It’s a Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman reunion on Season 5 of Harry Wild, which began streaming today exclusively on Acorn, and Parade had the pleasure of speaking with Jane Seymour and Joe Lando about their highly anticipated on-screen reunion as Harry Wild and Pierce Kennedy and their classic TV roles as Dr. Quinn and Byron Sully respectively.
“It’s really great working with Joe,” Seymour told Parade. “It comes easily. We play off one another really well regardless of what we’re playing. There’s a chemistry, an energy, a camaraderie. We’re comfortable together, so it’s always fun. It’s like playing tennis with a really great partner.”
Seymour had broached the idea of Lando joining the series previously, but it’s an Irish-English production, which meant that there were union clearances that had to be dealt with to make it happen, and now those hurdles have finally been cleared with permission granted for Lando to join the series in its fifth season as Pierce Kennedy, a charming and brilliant new State Pathologist whose arrival quickly makes waves in Harry’s world.
The chemistry between the two actors is clear, even though they long ago decided they were better as friends than romantic partners in real life, and the best part is that they’ve kept that friendship this entire time, so much so that when Lando’s home burned down in the Pacific Palisades fire in California, his family moved into Seymour’s Malibu home for almost two months.
“I’m fortunate enough to have quite a large house on two stories,” Seymour says of their time together. “The fires were terrifying. So many people lost their homes. I came close to losing mine.”
“It was Upstairs Downstairs for real,” laughs Lando, whose family of seven, plus two large dogs and two parakeets, took over the lower level. “We were waking up together, and it was that awkward ‘oh!’ first thing in the morning, having breakfast and cooking for one another.”
In fact, during this time, Lando used his skill as a chef to prepare their meals, and it was made easier by the fact that he had had an emergency camping stove in the back of his truck when he arrived at Seymour’s home, because the gas in Malibu had been shut off.
“She had a generator we could use, but nonetheless, I cooked breakfast and lunch on that little grill for like 9-10 people, but it was a great bonding experience,” Lando said. “It’s like going camping for a while in Malibu.”
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“We never knew what he was going to cook up, but I grow a lot of our vegetables and fruits in the garden organically and we also have chickens, so we had eggs,” Seymour added.
Rohan Nedd, Jane Seymour in ‘Harry Wild’Photo Credit: Szymon Lazewski/AcornTV
“It’s not easy being around someone who’s suffering like that but she did it and thankfully we had time to get on our feet and because of her, we were able to find a house that wasn’t something we just moved into spur of the moment like so many people had to and then were stuck there,” Lando added. “We’re very happy with where we’re living and the future looks bright.”
The two had to relocate from Malibu to Dublin for filming Harry Wild, which in Season 5 deals with the most dangerous and complex cases to date. The team — Harry, her young partner Fergus Reid (Rohan Nedd) and her son Charlie Wild (Kevin J. Ryan) — take on undercover operations, chilling murders and relentless criminals…all with the help of Pierce, whose sharp instincts and natural chemistry with Harry prove invaluable.
“I love solving the mysteries,” Seymour said. “What I love about playing Harry Wild is that really anything goes. It’s comedic, it’s meaningful, it can be romantic, it can be dangerous, it’s academic. I just find it’s a great role. Also, sometimes Harry goes undercover and pretends to be something she’s not, like a little old lady from Scotland or something who’s hearing’s gone as she goes [looking for clues]. The writers are so good.”
Only three episodes of Harry Wild were released for preview, so it’s unclear as yet whether romance will blossom between Harry and Pierce, despite Harry’s having invited him out, and it may take until Season 6 according to Lando.
“Against his better judgment, he keeps turning down these invitations from Harry,” Lando explained. “He knows that there’s something there between them, he can feel it, but there’s also something else in his past that is holding him back. What we don’t know yet. The writers have written two different endings for the show.”
Joe Lando in ‘Harry Wild’Photo Credit: Szymon Lazewski/AcornTV
Both Seymour and Lando feel blessed to have starred in Dr. Quinn, and they are not averse to reprising those roles, but despite the success of Yellowstone and Marshals, CBS isn’t feeling the love for a reboot.
“We don’t know the circumstances,” Seymour says. “We don’t get it, but maybe they’ll one day change their minds. The last thing I heard was that westerns weren’t current. I went, ‘Really.’” Then she adds “We’re very happy doing what we’re doing right now. The reason I chose Harry Wilde to do over other things is that I’ve never seen that show before. It’s not Murder She Wrote. It’s something different. It’s that sort of genre [cozy murder mystery], but I think it’s also very empowering to women of a certain age.”
Harry Wild season five begins streaming today exclusively on Acorn TV with one episode and new episodes streaming weekly through Monday, July 27.
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