Can you talk about how it was working with such a steamy scene with Penelope and Javier? (laughter)

SJ:  Well you know, it's funny because people are so conservative I mean it's amazing, they really are and I think that it's such a, when you see the film it's so, I don't know, these characters fall in love and that's what, you know, people that fall in love are intimate, and also when you're shooting it's so like horribly (unidentified words) there's like 60 grown men eating salami sandwiches, kind of waiting for when they can get up and you know, get up and watch the game or whatever and you just think god are we rolling, because there's like trays of food being passed, oh we are rolling, okay (laughter) you know, nobody cares when you're doing it, of course, it's like your day at work and this is part of the story and then of course you know people get wind and they get excited because they associate like two women who wear you know, gowns at an award show and like gosh, the possibilities, you know?  (laughter) But you know, it's ridiculous, of course I go home at the end of the day and I prepare for the next day, it's not like I sat at home...

Woody made a big joke about that yesterday at the press conference and said that he would just allow you guys, you and Javier, you know, we'll just kiss and kiss and kiss and then, when it was done, that would be the end of it, and...

SJ:  Of course, that's how it always is, but you guys know that, I mean...

But it is very erotic, on the screen...

SJ:  Which is great...

...it's more erotic than most Woody Allen lovemaking scenes.

SJ:  Maybe...

And it's still PG-13 so he's pulled off something really intricate without showing anything, he suggested everything.

SJ:  I think there's a lot of chemistry between the characters and all of us as actors and that's where the steaminess comes from, because it's not really explicit, I mean people kissing, and you even said by the rating, I mean nothing is like crazy about it, but it, you know because there's such a chemistry between the characters and you're really invested in them and it's such a turn it's like whoa, wait a minute, like I thought that this wasn't going to work out but it's seemingly, and even my character's kind of surprised by it herself, it's sort of, you know...

The press reports at the beginning were saying that all the stuff about the threesome and it is going to be Woody Allen's hottest movie, and all of that, and now as you see it, it's obviously a lot tamer than press reports, did you read any of that stuff, did you find it amusing when you were reading about it?

SJ:  I don't know, I mean, when you're working you're so isolated that I never even opened the newspaper, you know, you're so tired, you come home you're exhausted, I never like research what the world thinks about the film but it's funny because it's not like it's, I mean it's Woody, the idea of like Woody Allen's steamiest film is so ridiculous to me (laughter) it's not like it's Bertolucci or something, I mean it's, you know it's like, I don't know, he's so conservative with that kind of thing, he's always, it is sweet, and I think he's quite respectful of the relationship.

I wanted to ask you about Lost In Translation, recently, on the internet, there's been a YouTube clip which kind of elevates the dialogue between you and Bill Murray at the end of the film where there's actually words.  I wanted to know if you've seen this, and if also, when you guys were filming, if he actually said a line to you at that moment in filming?  And if that might be accurate what's on line?

SJ:  I don't know, I didn't even know that, but I'm sure that it's not because we weren't miked, I mean, we had a boom operator and I think that you know, once the boom is like, when we're intimate, if it's, there's no audible and maybe we're like mumbling or something but I don't know how that could be, you know, elevated, I don't know what it is, you'd have to tell me what the...

He's talking about what he whispers in your ear.

SJ:  Yeah, I know what he whispers in my ear but I don't know what the...

The line on line is like even though we can't be together right now, know I'll love you forever, or something like that. 

SJ:  That's nice (laughter).  Yeah, you know, honestly, nothing was written so, and we did the scene so many times I really, I couldn't tell you what was said, but I think that, you know, I don't know, it probably goes along with everybody's like, it's unfortunate because people can, they can't appreciate the film makers decision, to not have that be audible, they can't appreciate what that means, there's a poetry in that obviously, and people are so, I think obsessed with discovering the secret of everything and you know, and uncovering the code and it's sad, it's sad.

It was like that on purpose wasn't it, to be left for audience, you know, your own interpretation.

SJ:  I mean, you really would have to ask Sofia about this, it's more her, you know, I'm just an actor for hire, so...

Your character in this movie, sometimes got lost and doesn't know what she wants, do you have this moment in your life, like sometimes you don't know what you want and you got lost?

SJ:  Sure, I mean, I'm only human, you know, people are you know, I think everyone has times when they struggle with where to go now from here, and you know, I've been fortunate enough always to know what I wanted to do, you know, what I was passionate about and I never had to struggle with that, but you know, in the world of that even in itself there's all kinds of you know, questions you have where I go from here and of course personal times when I felt that way, you know?

Can you talk about Frank Miller, working with Frank Miller on The Spirit?

SJ:  Sure.  What about it?  (laughter)

How much can you divulge?  What was it like working with Frank and also dealing with all of the green screens that you obviously had to do on that?

SJ:  Frank, I loved working with Frank, he's wonderful, he's such a visionary, and so, he's just fantastic, he would come on set you know, and almost lead the whole crew into some kind of you know, like this presentation of, like he would draw the storyboard and kind of lead us, I mean he sees it, he can see how he wants it to, I mean he's a visionary, he really is, and it was exciting, I mean it's very exciting to do that, cause everybody disperses, we all know what we're going to do, and he's so excited about the characters, you know, that's obviously, that's his thing, right?  He like creates these fantastic characters and their, you know, some of them are like so rotten, they're just so rotten you know, and none of his characters are like so gray you know, it's like none of us are heroes, they're all kind of gray, you know?  And I love that.

Are you rotten in that?

SJ:  You're just going to have to see (laughter).  You're just going to have to see, but it was such a wonderful time and you know, actually working with the green screen was really interesting because we're shooting these huge I don't know what, they must have been like an airplane hangar or something, and converted with all this green screen but then Sam and I, our sets were really like, we had a lot of props and we had like our whole set right here so it was almost like a theater in a way, and the camera would be like way back there or like overhead or some crazy angle, and so the performances I think are really theatrical, which is great because it's, obviously the film is a fantasy, you know, film and even when we were doing you know, some of the post production like sound, when he was doing some of the sound editing, it was like, we're so loud, because we're in this huge room, we have to fill this huge room and of course Sam is so loud and the two of us were just like (laughs) so enthusiastic about the whole thing that Frank was like, I actually had to bring the volume of the performance down (laughter) a little bit and make it like a little bit more intimate, it was a lot of fun, we had a really good time on it.

How was it when you work with Javier Bardem?

SJ:  How was it to work with him?  No complaints, it was an easy days work (laughter) you know, you go in, you don't have to worry about wardrobe...

It wasn't hard working with him?

SJ:  It wasn't hard to work with him?  No, Javier's like, you must have met him by now...