Evan Rachel Wood knows what she wants

Evan Rachel Wood shows her competitive spirit (she's one of the best in the industry) as she talks about her experience in making The Ides of March, screened at ADFF.If there's one thing about Evan Rachel Wood it's that she knows what she wants."I don't talk about politics," she tells one journalist, who is left startled. Considering her latest role is playing a girl immersed in American politics you can kind of understand her confusion.A conversation with the confident 24-year-old is a bit like being in an interview for a job you haven't prepared for.Wood answers questions with little hesitation — clear, concise and straight to the point. She finishes a sentence, knowing you want more, but equally satisfied she has done everything that was required.Before you know it, her cropped blonde hair surfaces as her eyes dart from her feet to directly meet mine and there's a flash of awkwardness as you stumble around for something else to throw.Luckily for me, Wood, by her own admission, is the same in most aspects of her life. "I love competition," she said. "I like to do what people ask and move on."Life on the set of her latest movie, The Ides of March, which featured at this year's Abu Dhabi Film Festival, with her heart-throb co-star Ryan Gosling, was no different."Sometimes it felt like a tennis match between us," she said as her eyes made it completely clear she perhaps wasn't telling the whole story. "I think we were trying to intimidate one another and trying to serve it up as best we could. You can't ask for a better leading man."