Jane Seymour Looks Back at "B Positive"

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Jane Seymour Looks Back at "B Positive"
by Timothy Gomez
April 21, 2022


"You never know with Chuck how many episodes you're going to be in, because he writes them as he goes along. And so you just have to have faith that he knows what he's going to do with your character," Jane Seymour says of Lorre, who next cast her as a saucy retirement home resident on his latest CBS sitcom.

"I was supposed to do two films back to back, one in England, a comedy, which is still waiting to be done, and starring in a movie in America opposite Danny Glover. And both movies were postponed because of COVID — and just randomly at that moment, Chuck called my agent again and said, 'I'm not quite sure what I'm doing with her, but I want her to play this character named Bette.'

I never knew from one episode to the next where Bette was going to go or who she really was. That's how he is. But it turned out to be great. Again, I was supposed to just do three episodes and I ended up with the whole show. I loved it."




As for Bette's plethora of wigs? "That was my idea," says Seymour.

"I said, 'She wears wigs,' which of course makes life [on set] a lot easier, too..."

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