Jane Seymour, Christopher Reeve 'fell madly in love' during 1980 film

Romance was unquestionably in the air in the course of the filming of the 1980 drama “Somewhere in Time.”

Jane Seymour disclosed that she “fell madly in really like,” the two on- and off-screen, with her costar Christopher Reeve. Whilst the 71-12 months-outdated had formerly touched upon the sturdy friendship she had with Reeve in the earlier, she is just now acquiring candid about their like affair.

“Well, below will come the story that I’m formally telling you now, since Chris and I, when we manufactured the movie, we practically fell madly in love,” Seymour explained at the TCM Traditional Film Competition around the weekend.

Though chatting with TCM host Alicia Malone, the “Wedding Crashers” star bought psychological conversing about her romance with the late “Superman” actor while filming the time-travel movie.

SOMEWHERE IN TIME, Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, 1980.
Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour in “Somewhere in Time,” 1980.
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Jane Seymour had a real-life romance Christopher Reeve.
Jane Seymour had a real-lifetime romance Christopher Reeve.
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“When you see this film, you will see the genuine detail,” she claimed. “But we did not enable any person know. So a couple of the persons who worked on the present variety of sussed it out, but we ended up as subtle as we could be about it.”

“We were madly in love and lifetime was superb,” Seymour continued. “We ended up both equally single it was a excellent, astounding experience.”

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She then noted that their partnership came to a halt at the very same time she filmed a scene where by her character, Elise, and Reeve’s Richard eliminate each other right after the latter wakes up in his possess time time period.

She explained what went down that fateful day that led to their break up: Seymour received the surprising information that Reeve was expecting a little one with his ex-girlfriend, the similar day the actors have been to shoot the enjoy scene as well as a separation scene.

SOMEWHERE IN TIME, from left: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, 1980. ©Universal Pictures/courtesy Ev
“When you see this film, you will see the actual detail,” the British actress reported.
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“And then one particular day I arrived in to operate [to film] 1 of the largest scenes in the movie… Just prior to that, Chris had experienced an earlier call and I arrived in about half an hour later, and they reported, ‘Chris desires to discuss to you about something.’ I imagined, ‘That’s seriously odd, we’ve experienced a long time to communicate about factors, so what could it be?,'” she recalled.

“It was that he was about to have a child, and that his ex-girlfriend hadn’t instructed him, and that she’d just declared it to the environment,” the “Fifty Shades of Black” actress claimed.

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Seymour claimed he had “tears coming midway up my eyeballs” while filming.
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Reeve and his ex, Gae Exton, experienced a son named Matthew about the time of filming. The disability activist and the modeling executive stayed alongside one another until finally 1987 and also welcomed a daughter, Alexandra.

Seymour joked that she experienced to “put my major-lady pants on” to shoot and had “tears coming midway up my eyeballs” when she shot heartbreaking scenes.

“And I just kept indicating, ‘You just can't cry, you just cannot cry, you can not cry, you are joyful. Elise is genuinely, truly delighted proper now,'” she mentioned.

Christopher Reeve and Gae Exton in 1980.
Christopher Reeve and Gae Exton in 1980.
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Reeve died in 2004 at the age of 52 immediately after suffering from cardiac arrest. Seymour and the “Village of the Damned” actor stayed fantastic good friends about the many years up right until his passing.

Her son Kristopher is even named after her late buddy.

“The superior element of the story is that Chris went on to have these two lovely small children and we satisfied one yet another on many occasions,” Seymour mentioned for the duration of the pageant. “We remained truly, definitely shut friends, basically till the day he died. I have to imagine that I will a single day see him someplace in time.”

Jane Seymour, Christopher Reeve 'fell madly in love' during 1980 film

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