Jodie Turner-Smith falls in love with a man whose secrets may be too much to bear The Agency. Having made her acting debut as a mermaid in the HBO series True BloodTurner-Smith’s star profile has steadily risen since her acclaimed debut in the romantic crime drama Queen and Slim with Daniel Kaluuya, having starred in everything from the Michael B. Jordan-led film No remorse for Netflix Sex Education and the acclaimed science fiction drama After Yang. More recently, Turner-Smith was seen in The Acolytewas cast as Osha and Mae’s mother, Aniseya, and starred in the next Tron: Ares.
Turner-Smith stars The Agency as Sami Zahir, an academic living in Addis Ababa who begins a relationship with Michael Fassbender’s Martian, unaware that he is actually a CIA agent working undercover in the region. When he is suddenly removed from the country because of his work, the two find their relationship ending abruptly, only to seemingly be given a second chance when she travels to London for a study program, where he has transferred. However, as questions about loyalties begin to arise, Martian and Sami discover that they may not be able to trust each other.
Alongside Turner-Smith and Fassbender, the group Agency The cast includes Oscar nominee Jeffrey Wright, Golden Globe winner Richard Gere, Alien: AllianceKatherine Waterston, September 5thEmmy nominee John Magaro, Hugh Bonneville, Werewolf at nightHarriet Sansom Harris and American PrimitiveSaura Lightfoot-Leon, among others. With its romantic center providing a fresh twist to the spy genre, the show proves to be a tense and uniquely engaging ride.
In anticipation of the program’s premiere, Screen speech interviewed Jodie Turner-Smith to discuss The Agencyhis multifaceted character, the joy of adding nuance to the spy thriller’s geopolitical tension by working with Joe Wright, and the unique emotions flowing through episode 1’s breakup scene between Sami and Martian.
Turner-Smith approaches her characters’ discovery by thinking about “The Human Experience“Beyond the page
“…it’s about building the nuance of who they are based on culture, religion, race, personal ideology…”
Screen Speech: I Love The Agency From what I’ve seen so far, it’s a very convincing journey, but also a very emotional one. His character is obviously one of the great hearts and souls of this series. What was the biggest key to discovering who she is?
Jodie Turner-Smith: You know, I think with every character, there’s a human experience that’s going on beyond who they are, what they look like, where they come from, that’s important for me to explore. But before you even get there, it’s about building the nuances of who they are based on culture, religion, race, personal ideology, all of those things. So it was really exciting to play a Sudanese woman, an academic, a woman who dedicated her life to the betterment of her people, her country. It’s a show that really touches on very important current geopolitical issues.
All of that was very exciting, and I think it added to the nuance that comes out, where you create a character that, no matter where someone comes from, they feel seen by that and the adventure that they’re going through, the trials and tribulations that they go through. is passing. We all understand loving someone, we all understand loving someone who maybe we shouldn’t love, or who we’re told we can’t love, and the conflict that creates in us, and what we’re willing to do. sacrifice for love, how we are willing to risk everything. You know, run into that burning building, do whatever.
The breakup scene from episode 1 is “Telling so many things about the story”
“You see there is so much love, affection and compassion within this separation…”
It’s this nuance that makes the show a huge standout in the spy genre. And since you mentioned love, I particularly love the breakup scene in episode 1 in the sense that, obviously, we’re seeing Michael explain this in a way to his coach, but as we see it happen, you become much calmer and collected as she processes everything in the moment. What was it like playing that scene with Michael?
Jodie Turner-Smith: What I love about this scene is that it tells you so many things about the story. It’s showing how much he protects the relationship by manipulating reality for the “powers that be”, and it also shows what their relationship is. When he says, “Ah, that’s how she responded,” which is typical [things of] When you break up with someone and no one likes to break up, we’ve all had that experience. You break up with someone, and they go absolutely delulu and bats, and that’s not what happens in this case.
You see that there is so much love and affection and compassion within this breakup that they have for each other, and that they are having for themselves as they try to metabolize this in real time. I thought it was such a clever and interesting way to write a scene, and it was really beautiful to play in the hands of Joe Wright, who I consider to be one of the most sensitive filmmakers of our time when we talk about love and desire and heartbreak. . He’s so good at it, he’s so good at it, and it was a beautiful thing to film. It was painful and delicious and beautiful and moving and full of love.
On The Agency
THE AGENCY is a remake of the critically acclaimed hit French drama Le Bureau des Legendes, the new political spy thriller follows Martian (Fassbender), a secret CIA agent ordered to abandon his secret life and return to London station. When the love he left behind reappears, the romance is rekindled. Your career, your true identity and your mission are against your heart; throwing them both into a deadly game of intrigue and international espionage.
Stay tuned for our others The Agency interviews with:
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The cast and Joe Wright on the red carpet
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Jeffrey Wright
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Richard Gere
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Joe Wright
Source: Screen Rant Plus