Jane Seymour hopes to be the 'poster child for women over 50'

Jane Seymour wants to be the "poster child for women over 50".

The 75-year-old actress is delighted to play the titular retired professor-turned-amateur sleuth in Harry Wild because she loves being able to show it's possible for people to still live full and exciting lives, and find different ways to use their skills in their later years, rather than just sit around waiting to die.

Speaking during a panel at Fanboy Expo Knoxville at the Knoxville Convention Center in Tennessee over the weekend, People magazine reports she said: “Having Harry Wild at this time of my life is just huge for me, to play a woman of a certain age who’s not decided to go live under a rock and then wait for the end of their life.

“I’m hoping that I’m the poster child for women over 50 to realise that post-menopause, the kids are gone, you may or not have a partner in your life anymore or want one or get one, but life is not over.

"You may have retired, but it doesn’t mean you can’t now use your skill set and your passion for life to do something else with the skills that you have.”

Jane noted she has been playing "older people" in this phase of her career such as roles in The Kominsky Method and Ruby's Choice and has welcomed having a varied choice of parts.

She said: "I don’t stick to one thing. I’m not trying to play younger than I am. I’m just trying to be authentically my kind of age span and tell those stories. And I’m privileged.”