Evan Rachel Wood found her latest movie role a challenge — because she had to play dumb!
The Wrestler star plays Melodie in the Woodie Allen movie Whatever Works — and says she found it really difficult to play a stupid person.
“I don’t want to sound pompous saying it, but it was really hard to play dumb,” she says.
But Evan had a great time doing it. “I was worried that she was going to be really annoying or really endearing. There’s a fine line there and I didn’t want to cross it. But I think she’s sweet. I had fun actually. It was kind of nice to not have to come to set and cry every day.”
Wood, 21, recently revealed her fear that Allen would fire her from Whatever Works — after she screwed up her very first scene.
“You hear things about what it’s like to work with him,” she said. “You know — he reshoots a lot, that people will get fired if it’s not working. That he’ll just say, ‘This isn’t working, I’ll recast.’
“Knowing I hadn’t done comedy before, I hadn’t met him, I hadn’t auditioned — the first day I was just convinced I was going to be fired. Sweating. I knew I could do it if I could just keep my nerves under control. But the first scene we shot we ended up re-shooting anyway, so you’re not going to see it.”
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