You know what I find to be the single most grating thing about reporters? They way they’re always asking questions and talking to you and stuff. It’s like, can you please keep a ten foot distance like everyone else? What’s wrong with you? I honestly don’t understand why journalists insist on all the queries. Shouldn’t they have better things to do?

So naturally my heart goes out to poor Evan Rachel Wood. She was at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday night for the screening of her Woody Allen film “Whatever Works,” when a reporter actually had the gall to come within five feet of her (presumably), and ASK A QUESTION. Where do these people get off? Evan naturally did what any well-heeled young lady would do: covered her face and angrily stomped out of the event. You go girl! Don’t you dare give in to that bitch and answer a question!

EVAN Rachel Wood plays a bubbly blonde in Woody Allen’s bum bling “Whatever Works,” which kicked off the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday — but she was neither bubbly nor a blonde at the after- party. The actress, sporting a red dye job, agreed to pose for photos, but stormed out with her hands over her face almost immediately after being asked a simple question by a reporter. Her publicist later explained that she was feeling “overcrowded.” Allen didn’t stay long either, with his rep also chalking up his early exit to his “feeling claustrophobic.”

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Apparently the Tribeca Film Festival is held in a matchbox. I could see how that’d get a little uncomfortable: hundreds of people shoved in there. Sure, you could remove the matchsticks and give them a little more space, but that’d kill the ambiance. It’s funny, because I’ve wandered around the area and most of the theaters look to be a regular size. Nothing gigantic mind you, but I think you could fit at least a couple dozen people in them and only be elbowed in the eye two or three times throughout the course of the night. I wonder why in the world they chose to hold such a big event in what was clearly an empty can of baked beans, judging by Evan Rachel Wood and Woody Allen’s reactions.

Or maybe they could just calm the hell down and be gracious! That film must have been a blast to shoot with the rampant (and apparently contagious) claustrophobia hopping around. Good luck promoting your movie; I’m sure it’ll get a lot of great press.

Here’s Evan Rachel Wood at the premiere of ‘Whatever Works’ during the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival held at Ziegfeld on Wednesday. Images thanks to WENN.com .