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Jodie Turner-Smith has had a great year.

The 38-year-old British actress made her Star Wars debut The Acolyteplayed the witchy dragon queen Bad monkey and now stars as the complicated love interest of Michael Fassbender The agency.

She filmed the first two shows “two years ago,” she tells PEOPLE, but The agency, which The film, which was shot just months ago, is about to premiere on November 29th.

“It happens so quickly, so this is something different,” she says of Paramount+’s spy political thriller, a new take on the French drama Le Bureau des Legende, what Turner-Smith calls a “splashy project.”

She remembers reading the scripts thinking, “This is pretty good,” and the opportunity to work with the 47-year-old Fassbender didn’t hurt either.

“(He’s) someone I’ve really wanted to work with for a long time,” she says, adding that she’s a “long-time fan.”

Michael Fassbender as Martian and Jodie Turner Smith as Samia Zahir in “The Agency.”

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She was also drawn to her character Samia – a secret love interest of Fassbender from his secret operation in Ethiopia and a professor.

“She is extremely intelligent. She is an academic and speaks Arabic, one of the most beautiful languages ​​in the world. And it’s complicated.”

Still, Turner-Smith doesn’t shy away from admitting that taking part in the show, which also stars Richard Gere and Jeffrey Wright, was daunting. “I’m always nervous before every job. I feel like that’s a good thing. Because if you’re not nervous, I don’t know, maybe something is dead inside.”

“I still constantly feel like I’m just getting started,” she continues. “I feel like I’ve only been doing this for two seconds. I still have so much to learn and so much I want to learn. I was definitely nervous. And I feel like I was so empowered by the kindness and generosity.” The person I got to shoot so many scenes with was Michael Fassbender.

Jeffrey Wright as Henry and Richard Gere as Bosko in “The Agency.”

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It was exciting to bring to life the “love story” between Samia and Fassbender’s character Martian, who Samia knows as Paul.

“I think that with every character I play, there is always a place within me that I can identify with,” she says. “I felt like it was such a fundamental experience to love someone deeply, and I think a lot of us have had the experience of loving someone deeply, to someone with whom we have some kind of heartbreak. It feels like it can’t work.” . It shouldn’t work. And what are we willing to risk everything for?”

Jodie Turner Smith on September 22, 2023 in Milan, Italy.

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The Paramount+ series follows Fassbender’s character, an undercover CIA agent, after he is “ordered to give up his undercover life and return to the London train station,” according to the official synopsis.

But when Samia (Turner-Smith), the “love he left behind,” shows up in London, their romance “rekindles.”

“His career, his true identity and his mission conflict with his heart, throwing both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.”

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The first two episodes of The agency Premieres Friday, November 29th on Paramount+.

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