Jane Seymour Says She Feels 'Pretty Comfortable' Being Able to 'Age Up, Down and Around' for Roles (Exclusive)

Jane Seymour is embracing flexibility in her career.

While attending the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, Feb. 8, the Irish Wish star, 73, spoke to PEOPLE about her ability to portray different-aged characters in her acting work. As she described, the "older I got, the more [interesting] the roles were and the more I really needed every muscle in my face to move."

"I just feel comfortable in my skin," Seymour says.

"I really love the roles I'm getting and if I'm playing character roles, which I am, but character roles that are still kind of sexy and fun," she adds, joking, "I think at this point, I'm pretty comfortable just being able to age up and down and around."

Seymour specifically referenced her 1978 miniseries The Awakening Land, as well as 1981's East of Eden, the latter in which she played character Cyrus Trask at different ages, from 13 to her 60s.

"So I've been jumping around ever since I was young," she tells PEOPLE. "I played older and younger in everything."

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During Saturday's awards ceremony, Seymour presented the best documentary trophy for Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story — a film that follows the life of her late friend who starred alongside her in 1980's Somewhere in Time. Speaking with PEOPLE, she described Reeve, who died in 2004 at age 52, as a "real-life Superman."

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"I think he teaches all of us that everyone in life will have challenges, some more than others," Seymour says. "The hardest thing to do is to accept. And if you can accept, open up your heart, reach out to help someone else, you'll have a purpose. And that is the secret to happiness. And if you have a purpose, then you can feel really good about yourself."

"When you feel good about yourself, you are like a magnet," she adds. "People want to be part of something good."

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In December, Seymour spoke with PEOPLE at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Gala, and shared some valuable advice from her more than six decades in the entertainment business.

“Don’t take it for granted. It isn’t easy,” she said at the time. “The balance of how you come across and how you conduct yourself is huge, sadly."

"But also I’ve never given up. I now have my own series again, and I’m in my 70s," Seymour added. "So I say to women, ‘Don’t give up and be authentic.’ Don’t pretend to be 20 when you’re 70. Be 70.”

The Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman star also celebrated the progress women have made in film and television since she first entered the public eye.

“It’s a great honor, and it’s wonderful because I’ve been working in entertainment since I was 13, so that’s 60 years,” she said, “and to see how women are really having their moment now and telling their stories and telling stories that normally wouldn’t have been told is very empowering.”

As of late, Seymour — who will celebrate her 74th birthday on Feb. 15 — has been "enjoying life" as she films a movie in England and is hopeful for a fifth season of her crime procedural Harry Wild.

“I’ve got grandchildren, kids, an amazing extended family and there’s a lot of joy in my life right now," she told PEOPLE in December.

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