United Kingdom, July 14 -- Jane Seymour wants to be the "poster child for women over 50".

The 75-year-old actress is delighted to play the titular retired professor-turned-amateur sleuth in Harry Wild because she loves being able to show it's possible for people to still live full and exciting lives, and find different ways to use their skills in their later years, rather than just sit around waiting to die.

Speaking during a panel at Fanboy Expo Knoxville at the Knoxville Convention Center in Tennessee over the weekend, People magazine reports she said: "Having Harry Wild at this time of my life is just huge for me, to play a woman of a certain age who's not decided to go live under a rock and then wait for the end of their life.

"I'm...