Jane Seymour and Dr. Quinn - Metro Cafe On-Set Archives

as you know Metro Cafe brings you behind the scenes of the hottest television shows this one is set in the 1800s in a small town in Colorado but really it's 1996 and this is Southern California Jane Seymour invited me down to the set of Dr Quinn Medicine Woman eight of them she's had twins the producer's going to have twins uh Lisa her makeup artist just had a baby today which just took today hours old um three other uh actors on pregnancy clothes out there too especially for women who want to look good at an older age and not hide it so I'm going to make bike panss these I mean U tights they have a special support that they can hook onto their back so that it kind of actually holds the baby especially for women with twins but there's never anything funky in maternity stuff it's all like like people who somehow want to hide that they're pregnant or something and if if you're small if you're a little petite person you can get away with buying just baggy right and but if you're a big woman it's really hard to find stuff that looks decent I mean you know and you have those pregnancy places and there just those really I think that would look really nice you know I think would be so we'll see if that takes off and then wedding dresses because man you could well I I had the ladies build my wedding dress and um you couldn't have you could not have gotten my wedding dress cuz it was all PTO SW set and I had it embroidered up here on the top and it said VRA which means you and no other and I gave him a little speech you know it can be done much it can be done with good taste and cheaper but I don't know we'll see maybe it's tough though I did a modeling thing believe it or not um for this wedding um it was more like a wedding convention and they wanted a bunch of girls at this particular stand for this store and all these wedding dresses and I'd never even been around it most of my friends haven't been married yet and I have never been a Made of Honor or anything so I'm in this store and I'm just like e everything how depress was set it's it is low in the here you can't tell it's not a very good good photo there were people on the boat stopping her going where where get this dress that dress I actually like back dress back this dresses for me but you always get like three or four bridesmaids in the back and it has a satin collar that goes all the way around Beau um silk satin but um just a nice looking wedding party yeah lovely [Music] here I am finish playing with the hores yeah he's a cool guy you probably see him more often than I do there you go he's so busy oh yeah jtine it's all yours okay Jane you're not really pregnant anymore no I am not this is all fake so that's I'm sure the most exciting thing in your life right now tell me a little about the twins oh they're they're fantastic and uh you know I can't get enough of them I every spare moment I'm with them playing with them and they grow so fast you know just it's amazing I don't remember my other kids changing that quickly but these guys if I leave them alone for half an hour they seem to have grown and the next thing is the Golden Globe have you won other Golden Globes I won a Golden Globe last well the first baby I had when I had Katie I won a Golden Globe and that was for East of Eden and I've been nominated about six or seven times a lot of times but this is my second win so you think maybe pregnancy hormones get those acting juices flowing I think it's pretty specific I think it's when I'm feeding babies that I who where's this horse going oh that's okay little little action yeah I I think having babies obviously helped my odds with the golden clothes that's great so now um we want to talk about the costumes here you you have a lot of input in your costumes is that right that's right um well Sher it's it's great because she lets me work with her and and come up with ideas and uh when we started out she was doing the wedding dress for example I was in England that winter and so I went to around all the antique shops and I brought back all these great laces and great collars and things and some fabulous fabrics and and so you know I bring stuff over from stores that were established in the 1860s and and I bring them here and then she turns them into these wonderful dresses and you know we discuss you know what we're going for what we're trying to do but she's really brilliant at what she does and so I never really have to worry and I was just stepping right into them did she ever come up with things that you don't really like or are things kind of checked out before they get to that stage she fortunately seems to have the same taste that I do when I when we put something on and something isn't working we both seem to see it at the same time but invariably that doesn't happen it usually looks really good great in fact I don't know if you ever saw the TV Guide cover on um the American TV Guide cover when I was pregnant the big velvet dress well she made that the night before no one asked her to and it was never fitted she just showed up and said you might want to wear this and I did and it's just the most beautiful pregnancy dress you could ever have she didn't sleep that night I don't think she did no I I happened to know she was personally making that at home tell me about um To Live and Let Die was that one of your first big breaks do you see it that way now or um definitely I I was 20 when I did that and uh I starred in um a series called the anidan line which the only other series I've ever done which happens to take place in the same time period that we're doing right now but um that was my first big film break and uh it it was very exciting very daunting first time I came to America I thought New Orleans was America that was the first place I ever saw is New Orleans and I got mugged in my first week so yeah and I think the second time I came to America I was arrested at the airport in Miami because I had the wrong kind of visa and you know and I made the Fatal mistake of telling them that they were stupid oh no they didn't like that wow so was that um Roger Moore Sean connory uh Roger Moore it was the first one that Roger did oh I see yeah that's cool I I like Shawn I'm a Shawn fan me too so what about ad Quinn I mean it's just a phenomenon I think 73 countries why what do you think has made it catch on so well um I think it's even more countries than that I think it's 82 countries the last count but I think it's because it's about The Human Condition it's about human beings and and dealing with uh being a Pioneer being you know being like a fish out of water dealing with adversity and dealing with family dealing with um emotional problems and physical problems and racial and and all the things that really travel through time and obviously through place because it it seems to be as popular in China and Japan and Africa as it is here wow it's great do do they ever do anything with the scripts or with your character that that you don't think are right and so do you ever have disputes with with where a direction Something Is Going no I have not it's amazing because everyone asks me that and they say you know don't you have to work on the scripts and everything and on the contrary the scripts come in and they're really pretty pretty good and uh I don't think I've commented once I think I've I've I've come up with ideas that they've written I've come up with at least half a dozen shows that you know someone else has then written but they were my ideas originally just the concept for that episode yes I you know I'm invited to come up with ideas and if I come up with ideas I throw them in the hopper and you know someone goes and writes a wonderful script on it and always makes it a better idea so I feel like I'm very involved in it but um Beth Sullivan and her gang do a wonderful job with the scripts and yeah it's it's a really great show good quality show um how far in advance are you shooting usually oh it um you never it's each show is different but for example we shot something on Friday night at midnight that goes into next Saturday's show so I think that's as next Saturday so that's pretty close very close I think I think they were missing one scene they needed another two and a half minutes and so they wrote a a final scene and and we just sort of did it at the last minute but that's that's cutting close I think we're usually at least about a month in advance now you and Byron have now gotten married has that episode aired yes we we I don't know whether it has in Canada but it did um here in America that was the end of last season and now at the end of this season we'll have the baby and how has that changed the show because I know for years you know the show has had a lot to do with the chemistry between you will they won't they will they won't they so now that it's happened how how's that changed the show well because of uh the morals of those days and those characters that we were never able really to play love scenes so now we have some love scenes and and now we're dealing with the whole impact of being married and and how that affects you and he losing some of his freedom and me losing some of my freedom and you know really like you know what marriage is about and of course with the baby coming we're dealing with those issues um it's never easy it's not sort of like well now the married it's all over there's no sexual tension there's there's plenty of it are the are the characters going to have twins no I don't think so I think uh they'll only have one because when you when you do a television show and you play one baby because of the child labor laws they're only allowed to work for a few minutes so as is we have to have twins or triplets if you're doing one we'd have to look for quintuplets I think if we had twins or triplets that's a little crazy so what else do I want to ask you about um oh okay so you've you've been doing this for how many years have lost count well this is our fourth season so at least four years so how how do you personally keep it fun does it just happen for you automatically that it's fun or do you have to kind of work at it look for things to enjoy know the funny thing is that I think that the character and the and the show grows all the time and I thought I'd be bored but I'm never bored I come to work there's always something new that the episodes are always very different sometimes it's comedy sometimes it's very tragic sometimes it's action filled and um we have a really good relationship all of us we're all it's like a big family plus it's great for me because I live close to home my kids can come here and I can have you know the ultimate dream which is to be a mom be married be happy and have a show a hit show yeah I mean it's almost like a a normal job I guess movies can be much more disruptive with traveling and weird hours and night shoots and no before this you know I was traveling all over the world doing miniseries everywhere I mean the last place I remember shooting was Yugoslavia and the tanks had already come in and the the war correspondents were in the hotel and and I was trying to figure out how I was going to get out of there with two children and you know and then of course now every time I I read the newspapers I just want to cry because these these were my friends in Yugoslavia and it was terrible so I'm very relieved to be in one place and you know close to the schools close to my other life which is uh you know being a and and you know having a great character to play it's great thank you so much for talking to us Jane it's a great pleasure to meet you okay take care jeez I've been taking people out every day today okay we're rolling hi I'm Jane Seymour from Dr Quinn Medicine Woman and you're watching Metro Cafe [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] that's that's very unusual that she would s I thought you were getting better that that's all don't [Music] roll roll sh [Music] those are the most you can do that oh boy over already well all righty [Applause] [Music] [Music] then the stand up yeah what do you want me to say I say it's one of the most popular it's it's actually regarded as the most popular Western television show on TV today um we we'll do that with the first te the costume are just [Music] as it's the most popular Western behind the design and creation there's a lot of time and effort that that is put into these costumes and today on Metro Cafe we're taking you to meet the person behind the Sher Les yeah Sher Engel Engle yeah and Sher Engel and yes um as you can see and as you can see elaborate costumes as you can see these elaborate cost costumes are big part of the success of the show okay today today I'm this is as close as I could get to a juice that's fine Cactus Cooler got something for you y I got it in my pocket right thank you so so uh Dr qu Medicine Woman is regarded as the most popular Western on television today the costumes as you can see the elaborate costumes are are a very big factor in the show's success a lot of time goes into these beautiful creations and the woman behind that today we will meet the woman behind all of this Sher Engel today we'll meet Sher Engel the woman behind the design oh hey you're awesome okay I have to sit side saddle don't I I guess with that it would look good if your leg was over that if you can really yeah there you now that's perfect really is that how they do it that's the balance that makes sense this is your balance there we go okay there you go just like Sherin okay what is it again no one more Dr Quinn Medicine Woman is regarded as one of the most popular Westerns on television today as you can see these elaborate costumes contribute a lot to the show's success this week on Metro Cafe we'll introduce you to Sher Engel who Woman Behind These fabulous creat hey Bobby [Music] course yeah right down there [Music] [Music] does the feather look dumb okay as you know Metro Cafe brings you behind the scenes of the hottest television shows and here I am oh and even though it's said in the 1800s in Colorado really it's the '90s and and Metro Cafe brings you my personal invitation with Jane Seymour on the set of Dr Quinn Medicine Woman No Dr Quinn Medicine Woman is set in the 1800s in a small town in Denver that was good as you know Metro Cafe brings you the hottest small town in Denver Colorado no small town in Denver in col as you know okay one two as you know Metro Cafe brings you behind the scenes of the hottest television shows Dr Quinn Medicine Woman is said in the 1800s in a small town in Colorado but really it's the 90s and this is Southern California Jane Seymour gave me a personal invitation to come down and chat with her on the set