By Fred Topel

Everyone knows Jane Seymour as the family doctor in the old west, but she’ll have to get used to the term ( deleted) after Wedding Crashers. As the mother of Owen Wilson’s love interest, Seymour’s character, Kathleen “Kitty Cat” Cleary, solicits him with an offer he can’t refuse. With her top down, she insists he fondle her breasts to appreciate her killer implant job.

“I said, 'You know, I'm always taking my clothes off, so what's different?'” Seymour joked. “No, I looked at it and I went, 'Oh my God, this is the most hysterical scene in the movie to me and the most hysterical thing that I've read. This character is fantastic. What a shame that I can't do it.' Then I read it again and I thought, 'This is really hysterical. I wish that I could.' Then the third time I read it I thought, 'There's got to be a way around this.' So I found a way to do it. Then of course of I had to audition and then everyone out there, every name you can imagine wanted for some reason to play this role. So I had to fight for the right. And they wanted my body and so I said, 'Okay. If you really want my body you can have it.'”

It turned out Wilson was more nervous about it than Seymour. The director had to coach him to actually grip her breasts and she had to assure him it was okay. The action is filmed in profile and behind her back, so the actual nudity is always covered.

“When I act I become the character and so as far as I was concerned from the moment that we shot that scene I came in as Kitty Cat and that was it. And Kitty Cat was quite comfortable with that being the deal. Owen was very nervous about it. We shot his side first and his hands came out like little ferret hands. And [director] David Dobkin said, 'Owen, lets do another one. It's really good, but you can open your fingers this time.' So he opened his fingers a little bit. And I said, 'Okay, Owen, you can open your fingers it's alright.' So he said, 'Alright. Owen, we're going to do another one. If you want to you can actually move your fingers around.' I said, 'It's alright. Owen, squeeze. Do whatever you need to do. Don't worry about it. We're here and doing this.' And then afterwards, when we were finished he was great. He gave me a huge hug and thanked me for being brave enough to do it. That's the only way to really do it well. We wouldn't have gotten that reaction from him I think if it had been a body double.”

The fondling scene is the last Seymour shares with Wilson in the movie. Original drafts pursued their relationships further, but ultimately we’re left with fondling. “There was going to be this other little scene that we had that was really cool, but we just didn't shoot it in the end. We shot one little scene, but I knew at the time that it wasn't right. It just didn't play right in that movie to do the scene that we had. It was a beautiful scene that was written. It was on the beach. Owen and I were on the beach and I start talking to him about my life and about my husband and about how I used to be happy, but I'm not anymore and I kind of wander off. I didn't shoot it. We're not missing it.”

Seeing what you do see in the scene, it is hard to imagine Seymour has four kids and is approaching 55. She says the secret is moderation. “I do not have the personal trainer. I did Pilates long before anyone discovered it. I'm not really particularly doing it right now. I just lift a few weights. I try and get on the treadmill a little bit. I eat sensibly. I don't smoke. I don't drink too much. I try and stay away from fried foods. I try and just be healthy, but I'm not obsessive about any of it. I think that when I was younger I did obsess about it. My weight would go up and down and I didn't have a very good figure. I'm actually in the best shape I've ever been in now.”

While the focus of the movie may be on cool guys hitting on bridesmaids, Seymour hopes her character’s subplot inspires her generation. “I think that it might inspire two things. I think that yes there will be some wedding crashing. Definitely. And I think that it might hopefully inspire a generation of women that have been forgotten, don't you think? I think that the baby boomers will think that there's one last hurrah in them.”

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