Jane Seymour Pictures

Sweet Jane

Above the bustle of the Henry Street in the boardroom Arnotts Jane Seymour is thumbing its iPad and show me pictures of his family. "This is Sean, my oldest, is 26 and is a photographer and a director," she said. "This is my daughter Katherine, she is an actress and writer ..."

There is also his step-son Kalen, the son of her fourth husband, director James Keach, and then, of course, 15 years ago Seymour twins, Kris and his brother Johnny who is sitting next to her mother proud in the meeting room. Dressed in skinny jeans and a striped Breton top, Seymour (an almost supernaturally young looking 60-year old) is in town to do some publicity for one of the clothing lines she's associated with but more importantly she's also here to support Johnny's band, Plead The Fifth.

He sits beside his mum with maybe a slight degree of discomfort at all the attention but Seymour is more than happy to hype up her son's work. "The band is entirely his thing. My job is to feed the guy and keep a roof over his head," she says. "But the thing that gets me when I listen to Johnny's songs is that it speaks to my generation, especially the relationship ones."

Johnny breaks into a smile. "Mom's definitely helped a lot," he says in a California accent at odds with his mother's clipped English one. "She might like to think a lot of the songs are about her . . . " "What?" Seymour interjects. "Like that that one that says, "living with you ain't easy"? Well, who have you been living with apart from me?"

There's a lot of that kind of playful ribbing going on between mother and son. Family is the most important thing in Seymour's life and has been for a long time. "We talk about everything as a family," she says. "With my first marriage I had to talk to my kids about their father not being around. They've seen everything. I'd say Johnny and his twin, Kris, have had the privilege of being able to learn from their step brother and sister about what to do and what not to do."

Seymour, who was born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg in London, first gained international recognition as a Bond girl in Live and Let Die which ran for 149 episodes on American tv from 1993 to 1998.