Might often is the month of Mom’s Day, the Kentucky Derby, Cinco de Mayo and even Mom Goose Day, however over at Acorn TV it’s time for homicide most foul.
However that’s not all … on June 2 Seymour will probably be internet hosting a complete new form of thriller with “Relative Secrets,” an unscripted enterprise described as “part true-crime and part genealogy.”
Every episode will probe an American household’s darkest-held thriller, hoping to resolve the thriller and reconnoiter with the household.
The four-parter will embrace the saga of a mom who deserted her kids for a brand new life, a World Struggle II vet who feels he contributed to his grandmother’s demise, and the daughter of a serial killer making an attempt to carve out her personal future.
These two collection mark one other coup for Seymour, who’s finest recognized for her six seasons as “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” her stint on the Netflix comedy, “The Kominsky Method,” and the evergreen film, “Somewhere in Time.”
“I don’t just like acting,” she says, “I LOVE acting. I’d almost pay for the privilege and sometimes some of the movies I’ve been in, have actually cost me to do,” she says.
“I like creating the character and putting myself into the circumstances of different people — whether it’s comedic or romantic or it’s tragic. I just love experiencing what life would be like if I were that person.”
Initially, the British-born actress deliberate on being a dancer. “I wanted to be a ballerina; I loved ballet more than anything in the world, and I had to quit that when I was 16 because I had injuries,” she remembers.
Her ballet faculty additionally included drama courses, however Seymour was not as adept there. “I remember they wouldn’t cast me in ANYTHING. I always had the worst role, like two lines in whatever it was. It was very frustrating for me because they didn’t really give me a chance. It wasn’t till I left school and auditioned and started working as a chorus girl in ‘Oh! What a Lovely War,’ and I had one line.”
However issues weren’t so snug on the house entrance. “My parents insisted I become a dance teacher, and I went against their better judgment and said, ‘No, I want to become an actress.’ That’s the first time I really stood up to them and said, ‘I know you invested all your money in me as a dancer, but I’m going to try this.’ I know at the time they thought it was a big mistake.”
Although she recited just one line in “Oh! What a Lovely War,” she was noticed by a high expertise agent. “And I auditioned for a bunch of things, got a TV series in England called ‘The Onedin Line,’ and I just took to acting. It was something I loved doing.”
Nonetheless, Seymour didn’t trek the standard path to appearing through a prestigious drama faculty and ready tables in her spare time.
“While I was still there at (ballet) school, (producer-director) Franco Zeffirelli wanted to meet me for a movie he was going to make after ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ He was going to make ‘Roman Holiday.’ I tested for him and for Fred Zinnemann at the same time. He was going to make ‘The Dybbuk’ which never got made.”
The position was described as a younger lady who was possessed by the satan. “And they wanted me to be able to lower my voice to a male register, so I had lessons with the greatest voice coach in England — I think her name was Cicely Barry. And she did all the voice coaching for the Royal Shakespeare Company, so really by accident, I got a great education in acting whilst performing.”
Seymour went on to look within the classics: Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen. “That was really my training as an actor. It wasn’t what I thought I wanted to be.”
At 25 she left her fatherland to attempt her luck in America. “Without a work permit, without a visa, without an agent, without everything,” she says.
“I gave myself six weeks to make it, so I think that was pretty pivotal. When you look at my resume, you’ll see a few years where I worked literally nonstop. I went to an immigration lawyer who said the only way I could get a green card was to work consistently for a year and was at least nominated for a major acting award. So I took him seriously and did every job I could possibly get and worked consistently for a year and was nominated for an Emmy. So that’s how it happened.”
