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Well at least some of the increasing number of actors arriving in Australia to shoot movies (which is fantastic for our economy and in creating work for Aussies) are not staying in mansions and are just going through the normal hotel quarantine process.
Jane Seymour has made the most of her first 10 days of quarantine in Sydney, before she begins shooting a new Australian film under strict COVID-19 regulations next week.
Making the most of quarantine: actor Jane Seymour, who took this photo of herself, has been painting in her Sydney hotel room after arriving from Los Angeles. She starts shooting new Australian film Ruby's Choice the morning after she gets out.
The British-American actor, who kickstarted her international career playing Solitaire in the Bond movie Live and Let Die then went on to play the likes of Marie Antoinette, Maria Callas, Wallis Simpson and Dr Michaela Quinn, Medicine Woman, is grateful for the chance to shoot a film during the pandemic.
"Nobody is able to make anything right now and California has got worse since I came here so I consider myself extraordinarily fortunate to be making such a beautiful movie, with really talented Australians, on the outskirts of Sydney," she said.
But quarantine was tough initially. And in a small hotel room, certainly not glamorous
"It's taken a lot of getting used to," Seymour said. "First of all the aeroplane only had 50 people on it and the airport was pretty much empty. The minute we landed, we were treated like we were presidents or something.
"We were told 'you go here, you go there, you do this, you do that'. I was trying to carry two bags that I couldn't lift and obviously no one could touch your bags ... It took about three-and-a-half hours just to get to the hotel – they wouldn't tell which hotel you were going to – and you don't sit near anybody. Then they take you up one at a time.
"There's the army, there's the police, there's guns, there's process, then you get put in a room with no key and they close the door."
Food is dropped off at meal times without any contact.
"You don't actually see human beings for two weeks and you can't get fresh air," Seymour said. "Sadly I'm looking at the back side of someone else's buildings. But it works and that's a very, very good thing so I have no complaints."
When she injured her leg exercising, Seymour spent 12 hours at an intensive care quarantine unit before returning to the hotel.
She described Ruby's Choice as "a film that matters" because of its subject, with dementia affecting one of her uncles as well as country singer Glen Campbell, who was the subject of a documentary Seymour produced.
"It shows you how it impacts an average family and how it impacts them actually for the better ultimately," she said. Jacqueline McKenzie plays her character's daughter with Coco Jack Gillies as her granddaughter.
Seymour hopes to get out of quarantine on Sunday in time to try on costumes and meet the hair and make-up team before filming starts the following morning.
Life in lockdown improved when she was able to get a coffee machine and could supplement hotel food with Uber Eats. When frustrated, she paints what she calls her "squiggle paintings".
"I just close my eyes and run the black marker all over the page until I want to stop," she said. "Then I turn it around and try to turn it into something. I've got a whole series of them so something very good has come out of my quarantine."
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PS. Well for Jane's sake (as well as everyone in NSW) I hope that Sydney does not need go into lockdown by Sunday when she gets out.
Jane Seymour has made the most of her first 10 days of quarantine in Sydney, before she begins shooting a new Australian film under strict COVID-19 regulations next week.
Making the most of quarantine: actor Jane Seymour, who took this photo of herself, has been painting in her Sydney hotel room after arriving from Los Angeles. She starts shooting new Australian film Ruby's Choice the morning after she gets out.
The British-American actor, who kickstarted her international career playing Solitaire in the Bond movie Live and Let Die then went on to play the likes of Marie Antoinette, Maria Callas, Wallis Simpson and Dr Michaela Quinn, Medicine Woman, is grateful for the chance to shoot a film during the pandemic.
"Nobody is able to make anything right now and California has got worse since I came here so I consider myself extraordinarily fortunate to be making such a beautiful movie, with really talented Australians, on the outskirts of Sydney," she said.
But quarantine was tough initially. And in a small hotel room, certainly not glamorous
"It's taken a lot of getting used to," Seymour said. "First of all the aeroplane only had 50 people on it and the airport was pretty much empty. The minute we landed, we were treated like we were presidents or something.
"We were told 'you go here, you go there, you do this, you do that'. I was trying to carry two bags that I couldn't lift and obviously no one could touch your bags ... It took about three-and-a-half hours just to get to the hotel – they wouldn't tell which hotel you were going to – and you don't sit near anybody. Then they take you up one at a time.
"There's the army, there's the police, there's guns, there's process, then you get put in a room with no key and they close the door."
Food is dropped off at meal times without any contact.
"You don't actually see human beings for two weeks and you can't get fresh air," Seymour said. "Sadly I'm looking at the back side of someone else's buildings. But it works and that's a very, very good thing so I have no complaints."
When she injured her leg exercising, Seymour spent 12 hours at an intensive care quarantine unit before returning to the hotel.
She described Ruby's Choice as "a film that matters" because of its subject, with dementia affecting one of her uncles as well as country singer Glen Campbell, who was the subject of a documentary Seymour produced.
"It shows you how it impacts an average family and how it impacts them actually for the better ultimately," she said. Jacqueline McKenzie plays her character's daughter with Coco Jack Gillies as her granddaughter.
Seymour hopes to get out of quarantine on Sunday in time to try on costumes and meet the hair and make-up team before filming starts the following morning.
Life in lockdown improved when she was able to get a coffee machine and could supplement hotel food with Uber Eats. When frustrated, she paints what she calls her "squiggle paintings".
"I just close my eyes and run the black marker all over the page until I want to stop," she said. "Then I turn it around and try to turn it into something. I've got a whole series of them so something very good has come out of my quarantine."
Painting, Zoom and Netflix are helping Jane Seymour through hotel quarantine
The British-American actress is locked down in Sydney before shooting a new Australian film next week.
PS. Well for Jane's sake (as well as everyone in NSW) I hope that Sydney does not need go into lockdown by Sunday when she gets out.
