Rebecca Hall chats about 'Barcelona'

In Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, British actress Rebecca Hall is seemingly the only one who doesn't kiss Scarlett Johansson.

"I got out of it, so I don't have to worry about answering that question," she jokes, referring to Johansson's amorous and much-ballyhooed smooch with co-star Penelope Cruz. "It's not what you'd expect from Woody, I suppose. I can understand the controversy. But anyone going to see it for that reason will be disappointed."

In the romantic dramedy, now in theaters, Hall's Vicky -- an acid-tongued American with control issues -- spends the summer in the titular Spanish city with her more free-spirited friend Cristina (Johansson). They become entangled with a local painter (Javier Bardem) and his loco ex-wife (Cruz).

Hall, 26, will next be seen this winter in Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon, the retelling of the post-Watergate interviews between British ...