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Nola is disqualified from such consideration by gradually being reduced to an increasingly petu- lant sexpot with little acting talent and less and less self-esteem. For her part, Chloe begins with such little self-esteem that she . pursues Chris as if he were her last hope to get married, an impression that her father, Alec (Brian Cox), and mother, Eleanor (Penelope Wilton), reinforce by their almost embarrassing eagerness to Writer-director Woody Allen sets up a shot embrace Chris as their son-in-law. with his director of photography Remi By contrast, Eleanor is so acerbic Adefarasin, left, on the set of Match Point. to Nola that her son eventually breaks his engagement, compelling becomes-even more impatient aftei- - Nola to return home to Colorado. Tom marries a more socially accept- Meanwhile, Chloe begins badgering able partner than Nola and in short Chris soon after their marriage to get order provides a grandchild for his her pregnant immediately. She Luck Be A Lady A nice Jewish girl in WASPY lead role. I- Ivor Davis I Featurewell.com t just 21, Scarlett Johansson is polishing her leading lady chops. The beautiful young actress gets to play an empty-headed but dangerous sex bomb in Woody Allen's new drama Match Point. She's Nola Rice, a skittish, out-of-work American actress, living in London, who has a passionate affair with an ambitious Irish tennis pro, Chris Wilton, played by Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, who happens to be engaged to Chloe (Emily Mortimer), sister of Nola's fiance (Matthew Goode.) So how does Scarlet enjoy playing, well — a "scarlet woman"? "I was attracted to Nola's desperation:' she says,"although a lot of people said, 'Oh, she's this confident girl and then she suddenly turns into this neurotic person." But that's misleading, Scarlett believes. "She's really confident throughout, and then she's very strong-willed and knows what she wants. She makes her decision to keep her child (conceived with Chris), and that's when it all unravels." What makes Nola so angry, says Scarlett, is that she believes her lover is a liar. "It's his empty promises that drive her to desperate kind of measures, like going to his house and wanting to confront his wife because she's going crazy over it. To me it felt real. I felt everything she did was very reasonable and within the confines of what people would do under those cir- A cumstances:' Scarlett says before landing the meaty role, she was a huge Woody Allen fan — probably long before I was supposed to be watching his movies." It also meant she was very nervous when she went to work for the director — particularly as she was a last-minute choice for the role. ' "I don't know if I was intimidated, but I was really cast a week before shooting started. When I arrived in London, we did these camera tests, which were horrible and long. Woody was just sort of standing behind the camera. Then they started coming out with all of these outfits, which is like my worst nightmare. "The next day we shot a complicated scene where my character had to explain her entire story to Jonathan's character. You don't expect that you're going to have five pages of dialogue." In fact because she was so edgy, she says, "My first takes were horrible. Then I realized that I better suck it up. because I had seven weeks of it:' Now that the movie is out, Scarlett says she's annoyed that though Match Point doesn't have any nudity or rough lan- guage, it has been given an R-rating. "I don't understand ratings at all; in fact, I don't think movies should be rated. I think its silly. I never pay attention to them. My parents never paid attention to them, and I turned out all right. "I don't know what they mean when they say a film has adult content:' she con- "