JamesG
04-22-2022, 03:50 AM
Jane Seymour Looks Back at "The Kominsky Method"
by Patrick Gomez
April 21, 2022
Jane Seymour has played "herself" on many a show over the years — including "My Name is Earl", "Diagnosis Murder", "The Nanny", and "Murphy Brown" twice ("I always think it's great to take fun out of yourself," she says) — but she never realized how an episode of "Dharma & Greg" would be just the start of her collaboration with TV-creator extraordinaire Chuck Lorre.
"I got a call from my agent saying, 'He wants you to do The Kominsky Method.' I said, 'What am I playing?' And he said, 'He's not sure yet. He wants to meet with you for an hour in his office.' Chuck said, 'You're either going to be Michael Douglas or Alan Arkin's love interest.' And I thought, Well, probably Michael, right? You'd think. Mildly closer in age.
And anyway, long story short, he decided that I should be Alan Arkin's love interest — but he was concerned that I couldn't age up and look older. And I said, 'Trust me. With a gray wig, I'm all there.' I got a gray wig, and I showed up on the set on the first day of filming. And Michael, I've known him for years, actually introduced himself to me on the set."
Playing Madelyn was "a wonderful time. Alan loved working with me. I loved working with him. That first day, Chuck turned to me and said, 'Okay, you're not just doing one or two episodes. You're doing all of them.'"
https://ew.com/tv/jane-seymour-dr-quinn-james-bond-wedding-crashers-smallville-interview/
by Patrick Gomez
April 21, 2022
Jane Seymour has played "herself" on many a show over the years — including "My Name is Earl", "Diagnosis Murder", "The Nanny", and "Murphy Brown" twice ("I always think it's great to take fun out of yourself," she says) — but she never realized how an episode of "Dharma & Greg" would be just the start of her collaboration with TV-creator extraordinaire Chuck Lorre.
"I got a call from my agent saying, 'He wants you to do The Kominsky Method.' I said, 'What am I playing?' And he said, 'He's not sure yet. He wants to meet with you for an hour in his office.' Chuck said, 'You're either going to be Michael Douglas or Alan Arkin's love interest.' And I thought, Well, probably Michael, right? You'd think. Mildly closer in age.
And anyway, long story short, he decided that I should be Alan Arkin's love interest — but he was concerned that I couldn't age up and look older. And I said, 'Trust me. With a gray wig, I'm all there.' I got a gray wig, and I showed up on the set on the first day of filming. And Michael, I've known him for years, actually introduced himself to me on the set."
Playing Madelyn was "a wonderful time. Alan loved working with me. I loved working with him. That first day, Chuck turned to me and said, 'Okay, you're not just doing one or two episodes. You're doing all of them.'"
https://ew.com/tv/jane-seymour-dr-quinn-james-bond-wedding-crashers-smallville-interview/