Jacki Weaver On ‘Magic In The Moonlight,’ Woody Allen [VIDEO EXCLUSIVE]

Well, she’s very needy. Mourning her husband, she’s lonely and she's grasping at any opportunity for comfort, I think. And combined with that, she's quite a naive, gullible, innocent, and so she's right for that sort of swindling – for that sort of trickery. And never the sort of people that prayed on by people who take lots of money to predict things. And I think it’s said in the story that if it gives someone comfort and it doesn't hurt them, and you’re not swindling them a huge amounts of money, then what’s wrong with it? But on the other hand, they are swindling, they are getting lots of money out of her.

Well, it was pretty much all on the page. I’ve got little bits of direction here and there. He doesn’t say a lot. A couple of times he said, “that was perfect!” [laughs]

I’m very open to all of that. I tend to sit on the fence. There’s a great, Nobel Prize-winning writer called Patrick White who says atheists are people who let the imagination to conceive of something that is beyond their comprehension [laughs]. So I wouldn’t say I’m believer, but I’m not a disbeliever.

I think it’s about romance and love. Like all Woody Allen movies, it’s quite philosophical. I think it’s the chemistry, that inexplicable chemistry, that happens between two people is not something that’s… explicable! You cant explain the inexplicable and that’s what I think love is about.

I know a few older, gullible women, and it’s not difficult to imagine how they operate. I’m an older woman, but I’m not gullible!