It’s an old interview (June 2009) but an interesting read nevertheless!
Evan Rachel Wood is one of those actresses whose appearance and manner change so much from role to role that she can be hard to recognize. This may be another way of saying that she’s good. She is twenty-one and has been working since she was five—her parents, back in North Carolina, were theatre people. Her first real whiff of stardom was the 2003 movie “Thirteen”; her second was the news, a few years later, that she was dating Marilyn Manson. Last year, she had a brief but fierce turn as Mickey Rourke’s daughter in “The Wrestler.” Next year, she’ll play Mary Jane in Julie Taymor’s version of “Spider-Man,” on Broadway. This month, she fills the gamine slot in the new Woody Allen comedy, “Whatever Works.” She does perky, blond, and dumb as a naïve foundling who marries a curmudgeonly physicist played by Larry David, whose part Allen wrote thirty years ago for Zero Mostel. A euphemist might observe that the role is timeless.
