America's hottest ingenue, Scarlett Johanson, reunites with her "Match Point" director Woody Allen in "Scoop." The film marks a return to Woody's comedic urban style but like "Match Point," set in London rather than his trademark use of New York City. "Scoop" tells of a young aspiring journalist Sondra (Johansson) who receives a haunting message from a dead reporter (Ian McShane): The wealthy, charmer named Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman) is in fact, Britain's famed "Tarot Card Killer." She, along with a bumbling magician (Allen), sets off to investigate the case of a lifetime but finds herself conflicted when she finds that she is falling in love with her subject.

Scarlett talks about working with Woody again in an interview below.

Q: While you were doing "Match Point," did you know right away you would be working with him again?

SCARLETT: We were doing "Match Point" and I so enjoyed Woody's company. I said, "It would've been great if we could've acted together because we have such a banter between us." And he was like, "I'll think of something." So he thought of "Scoop" and "Scoop" was really kind of our off-screen banter just photographed and somehow molded into a screenplay. So that's how it came to be.

Q: Woody Allen has worked with actresses over and over again and since this is now your second film with him, do you see yourself as his latest muse?

SCARLETT: I think "muse" is kind of a silly word that the media's adopted, like a kind of darling word. If you said that to Woody, I think he would think that it's strange. Certainly I'm friends with Woody and working with him is like going to summer camp. You spend a year away and you come back and its like, "Hey, there you are again" and everything's where it was the summer before. So I hope we can work together [again]. I'd be happy to work with Woody forever. I love working with him. But I think it's more of a friendly relationship than anything else.

Q: Did you have any kind of rehearsal process with Hugh Jackman to try to build some chemistry?

SCARLETT: No, Woody really doesn't do any kind of rehearsal. He's just, "Here's the person you're going to fall in love with." Of course, when it's Hugh Jackman, it's not that hard. He's just such a charismatic and charming and incredibly sweet guy. I don't have enough nice things to say about Hugh and working with him. He's just lovely. He's a real movie star.

Q: Woody tends to recommend movies to his actors before shooting. Did he recommend any movies to you, like any Hitchcock films?

SCARLETT: Actually, ironically, Woody had no real required viewing as far as Hitchcock goes, although I'm familiar with many Hitchcock films. I'm a humongous fan, kind of like everybody else, right? Although he did say Judy Holliday in "Born Yesterday," that was his one [recommendation]. But I think Woody is very sentimental and he's seen every film under the sun that was made before a certain period of time and nothing after probably. But I think whatever his inspirations were for writing "Scoop" as he did, he never really shared them with me.

Q: You play your character with a tone that's much more upbeat than what we've seen in. Was this where the Judy Holliday influence came in?

SCARLETT: I wouldn't say that Judy Holliday was an influence. I think that was something that Woody had an idea for the story and the characters - this idea of a lovable idiot. Of course, there's a lot of dialogue in this film so with that comes all kinds of intonation in your voice especially when you're hysterical and especially when you're talking opposite somebody and the conversation escalates. Your voice becomes very melodic and loud and all that. I certainly didn't try to mimic Woody or try to imitate him. That's how we are when we talk to each other. We're both from New York and we both can really banter with each other. It just sort of happened, I didn't have to think about it.

Q: On the same note, this seems like the youngest character you've played in a while too...

SCARLETT: I never think about the age of the character that I'm playing because it's all roughly somebody in their 20s of some sort. I just try to build a backstory for each character that I play. It has to do with their age in some way but I never think about playing something in a more mature way or less. I just use the script as a guide for that. But it was such a great character to play. She's this, what Woody would lovingly call a twit, and kind of an idiot, and kind of ambitious, but totally out of it and obnoxious, but lovable for some reason. It was a really great character to fill out.

Q: Your character is portrayed as one who sleeps with people just to get the story. What do you think Woody Allen's implications are about journalism this way?

SCARLETT: I think Woody finds it kind of humorous the way that people use sex to get things out of one another. He comes from a time when sexuality was frivolous and young pretty girls sleeping around was not seen as scandalous. We live in a conservative society today and it seems to be a huge day. But I think it's great how Woody makes light out of that because the truth is, people are probably having as much sex now as they ever did.

Q: Speaking of journalism, we live in a society now where gossip and tabloids have become more read than the news. How have you taken your increased celebrity now that more weeklies focus their attention on you?

SCARLETT: I don't let any of that affect my private life. Very rarely is anything printed true. It's such a load of crap, most of it. What are you going to do? Get upset over what people think about your life? It's ridiculous. The only thing that disturbs me is when people follow me or stop me or photograph me in my private personal life. I think that's unacceptable. You make certain accommodations and I think for the most part, I stay under the radar. I just don't invite certain things in my life. And I think New York is pretty accommodating for an actor to live with. Most people seem to be respectable. There are a lot of photographers here but I know the subway system, so they can't get me.

"Scoop" opens in theaters this Friday.