Jodie Turner-Smith Says There's 'Levels of Fanning Out' withThe AgencyCostar Richard Gere: 'He's So Cool'

Mar. 15, 2025

Jodie Turner-Smith and Richard Gere at the premiere of ‘The Agency’ t Museum of Modern Art on November 21, 2024 in New York City.Photo:John Nacion/Variety via Getty; Michael Loccisano/WireImage

John Nacion/Variety via Getty; Michael Loccisano/WireImage

Jodie Turner-Smithis a well-established talent in her own right, but even she has her moments of fangirling over her Hollywood peers.

The actress, 38, currently stars inThe AgencywithRichard Gere— as well asMichael FassbenderandJeffrey Wright. Understandably, Turner-Smith couldn’t contain her excitement over working with Gere, though she tried her best not to show it.

After recently admitting she’d love to star inChicagoon Broadway onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, hostJimmy Fallonasked if she’d talked to Gere, 75, about the show since the actor had starred as Billy Flynn inthe 2002 film. In response, theQueen & Slimstar said she’s played it pretty coy with Gere.

“I haven’t talked to him about it,” she admitted.

“There’s levels of kind of fanning out with Richard Gere,” she continued. “Cause he’s, like, so cool and calm and I’m like, not trying to give him the whole, like, ‘I love you!'”

Jodie Turner-Smith and Richard Gere attend The Agency Premiere in NY.Mike Coppola/Getty

Mike Coppola/Getty

Gere was not the only actor Turner-Smith was excited to work with on the new Paramount+ spy thriller, which is based on the French dramaLe Bureau des Legende.

Admitting she’s a “long-time fan” of Fassbender — who plays covert CIA agent Martian and navigates an affair with Turner-Smith’s character Samia in the show — the actresstold PEOPLE the Irish actor was “someone I was so wanting to work with for a very long time.”

“I think I’m always nervous before every job,” she continued. “I feel like it’s a good thing. Because if you’re not nervous, I don’t know, Maybe something’s a little bit dead inside. But also, I still constantly feel like I’m just so at the beginning. I feel like I’ve been doing this for all of two seconds. I have so much to learn, and so much I want to learn.”

Jodie Turner Smith as Samia Zahir in ‘The Agency’.Luke Varley/Paramount+

Luke Varley/Paramount+

She raved that she knew the “splashy project” was “excellent” from the minute she read the scripts, and Gere has similarly gushed about how fun it was to work on the series.

“It’s very well-written… it’s terrific,” he said on theTodayshow last week — minutes afterflipping the bird to host Savannah Guthrie. “I mean, they’re all wonderful. And we shot it like a movie. We do it the same way. Movie directors, movie actors, the schedule is like a movie schedule. It feels the same to me.”

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The first two episodes ofThe Agencyare now streaming on Paramount+.

source: people.com