NEW YORK – Kenneth Branagh, in town for the presentation of the film at the New York Film Festival, talks about his transformation into the alter ego of Woody Allen in “Celebrity”: “I spent a lot of time reviewing his films” says the actor Shakespearian, who will soon be on the screens in the film “Theory of Flight”, alongside his current companion, the actress Helena Bonham Carter, and is busy these days in the filming of “Wild Wild West” in Los Angeles. “It seemed clear to me that my character was a variation of the film Woody, as much as he wants to deny it: an anxious, neurotic, depressed man, with a maniacal, hypochondriac, unlucky love, as he usually did not give me instructions because he likes to see what an actor brings him, and so I decided not to look physically like him: I did not wear glasses and opted for jeans, which are very far from the world of Woody velvet pants. ” What effect did you, being a director, work with Woody Allen? “At the beginning I felt intimidated, as if blocked by the sense of reverence towards what I consider one of the greatest masters of cinema, but I soon realized that I had to free myself Woody does not like to discuss the character so well, which is fine for me because I like to build a story.The silence for Woody means approval, it only speaks when something does not like it, and then it is brutally honest.He turns quickly, makes very long sequence plans, without so many pauses between one scene and another. As a director I learned from him a great economy of effort, of time, of words “. Before “Wild Wild West” he played an episode of a film based on the novel “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov. Do you like science fiction? “I’ve never been a great science fiction lover, my episode is called” Alien love Triangle “and I did it to work with director Danny Boyle and the force of the script, a sort of spatial adaptation of the” Storm “