What a Lovely War, which led to roles onThe Strauss FamilyandThe Onedin Line.
“I was given one shot at it, one episode.
That was the series that the James Bond producer saw me in.
Geoffrey Holder and Jane Seymour in ‘Live and Let Die’ promotional shot.Everett Collection
“That was not the trajectory I was looking for.
I was going to go and do Shakespeare and Ibsen and all the classics.
I just rememberRoger Moorewas lovely.
He realized I was so green and didn’t know what was going on.
Seymour says it was an “amazing experience” shooting in New Orleans and Jamaica.
“I stayed in fancy hotels.
I’d sort of run off.
They’d say, ‘Where’s Jane?’
And someone would say, ‘Oh, she’s off rehearsing with the voodoo guys.'”
In fact, her downtime with Holder resulted in an iconic image associated with the film.
“It had nothing to do with the movie at all.
It was just Geoffrey and I dancing in our costumes.”
I was looked at like, ‘What has just been brought in here?
‘,” she recalls.
“It was absolutely mesmerizing.
He wanted me to see what it was really like.
