Jodie Turner-Smith Shares Summer Plans With Daughter Juno

Jodie Turner-Smith Shares Summer Plans With Daughter Juno

Jodie Turner-Smith has the scoop on her summer plans.

With her 40th birthday around the corner on Sept. 7, the Agency star plans to kick off the celebrations early alongside her and ex-husband Joshua Jackson’s 6-year-old daughter, Juno.

“I will be celebrating starting from June 1,” Turner-Smith exclusively shared with E! News’ Will Marfuggi. “Summertime we can do the traveling. My daughter's not in school. That's the time when we get to do all of our fun things.”

Turning 40 felt especially important for Turner-Smith as she’s not only celebrating her birthday, she’s celebrating where she is at this moment in her life.

“I feel like I look better than I've ever looked. I feel better than I've ever looked. I'm like, I just keep getting better,” the 39-year-old said. “I’m doing better. I’m getting to do work that I've dreamed of—work with incredible people.”

She added, “This is a celebration.”

And it’s always a celebration with Juno, whom Turner-Smith credits with helping her push aside some of the more difficult aspects of shooting season two of the Agency—especially as her character goes through some harrowing ordeals this season.

“I’m a mum,” she explained to E!, “so that is a part of existence.”

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“If your brain is working as it needs to—and there's not anything chemically imbalanced to prevent you from being able to—I think it's a very natural instinct, in the same way that a fight or flight is an instinct. Your instinct is to protect your child and your child's well-being,” Turner-Smith noted. “It’s just two totally different worlds. Going home to my daughter is nothing like spending 10, 12 hours inside of a Moroccan prison cell.”

Despite the sometimes stressful nature of her work—including on the Paramount+ thriller—the Tron: Ares star has always felt it’s important to have Juno on set with her whenever she’s able to.

“That's honestly the best part of it," Turner-Smith told E! News in October. "Not just my little one. One of the most amazing things about this job and this career is that I can share the amazing things I'm doing with my family."

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“It’s important for a young girl to see her mother, a woman, living her dreams and loving that, and loving her job," the Queen & Slim star continued. “I think it's important for little girls to see women being fulfilled. And that's all I choose to model for my daughter, fulfillment."

As for whether Juno might follow in her parents’ acting footsteps? "I mean, who knows what she'll do,” Turner-Smith admitted. “The world is absolutely her oyster."

The Agency season two premieres June 21, with all 10 episodes available on Paramount+.

For a look at more stars and their mini-mes, keep reading.

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