Jodie Turner-Smith was excited to show off her daughter Bad – even if she didn’t quite understand the plot.

On Tuesday, November 26 The Agency actress, 38, appeared in an episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and talked about how she recently took her 4.5-year-old daughter Juno to watch Bad on Broadway.

‘And you took her to see it Bad? On Broadway, not in the movies,” Fallon asked.

“I did. Listen, I know she’s a little young, but I was just like Bad is now about to enter the zeitgeist in a very different way now that Cynthia Erivo has undoubtedly slayed this performance,” Turner-Smith explained.” And I was like, ‘I just need her to show her the part for the movie. .’ ”

“She had a lot of questions,” she added jokingly.

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Fallon asked if Juno had ever seen the original film, The Wizard of Ozearlier, to which Turner-Smith said she did not.

“She must have been like, ‘What’s going on?’ Oh my god,” Fallon laughed. ‘She didn’t even see it The Wizard of Oz?”

‘She’s never seen them Wizard of Oz. But I just love Bad so much, and it’s my favorite musical,” Turner-Smith continued. And I just love it. I was excited. I was excited. I wasn’t the only one with a 4½-year-old in it.”

Turner-Smith shares her daughter Juno with ex Joshua Jackson.

In June, Turner-Smith appeared in an episode of Today with Hoda and Jenna and shared how becoming a mother to her daughter has affected her self-confidence.

When asked what becoming a mother has done for her, Turner-Smith was quick to say that motherhood is one of her “favorite things.”

“Honestly, what I love most about myself is being that girl’s mother. I’m so grateful that she chose me as her mother; that I was given that gift in life,” Turner-Smith said. ‘It’s my favorite activity. I mean, it’s just an honor.”

“I feel like it was our birthright for the mother. Whether we bring our children or not, I think it’s a woman’s birthright. We hold space for the people around us. It changed everything about me It has only enriched me. It has only enriched me.” showed me, No. 1, how powerful I am. Like: supreme being – wow!’