The 52-year-old actress plays a psychoanalyst who becomes involved with a circus mind-reader in ‘Nightmare Alley’, and although the film is set in the 1940s, Cate thinks its theme of deception is still relevant to the modern world.
She explained: “In today’s world, facing the truth is a very dangerous, almost circus-like game. We’re terrified of the truth. Somehow the notion of the truth has become politicised, and it’s being used to estrange ourselves not only from each other and community from community, but from ourselves.”