Jane Seymour.Photo: Tommaso Boddi/Filmmagic
As she gears up to celebrate her 70th birthday next month,Jane Seymouris doing anything but slowing down.
“I’m working on so many movies right now it’s unbelievable,“The War with Grandpastar tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue.
As for beingconsidered a sex symbol in Hollywood, Seymour says with a laugh, “I don’t quite understand what a sex symbol means, but am I still a full-blooded woman? Definitely!”
“And 69, to me, just appears to be a number,” the former Bond girl continues of the “flattering” sex-symbol term. “I’m feeling incredibly healthy and well.”
“At the same time, I think it’s lovely that I get to play the 70- and 80-year-olds I’m playing and really represent my own age group onscreen as well. I also often play younger than me,” adds theDr. Quinn, Medicine Womanalum.
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Speaking about one “very extraordinary story” she was involved in, Seymour says, “I was asked to show a woman in the late stages of ALS how to put a brush with a pen in between two fingers and move it with the other arm, and she made 40 paintings, having never painted in her life before. She painted every day until she died.”
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“I am really proud of the fact that I get to have a full life,” she tells PEOPLE. “I get to have a family life, grandchildren, art. And the nonprofit,the work that we’re doing, makes me the most proud.”
The War with Grandpais available now on Blu-ray, DVD and on demand.
For more from Jane Seymour, pick up the latest issue ofPEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
source: people.com
