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Jane Seymour dined with John Wayne on airplane before her rise to stardom

Jane Seymour dined with John Wayne on an airplane before she became a global star

John Wayne dined with Jane Seymour on an airplane before she shot to global stardom.

The star - who got her first big role as Bond girl Solitaire in 1973's Live and Let Die - was flying first class on her first trip to Los Angeles, California, as a young actress, when a stewardess approached Jane and said that the legend of Hollywood westerns wanted to spend time with her.

Jane - who is still shocked by that experience with The Longest Day actor - recalled to People: "I came to Hollywood on an airplane, obviously, and while I was sitting there in first class, the stewardess said, ‘Mr. Wayne would like you to dine with him.'

"Who comes to Hollywood as a young actress and actually sits down in a dining area on - not a 747 - but on a big jet to Los Angeles next to John Wayne?"

Jane - who, after Live and Let Die, went on to become a household name, starring in more films, including the 1980 romance-fantasy Somewhere in Time, and the 2005 comedy-romance Wedding Crashers - is currently writing an autobiography.

She added: "And I've got so many stories and so many extraordinary things that have happened that I keep thinking, ‘How did that actually happen to me?’"

However, the Golden Globe-winning actress - who has also appeared in TV shows, including sci-fi Battlestar Galactica, and western Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - is struggling to decide what to put in the book.

Jane, 74, admitted: "I'm trying to figure out what to do with all the material I can't put in the book. I'm actually trying to think out of the box.

"I'm just thinking while I'm doing it, I want to make sure that the book is great and it has a purpose, but then I'm trying to figure out what to do with the rest of the stories."

Some other stories include Hollywood star Gloria Swanson asking Jane to play her in a movie about her life, as well as meeting legendary actor-and-director Laurence Olivier right at the start of Jane's acting career.

Speaking of meeting Olivier, she remembered: "I remember him telling stories about school days and then going the next day on the set and watching him literally play that character. That was amazing."

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