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Jane Seymour is hopeful about the future of the James Bond franchise.
Following the Feb. 20 news that Amazon had acquired “creative control” of the franchise from longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson going forward, PEOPLE asked the former Bond Girl for her thoughts on 007’s future.
“I hope they’re good,” the Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman star, 74, said at the Feb. 25 TIME Women of the Year Gala in West Hollywood. “I mean, it’s an end of an era, isn’t it?”
Seymour’s role as psychic Bond Girl Solitaire opposite Roger Moore in 1973’s Live and Let Die was one of her earliest breakthrough performances. Noting that she worked with founding Bond producers Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and Harry Saltzman on the film, Seymour sounded an optimistic note regarding the franchise’s future.
“I am sure it’ll do really well,” she said. “I think Bond will keep going. People love Bond. It’s a great franchise.”
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So, would Seymour be up for revisiting the world of Bond in a potential Amazon-produced project?
“I’ve always said I’d be very happy to be a part of it,” she told PEOPLE. “I’m very proud to have been part of that, but I was like a really early Bond when they actually did the books. Well, maybe. We’ll see.”
“I mean, I was very young when I did it. I was 20,” Seymour added.
Asked for her favorite memories of working on Live and Let Die, Seymour said she’s saving them for a book she’s currently working on.
“I give so many interviews, I give most of my stories away,” she joked. “I’ve got to keep some from my book.”
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