SCARLETT DESPAIRS OF WOODY ALLEN

The sex symbol, who has been cast in three of the New Yorker's films, says she no longer bothers imposing her musical tastes on the director because he is so stuck in his ways.

"One day, I said something about [the singer] Neil Young and he was like, 'Neil Young? Who's Neil Young?'" she laughs.

"It's impossible. He won't even eat a new kind of sandwich."

The 24-year-old admits she was disappointed to miss out on meeting her idol David Bowie when he recorded backing vocals for her debut album Anywhere I Lay My Head because she was busy filming scenes for Woody's off-beat comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

She tells Glamour magazine: "I was in Spain shooting when he came in. I said to Woody, 'If you knew what I sacrificed to be on this set?' "