
When Jodie Turner-Smith and Michael Fassbender were getting into position to film a sex scene for their new TV show, The Agency — a George Clooney-produced American take on the hugely popular French spy series, Le Bureau des Légendes (The Bureau) — things were feeling a bit awkward.
“It's totally unnatural. It's not sexy,” she says, sitting across from me in a brightly lit room of Embankment’s prestigious Corinthia Hotel, flanked by various staff, crew and publicists. A boom mic hangs above us in preparation for later filmed interviews.