Jodie TurnerSmith Talks Bond with Daniel Kaluuya: He 'Cannot Escape Being Friends with Me Ever' (Exclusive) Jack SmartOctober 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM 0 Lucy North/PA Images via Getty Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie TurnerSmith in 2024 Jodie TurnerSmith tells PEOPLE about starring in the new movie Tron: Ares a...
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Jodie Turner-Smith tells PEOPLE about starring in the new movie Tron: Ares and more
The actress counts fellow British actor Daniel Kaluuya as "a very good friend," she says
After playing a couple in 2019's Queen & Slim, Turner-Smith is eager to work with Kaluuya again: "We're great together"
Jodie Turner-Smith wants to be Daniel Kaluuya's queen again.
"Daniel, I think it's been enough years," the British actress says while speaking to PEOPLE, addressing her costar in 2019's Queen & Slim. "Let's go. When's our next project?"
With her latest movies, Tron: Ares and A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, in theaters now, Turner-Smith, 39, is reflecting on the former scene partners who have become friends. The latter film marks her onscreen reunion of sorts with Colin Farrell after 2021's After Yang.
"I'm a friendly person, so I don't, to my knowledge, think that I've worked with anyone yet who was like, 'I hated her,' " she says. "But also, our lives are so crazy that it's hard to just always keep in touch with people."
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Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya in 'Queen & Slim'
Kaluuya, 36, "is a very good friend of mine," she continues. "That one, I'm literally like, 'Yeah, you cannot escape being friends with me ever because I love you.' "
Asked if it's inevitable that she'll be collaborating with the Oscar-winning Judas and the Black Messiah star again soon, Turner-Smith says they "damn well better be. … Let's do something totally different. Anyone out there reading this, JTS and Daniel Kaluuya, let's go, something else! Obviously, we're great together."
Directed by Melina Matsoukas and written by Lena Waithe, Queen & Slim was a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde tragedy starring Turner-Smith and Kaluuya as a new couple who must go on the run after killing a police officer in self-defense. Spoiler alert: The titular characters' romance is a doomed one, with their story ending in a deadly stand-off with police.
For Turner-Smith, who has had her share of death onscreen in various film and television projects, another round with Kaluuya could serve as a corrective to that. "This time nobody's dying, please," she says with a laugh. "I just want to live. That's what I want to do next: live at the end of a movie. I'm just kidding."
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Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya in 2019
Among Kaluuya's upcoming projects are writer-director Chris Rock's Misty Green, and reprising his voice role in upcoming sequel Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (scheduled for a June 18, 2027 release).
Tron: Ares is in theaters now. Turner-Smith also stars in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, in theaters now, and will continue to feature in Paramount+ spy drama The Agency's upcoming second season.
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