Jodie Turner-Smith Jokes She Wants ‘Another Baby’ (Exclusive)

“I’m single, but I love love,” Jodie Turner-Smith tells PEOPLE when asked about her current romantic situation. “So let’s see what happens!”

The British Tron: Ares star, 39, knows where her priorities are when it comes to both family and her thriving screen career. As she shares in this week’s issue of PEOPLE, she’s focused on both — without compromise. 

“I love mothering and I love working, and I don’t feel I should have to choose between them,” says Turner-Smith, who shares 5-year-old daughter Juno with ex-husband Joshua Jackson. “I want to teach my daughter that she shouldn’t have to either because we live in a society that makes women feel that you can only be this or that… I really believe in creating a reality of both/and.”

Where might a romantic partner fit into Turner-Smith’s full life? “My priority is my daughter,” says the Queen & Slim star, who is currently splitting time between filming season 2 of Paramount+ spy drama The Agency in London, parenting Juno in their home in Los Angeles and planning a vacation (probably to Jamaica, where her parents are originally from). 

But, she adds with a laugh, “My heart is open because I definitely need to have another baby. I want another baby — but I don’t necessarily need the man to go along with it!”

Turner-Smith and Jackson, 47, married in 2019 and split in 2023, settling their divorce this May.

Since then, she says, her expectations for a partner are high: “Anybody who wants to deal with me or date me or love me or whatever needs to understand that [Juno is] my priority… If I’ve made time to go out on a date with you, you need to figure it out. Send a car. Where are you taking me? A real date! Not a meetup.”

In fact, she has an example for the kind of devotion she’s looking for: Michael Fassbender’s character The Martian in The Agency, who by the end of the show’s first season is desperate to save Turner-Smith’s imprisoned Samia. 

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“It’s incredible to see the lengths that he will go to for the woman that he loves,” she quips. “I’m willing to date if it’s a man who’s going to be doing that, like do the most. Are you obsessed to the point of maybe a little bit of a psychopath? Because if the answer’s no, keep it moving.”

She’s “just kidding,” she assures us. But it’s quite the dating philosophy: “Are you going to commit treason for me or not?”

Turner-Smith stars in Tron: Ares and A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, both in theaters now.

For more on Turner-Smith, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, or subscribe here.