Jane unbelievable um I was uh I was offered it um and I read the first script and I no I I read the first script I just met the uh Dave Logan who who did it um we chatted in London over a glass of wine which ended up being a bottle of wine so we decided that not only would I play Harry but she would not smoke she just drank wine and it has evolved from there in that um they then brought in the the incredible Joe Spain who is sort of number one or number two best crime um novelist in in uh Ireland and England she's just come up with her 14th book I think and she's considered one of the greatest plotters and the two of them together with me and with with the whole gang I I'm thrill because this thing is just going up and up and up it just gets better by the minute well your team sent me a bunch of the screeners so I got to watch everything up to season 3 now and I loved it wow thank you but my favorite thing I think you all would agree is I love a good like murder mystery but it's so nice to get one with some like levity and have some fun with it because it can be a pretty tough thing when it's not that way and I love that we get to have a little bit of fun with it do you enjoy that too oh I do very much you know I love playing comedy it's like my favorite thing so this ticks all boxes for me it's comedic it's intelligent I never know who did it you know even when I know it I keep forgetting it's it's so beautifully woven the characters are very real and the and the human condition is right there you know you care about Fergus you care about Harry they have this extraordinary relationship I mean they adore each other and help one another but they could not be more different if they tried and it's magical to see that woven in to the action as it happens as well and you know my age time my own series and be an action figure who gets to be comedic and irreverent it's so much fun so what would you say is your favorite thing about Harry and Harry wild um well it's really hard because first of all I love the character of Harry and I love how it's written um but it would not be Harry without Rohan Ned who plays Fergus um he's just magical to work with and uh the other thing I love is that we're doing it in Dublin and there are all these extra ordinary actors there and um sets and you know scenarios and things we can do there that we've never seen before originally it was supposed toate place in Cambridge but because I'm a non-resident English person I can only spend X number of nights in England so uh at one point we were going to do part of it in Cambridge and the rest of it in Dublin and then we looked around we said wait a minute Trinity College Dublin what's wrong with that so um I I you know I I I love working in Ireland it's it's an amazing place and you do have an amazing cast including I saw at the end as well Samantha Mumba so great I mean pop star we've known for years too you know what is it about this cast that feels special you've been on so many Productions over the years Jane what is it about the Harry wildcast it feels unique I mean every time I come on set with somebody that's just been cast that I've never heard of they literally blow me through the roof I mean I come in thinking oh I know what I'm doing and then they just come in with amazing performances and they my game and that's exciting it's like playing tennis with someone that's better than you and you go okay yes we can we can we can return that serve hopefully but um also there a lot of them are really young and and new and no one's seen them before and they're just they're magically good and um that young girl who plays my granddaughter Rose O'Neal she's never done anything I never I've never she great she's incredible and the first day she didn't even know how to stand on a Mark I mean she' done commercials and so I kind of saw it was going on and the director looked at me like what are we going to do and I took her aside and uh and I kind of worked with her a bit and she's phenomenal um and um I mean know Rohan keeps saying that he's learned stuff and I what they let me do too which is great is um they let me kind of almost not I'm not the director but I kind of get hold of all the actors and while they're setting it up um we all get together and we rehearse The Living Daylights out of it we come up with all this cool stuff that we you know we think would be be good and I have this little trick when we've done a scene and the director says yes we've got it that was great now we're going to move on if I feel there's something left in the tank as in something else that actor could do that would be even better not they haven't already done perfect or myself I asked for a freebie and because we're not on film and because it's not going to cost anybody anything other than another 3 minutes it's if it's a long scene um we have with this thing so I tell the other actors they don't know what a freebie means and I said that means you can do it upside down and backwards whatever just so long as you're somewhere where the camera can catch you okay let's go and and then they go really we can do that I go yes you've already got it right we don't have to repeat what we did let's just see if there's anything else there that we can find and then it is so exciting because we're it's like opening night we don't know you we know they know the lines but we don't know how are they going to deliver them now or what extra stuff they're going to do and so everyone's on their toes and every time the freebies of the stuff that we end up watching I love that as I mentioned earlier you are also an executive producer so what does it mean to have such a say and an AC of hand on both sides of the camera Jan uh it's fantastic I mean you know there are all the egos are left out the door I mean I know what I'm supposed to be doing um and what I do highly illegally don't look at me for sag well we aren't sags so we don't have to worry um we we get together with me on the weekend for some wine and some chat and some Chinese food and we tend to go through all the material for the next week and um the uh the writers are usually there you know having the wine and champagne is what they like and uh while by the time we kind of finish working on everything you know anything that we feel isn't quite working or we have queries about or whatever we have that time together so we really work on it and we come up with ideas you know and we were able to freely do it so anyone in our character can say oo Joe and Dave what about you know what maybe Fergus would do this or what do you think about that so we have that time uh together and because of um the expense of doing this we block shoot so those who don't know what block shooting is for example in the first series we did Eight Episodes so four of them the first four were shot by the same director director of photography and first ad um but if it happened in my house we would shoot in one day any one of four episodes if it happened in the Guard Station any one of four episodes so you know it's very confusing sometimes we had the same uh script girl as well so to do that and to wrap our heads around where we're at where we've been what's happening um it's um it can be confusing but we really put a lot more work into it than we are supposedly clocking in for fair enough so Acorn TV this is already a very big wellknown in Ireland England across the pond you know now with the states how are you noticing more eyeballs seen it here in America and how has that impression been from your perspective um it's really exciting people are just beginning to catch on and now um when season 3 goes out we're going to be on BBC America as well and I think that would be a game changer because I think more people know about that you know whenever I people say well where do I find Harry wild I say well Amazon Prime I mean you know and then you get Acorn and acorn has a lot of really good you know British British and um New Zealand Australian kind of shows but it's sold all over the world if you know that so we can watch it anywhere pretty much anywhere because I have fans in Germany and France and they actually really made a pilgrimage out to Ireland to be there when I was shooting amazing I know it it's what's happened is the Dr Quinn crowd that want Dr Quinn back so badly have decided that they like Harry so we've carried them along and then the most crazy thing happened the other day as a favor to some filmmakers they were making this little movie called Irish wish with Lindy Lohan and they needed someone to play the mother and they said oh come on Jane please and I said I can't I'm not there and they said where are you I said I'm in Dublin doing my show and they said uh we're in Dublin so so I end up doing two days on this thing which ends up being the biggest thing ever apparently in Netflix and um and and the crazy part was they then did the you know the logistic the the demographics why do they have such big numbers they had romcom they had Lindsay fans and then they had like a third of them were murder mystery they said why we don't understand that you this is a romcom why why are murder mystery followers and I said Harry wild that little secret thing that I do in Ireland I love that so that's what's happening so I hopefully the word will get out and um and I'm looking forward to you know doing lots of lots of Harries well Jane you bring up Dr Quinn Medicine Woman which you played for six beautiful Seasons I counted as seven cuz we did movies as well but yes seven years worth but it's so funny Jan I have to tell you I was telling my buddies that I was going to be interviewing Jane Seymour and of course they were like Dr Quinn but a lot of them were like kitty from Wedding Crashers like you have so many different generation demographics to your claim to fame it's isn't that so crazy that L Lindsay Lohan's mom right now I know Lindsay Lohan's mom you know on a cell phone I didn't even play a single scene Lindsay but so what do you enjoy what are you enjoying most though about your career today that maybe you didn't enjoying the same way in years past well now I get to play characters you know I I was really I mean honestly I'm so grateful and so fortunate but when I was younger I played virgins until I was 40 Dr Kum was a virgin for a really long time I mean maybe she was 43 I don't know how long a virgin I was they didn't have in vitro either anyway um no I I've had an amazing career I mean I I got to in the time of the miniseries I did every min series they called me queen of the Min series at one point but I mean I played Maria Callis I played um you I played um uh you know French Revolution um Marian tette I did that in two languages we haven't even seen that here it's an extraordinary thing but I mean I've had an amazing career and then I went and did wedding crashes and then he went oh my God she's funny but the crazy part was as you said the director and producer were young your age and they'd never heard of me except for the James Bond film The ubiquitous James Bond film so they thought they had discovered me at 65 and what had I been doing since I was 20 you were busy way before that clearly waiting for but uh now I now I'm playing women with Alzheimer's a wonderful independent movie that's now coming out on the seventh on video on demand it's in theaters at the moment called Ruby's Choice which I play a woman with Alzheimer's I did I it's a great movies again you laugh and you cry and You Weep and you learn and it's it's a fantastic little movie um which finally is come here and I just did a short never done a short before and that just opened a couple of days ago opened the Beverly Hills Film Festival congratulations and um so I really feel now I can put the gray wig on and I can age all the way up to 80s something and uh you know and play Harry and uh play lots of different things I've never had more work in my life than I have right now that's exciting it's crazy isn't it amazing yes thank you so you have been a staple in Hollywood and the international entertainment IND industry excuse me so we have so many fellow creatives out here today what advice do you have for them about emerging and getting themselves that impression within the entertainment industry today well I think you know the the beauty of today the good side and the bad side is that um you can pretty much make your own material and get it out there if you really want it seen I mean there is nothing stopping you using a very good iPhone getting some people you know who have talent that want to be seen writing it making it and making it in some form and you could even get it up on YouTube and someone will go wait a minute what's that I mean I I never imagined I would ever have to do um you know Instagram and stuff like that but my entire career right now seems to depend on me posting something every day I it's part of the job now but I think if you I always say to people um write what you know you know start out with something you actually know or you have a passion for and um and then um and surround yourself with people are really good at at whether it's cinematography or costumes or writing or direction or um other amazing actors um there's a lot of talent out there that nobody's seen and when we see them and they suddenly they're they're famous and they're so great you realized that you know they just were persistent and invariably they went and did something themselves where they could be seen you know you they always say well we we can't hire you because you're not known well you make yourself known you know I mean there are people far more famous now than me just because they're on YouTube doing what I don't know I mean dancing in weird ways with dogs and cats or whatever I don't know what they're doing well many other things too but um it you know if you have a story to tell tell it and find some people who are willing to do it with you I worked on the last movie I just did don't tell Acorn of course they're in the room H they paid me $200 a day which is uh the SAG minimum for an actress to star in a short did you know that hairdresser got 500 my wig got 500 yeah it's interesting isn't it yeah so but you have been known also for your other work Beyond Hollywood too you've had work with your jewelry company you've had the beauty industry how has social media maybe helped Elevate to more people even though you had a great fan base before this well I I was always an artist uh when I was a kid I could have gone to art school but I became an actress I became an actress by default I was a dancer originally and since my parents couldn't afford point shoes and I was dancing with the K off ballet at carment Garden the only thing I knew how to do was a knit and crochet so I created uh clothing and sold them in Kensington Market and in South Molton Street to a shop called Brown so that's I've always been designing and making things so that I could do the things that I love to do and then after I got injured um I was at a ballet school that required that you did theater as well and uh I was in the in in the core of Richard aten's first movie o lovely war and I was you know third girl from the left I had one line got discovered by the top agent in England and uh that was it so I am not a you know a normal I mean it's not normal but as you said the Instagram thing um I also produce I've just got the rights to a fantastic book called the truth about horses which um everyone now wants me to Not Just Produce but direct so that's what I'm hoping to do next and looks like it can happen um I produced a lot of movies with my ex-husband I did Glenn Campbell documentary albe me I did walk the line for which I got no credit but worked on that for 11 years um Johnny Cash and Jun Carter Cash gave me and James ke the rights to their life story I've done a but produce a lot of things so I I'm I really love being behind the camera too I even worked as an assistant director on the film once just to see what what that was like just cuz you had like a curiosity well I had a week off they wouldn't let me go home and I didn't want to sit around and they kept telling me every time I wanted something as an actress that they didn't have enough ad so I went to the ad office and said here I am I said what do you mean I said well I I'll be an ad I said ah yeah you're not going to be an ad and it was raining and it was I remember what it was The Awakening land and the first thing they had me do with the walkie-talkie and I had the little you know baseball hat on and everything they wanted me to row the crew across the lake they thought they got me there I rode them across and I rode them back and I worked for 4 days and I learned everything there is to know about behind the scenes on movies so I know how hard it is to get actors out of the makeup trailer I know how hard it is to get their Sparks not to get drunk and noisy on the last night when you're working late nights on a Friday and some actresses demands another take and they you yeah I've I've been there done it that's amazing so Harry wild season 3 what is the Outlook does does this go for maybe four five six seven seasons what's the game plan from your perspective Jane oh can you share something you look like you have something to say all right blink twice if we get a season four oh amazing congratulations yes where am I spending the summer this year oh we can wh Poss possibly Ireland oh yeah that sounds great yes it's a lovely place to be my last name is Conway it's my family I'll come join you yeah but you know I'm curious so far into season Harry wild such a dynamic evolving character if you Jane could say one thing to Harry wild after embodying her and knowing her story so far what would you say to her what would I say to her um gosh that's a tough one I I mean um I think Harry uh needs to um allow love into her life you know I think maybe there's a soft side to Harry and uh maybe maybe she dares try I don't know I mean she never got married the first time um I think she's pretty independent but I think she does enjoy uh people and I think she probably might enjoy some form of romance I love that well season 4 maybe some romance we'll have to wait and see everybody make sure you tune in to find out well in in season 3 there there is um another character that comes in that uh uh we really don't quite know who or what that's all about and there's you know there's the the there's the definite element that Harry might find herself interested or attracted to somebody very exciting so on the flip side of that question what would you Jane say to the Jane Seymour that was first getting into theater at after everything you've achieved and accomplished up to now what would you say to that young Jane that was up and coming trying to make a name for herself um you are so lucky but you've worked hard I know Lu I I work really hard you know when when they say and also I always remember Lawrence Olivia was you know there are no small parts just small actors I I I am a better actress now today by far than I was in what would be considered the height of my career I believe but then maybe it's because I've had more life experience and I feel um that I dare you know try something different and really play these extraordinary characters whereas before you know it was very much also you know did I look good and stuff like that as well although no my career's not really been like that I mean I've played a lot of characters I just I I can't even believe I as started trying to write my autobiography the other day and then someone said oh there's too many credits here you can't talk about what you did in your work like well what am I going to talk about then you know salacious gossip no that's boring um no I I I would say to young Jane whose name was Joyce oh my God you have no idea what an incredibly rich and exhausting but exhilarating um life you have ahead of you and what you will learn from putting yourself in other people's circumstances and shoes which is what you do as an actress I love that well I want to give you all plenty of time to ask your questions to Jane so does anybody have a question for Jane Seymour yes the sky Once Upon a Time um is there anything that you would say like one to three things as an executive producer coming into this series that you said I have to have this or this has to happen or this can't happen any life less um I I think I'm I'm going to be a lot more Hands-On this particular season also um because at one point they said would you want to direct some and I went oh I'm not sure whether I can do that work I don't know I haven't seen the new scripts so I don't know how much there is but I'm definitely 100% going to be um shadowing and learning that craft that's what I intend to do um I'm also you know working on projects um Harry related with uh with Joe and Dave um and uh I'm excited about um you know the amazing talent that we managed to find um I I always get excited by the amazing casting that we get we we were told that we are um the the you the casting said we we are the everyone wants to be on which that really makes me excited because I always wanted an environment where people would come and whether they had one day or three days or one scene they felt they were part of the whole and it wasn't like oh because I've been on Series where I come in do one day or one two or two days even after I've had my own series and it is so lonely and so scary and so I absolutely decided I was never going to let that happen on if I ever did another series and I'm not you know I go into the makeup trailer first thing in the morning and I go up to absolutely everybody and I do this well I'm now blowing it but I go I say I'm old and I'm having trouble with my lines can you help me can we run them that's how I get in there and then oh we'll help you out little old lady and then then we run lines and now I have an idea of what they're going to do they have an idea what I'm going to do we then start talking about cats dogs horses whatever it is we talk about parents whatever whatever and then we we become this um you know we don't have time for rehearsal so if I didn't do it with them it wouldn't happen and the fact that that the director and the DP um we all work so well together um there's no there's no kind of one person saying this is how it has to be we we work as a team all of us literally seamlessly and I think that's the magic so everyone that comes in knows that they can do their best work and also we all know what we have time for and what we can and can't do financially so you know the important thing is we want it on the screen and um so everyone's prepared everyone's ready you know I I did actually season 1 the first block of four the first four episodes I had a broken kneecap a smashed kneecap so when I was watching that promo thing I mean I had have a running double a stunt double and a walking double cuz I was on crutches there had three people just to pull me down on the ground so that when I was thrown down I'd be there already and then my face would pop up play the scene and then he'd go and then I'd put my face up again and then cam camera goes somewhere else and they're Lifting me up I mean it was crazy I it it's an insane job it really is but um there's a lot of acting goes on behind the scenes as well you know just pretending that you're fit any other questions for Jane yes right in the middle how would you say the industry has changed from living like die do oh my goodness I mean when I did Live and Let Die they made my underwear in triplicate in silk with you know French lace or whatever and and we never even saw the underwear um same with shoes and things there was an enormous huge set huge huge Crews um and I never really got I never really got to to rehearse I mean the actual acting part um was seemed to be unimportant compar compared to you know what James Bond's you know the next you know the next stunt or the next thing was going to be and and they used to nickname me baby burnhard because they thought I thought I was actually acting in this thing you know like Sarah burnhard the famous actress from back in the day um so I think now everything has to work faster I think because um we don't have to wait you know two days to find out whether we got it you know with film we would have to wait for um and then the it would be taken off and processed somewhere and then sent back and you'd watch the dailies and then you'd maybe have to go back and go back to that scene I mean how amazing it is that immediately after you've done it you know you can actually watch it and see if what you did worked or didn't and if it didn't you know exactly what it was that didn't and being digital you know it's it's almost like free so um uh it it's changed completely plus editing is substantially faster they edit while you're shooting so you know what you have and haven't got um oh yeah you know and and obviously now you know with special effects and things I mean if I want to be a 20-year-old Harry wild I mean they just flip a switch and I'm 20 you know never mind those hours in makeup where I'm say can we just touch out that bag under my like who cares any other questions for Jane yes right up there so lovely to have you here thank you for being here I'm very curious about a script choice that was made clearly this is Irish Ireland or possibly European or British but in the script it mentioned a million dollar currency of us why not Euros or Pounds uh was that the boy band yeah because they're an international boy band Like You One Direction or something and and you know no one would care about Euros um dollars would be um much more flashy as in international interesting good question any others for Jane you know I'm actually curious in the meantime too you know is there anything Jane that you don't tolerate now that you maybe did in the past within the industry and within sets and environments like that I don't tolerate people playing ego games at all I mean anyone that won't come out of their trailer I'd like them to take the trailer home bye I mean either you want to come play come play with our party or you don't um I I don't have time for any of that stuff I don't do it myself I never did I never did it on Dr Quinn I was always first on set for seven years we used to have call it the Sha tuvy award because that little boy he was always eager and ready to get out of school and run down to the set and everyone else would be walking the dog doing whatever else having a chat doing the crossword puzzle nobody cared as much and so I used to make this joke of running and I would run to the set to be first and I I just feel you know there are so many millions of people that would dream of doing one day of the kind of work that I get to do or anyone around me does you know um that I don't take it for granted at all and so when I see people either try to phone it in or they're drunk or they're high or they didn't learn the lines or you know they've got an attitude um there's no time for that anymore I think back in the day there would they wouldn't want that to be time for it but it would be wasted time now it literally looks like money that's being burnt in front of you and it's also destroying everyone else's amazing preparation and um and love of of their craft so there is no time for any of that nonsense anymore Beyond Harry wild too what are you enjoying about television programming today and video streaming that wasn't the same when Dr Quinn came out well I mean obviously I love watching things without commercial and and I love making movies that don't have to have commercials because when we did do Quinn you know every so many minutes there'd have to be a a moment and a closeup you know and then you have to wait for the commercial and then you come back out so there was no there there was no rhythm and the Rhythm was always messed up it's not that I'm against selling things but you know sell it before sell it after but just not in the middle of it and I I love um I mean long form as we used to have it um I I'd love if I have time watching two or three hours worth of of a show if I'm really into it that that's exciting it you know you're it's like reading a novel I mean they don't say after two chapters you got to put it down you know I I want to watch all of it and also when I did Dr Quinn and all the other shows I was doing I didn't have time to watch anything any television and you always had to watch it when it came out unless you somehow managed to figure out the you know the recorder and even then you had to find time to find it on the recorder to then watch you it was just too complicated so I I love what we have now I love the streaming channels um I like to watch a movie when I want to watch it and I don't mind paying for it I'll pay for an independent movie if it's good if it didn't make it because you know only the h1500 million you know Mega movies make it into the theaters um I'm excited to watch something that's really good that's an independent movie or a television series like some of the ones on Acorn that you would never have heard of that are hugely successful in in England or in Europe or in Australia New Zealand um uh and and you know just look at what happens at the Oscars it's never the big multi-million doll movies ever the movies that are in consideration are the little engines that could they're the movies that everyone had said no way you're not making that movie and those are the ones that win yeah and and look how many Korean movies are there did we ever think we'd ever see or know anything about Korean culture and we do I now have a Korean daughter-in-law so I really know about Korean culture so lastly if we head to Jane Seymour's house what are we watching The White Lotus are we watching Palm Royale what's on your queue right now I think I'm watching gentlemen in Moscow we just finished masters of the air because my boyfriend's father was one of them um in real life um I always watched the crown love the crown um I mean I started watching streaming when my kids kept talking about breaking bad and I thought why but I want to watch something about drugs why are they watching something about drugs I why is anyone watching something and then I got totally hooked and uh on on that so um and I tend to forget what it is I've Just Seen um I watch it love it enjoy it and then go to the next one I mean the bear was good what was it beef that was really good squid games remember I mean I'm trying to remember Better Call Saul um I I tend to prefer watching streaming I hate to say than um than regular television because I just don't I don't like having the material chopped up with you know now you've got to go and buy this medicine that might kill you in 10 million more ways than you would take it in the first place it's that puts me off Fair well everyone add to your queue Harry wild because gets really good in season 3 so congratulations to Jane Seymour thank you for joining us at seriesfest it's great to meet you you're you're a legend and we love you well I love what you're doing and now that I know about you I I hope I can come back and uh be part of it again and uh all of you filmmakers anyone who's in the industry never give up just never give up and there is no role too small or no um thing that you could work on that is too little trust me it's the ones you do for nothing that end up being the ones that you're most proud of and and move the dial so um you know always think out of the box I love it thank you all for coming