A-Sides Interview: Jane Seymour Discusses Going to Battle With Robert De Niro in “The War with Grandpa,” Working Throughout the Pandemic, and How to “Uniquely” Make a Difference in the World
Iconic Bond girl. Emmy Award winner. Medicine Woman. Kitty Cat. Where does one even begin to interview Jane Seymour? Given her countless accomplishments and credits across so many mediums, it’s best to stick with the present. Otherwise, you’d keep her for hours asking her about everything from Live and Let Die and Dr. Quinn to War and Remembrance and Wedding Crashers. It helps that the renowned actress has a new movie to start the conversation off.
Seymour stars opposite Robert De Niro, Cheech Marin, Christopher Walken, and Uma Thurman in the family comedy The War with Grandpa, which comes out this Friday, Oct. 9. The actress plays a potential love interest for De Niro’s curmudgeony, widowed character who moves in with his daughter (Thurman) and her family, and displaces his grandson Peter (Oakes Fegley) from his bedroom in the process. As a result, Peter and his friends band together to play a series of pranks on grandpa to force him out of the room. But, grandpa has some pals of his own in Marin and his Deer Hunter co-star Walken and, before long, Seymour join in the battle.
Seymour and I chatted about the film via everyone’s BFF Zoom, and discussed the film and its timing (it’s been long-delayed even pre-pandemic), and how she’s spending or has spent her time during these, well, times. The conversation was fun, inspiring, touched on Wedding Crashers 2 rumblings, and may or may not include her doing a subtle all-too-brief Walken impression.
