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Jodie Turner-Smith on Portraying a Sudanese Woman in ‘The Agency’: “We Should All Be Able to Play Each Other”
The Hollywood ReporterStory by Brande Victorian
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Jodie Turner-Smith discusses her role as a Sudanese professor in Showtime's new spy thriller 'The Agency,' tackling accents, and how Black actors should be able to portray characters across the African diaspora.
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- Turner-Smith was nervous to work with her co-star Michael Fassbender, a 'massive movie star,' but found him to be kind, generous, and unserious on set, cracking jokes and making the experience a good one for her.
- Turner-Smith is proud to play a dark-skinned Sudanese woman on the show, as representation of Sudanese people is often skewed towards those with fairer, more Arab-looking features, and she hopes Arabic-speaking viewers feel seen in her performance.
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Jodie Turner-Smith, Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Richard Gere, Joe Wright, Joshua Jackson, Showtime, The Agency, Le Bureau, The Agency