People: Jun. 15, 1987

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By popular demand, it would seem, Jane Seymour has already won the part of Scarlett O'Hara in an upcoming sequel to the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind. The only trouble, reports the actress, "is that I haven't been approached by the people making the movie." This unflattering state of affairs came about when newspapers in Britain and the U.S. simultaneously asked readers who would be their favorite choice to refill the role made famous by Vivien Leigh. Seymour won both polls hands down, and rumors began to fly. "People have been asking me about this for months," she complains. Instead of standing on tiptoe, Seymour has kept herself quite busy, thank you, by globe-trotting from Japan, where she played host to a PBS documentary on the country, to Argentina and Spain, where she filmed El Tunel (The Tunnel) with Spanish Director Antonio Drove. "I played a woman obsessed with love," reports Seymour. Hmmm. Would "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" sound more macho in Castilian?