Will Tracey Ullman work with Woody Allen again?
“I bloody hope so! He needs me!” the actress tells Sandra Bordigoni, while discussing Small Time Crooks, in which she plays Allens ex-cons ex-exotic dancer . . . if you follow. The character you play in the film is quite unusual for you and for a Woody Allen film… Frenchy, my character, comes from a very poor family and it’s exciting for her to suddenly have money. This is a movie about the working class people and not about the New York intelligentsia with all the complexity of a typical Woody Allen movie. What I mean is that this time it’s just a comedy and it’s just fun. We didn’t try to create a new religion or say something particularly deep. We just wanted to make people laugh. What is it like to be directed by Woody Allen? I enjoyed working with Woody because he let me improvise and gave me a lot of space and now I really believe that we’re married, because I am definitely closer to his age than many of his recent leading ladies… [laughs]. Woodys direction is very simple. He
