A-Sides Interview: Jane Seymour on "The War with Grandpa" and Working Through the Pandemic

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, 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, enlightening, and may or may not include her doing an all-too-brief Christopher Walken impression.

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Do you remember any scenes with warmness between Peter and sally. I don’t remember one hug. Nothing. Doesn’t seem to love her son at all.

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Mice and bats sounds like child abuse to me. This film angered me to be completely honest. And not to mention the fact that when the mom was yelling at her father there is no mention of her son that just got almost got killed, the kids sisters rag on him and his parents just allow it, they don’t talk to him in advance about his Grandfather coming over they just spring it on him as they proceed to tear his room apart and not to mention the fact that most negative reviews on this film usually talk about how the kid is disrespectful and almost nobody remembers that this is a kid and being a kid he only learns shitty behaviors form the adults around which don’t seem to give a shit about him. Yet another aggressive take on men and boys.

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In the end of the book the Grandpa makes a truce with the boy and they have a family discussion and decide that Grandpa will be staying in the dads office after the boy and the grandfather fix it up together. In the film there was no empathy for the boy whatsoever no reasoning no family meetings none of that.