Cate Blanchett - "how we've lost the meaning of truth"
The double Oscar winning actress says her new film 'Nightmare Alley' touches on many topical themes, including believing in a lie rather than investing in the truth
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The Australian's latest role as a psychoanalyst in Guillermo del Toro's 'Nightmare Alley' has already secured her a nomination at next month's Screen Actors Guild Awards. The film is a neo-noir psychological thriller set in the 1940s about a conman, played by Bradley Cooper, who starts believing his own lie.
Cate Blanchett thinks it's a theme that will resonate in today's world, in which she says the truth has been politicised - and the confusion between fact and fiction has created a challenging environment for us all.
For 5 Minutes On, she's been talking to our entertainment correspondent, Colin Paterson, about the film, the future of cinema - and how during lockdown the only way she could engage her seven-year-old in home schooling was to dress up as her teacher and impersonate her voice.
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