Joshua Jackson said Jodie Turner-Smith changed his mind about getting married and having children

• Joshua Jackson spoke to The Times about his relationship with his wife, Jodie Turner-Smith.
• Jackson said he wasn't ready for marriage or children before dating Turner-Smith.

Joshua Jackson said he wasn't ready to get married or have children until he met his current wife, Jodie Turner-Smith.

Jackson shared details about his relationship with Turner-Smith in an interview with The Times published on Sunday. Jackson, who dated Diane Kruger for 10 years before marrying Turner-Smith, told the outlet his change in perspective was "partially" age.

"I'm old enough to be able to do this. Partially it's about finding somebody in the right moment of life," Jackson said. "If we had met five years earlier we probably would have had a torrid affair, but all the rest of this stuff, I was just not ready. I didn't think I ever wanted to get married."

The couple met through a mutual friend at a Los Angeles charity event in 2018, the outlet reported.

"In the beginning we did this dance with each other like, 'Oh, this is casual.' Except that we'd spend every moment together and find reasons to be in other cities together at the same time," Jackson said.

Turner-Smith proposed to Jackson around January 2019 while celebrating New Year's Eve together in Nicaragua. By August 2019, the couple was spotted leaving a Beverly Hills courthouse with what appeared to be a marriage certificate. Turner-Smith seemed to further confirm their relationship by posting a photo of them gazing into each other's eyes on Instagram. The couple welcomed their first child in April 2022.

"I don't know if she planned it or if it was a spur-of-the-moment thing, but out popped a proposal I was not expecting and the organic and instinctive answer was yes," Jackson told the outlet. "Six months later she was pregnant and we were on our way. And now we have this beautiful baby who is literally the manifestation of that love. It is impossible for me to look into the face of my child without feeling love for my wife."

He added that fatherhood "has changed me in every single possible way."

In July 2021, Jackson told Insider's Libby Torres that his and Turner-Smith's relationship began as a "three-night stand."

"I mean, when we tell the baby the story, I think I'm probably going to lead with, 'I saw your mother from across the room and just like knew I had to be with her,' which is also true," Jackson said. "But my wife is not telling a lie when she says we'd started off mostly with sex."