Kate Beckinsale has praised the role of journalists in society, insisting without the media we'd be living in a "police state". The actress plays journalist Simone Ford in new psychological thriller 'The Face of an Angel'. Beckinsale said: "It was weird for me to be playing the journalist but I realised quickly how important it was for my character that people were giving her information. It isn't just salacious, it isn't just what she wore in court. And if we don't have journalists we live in a police state." "I think it's also true that journalists and actors share some qualities. Say you're having a terrible argument with your boyfriend and you're breaking up. For an actor there's this still slight distance where you're observing the event, thinking, 'This is what it looks and feels like to be breaking up with someone.' I think that journalists have that same ability to step back and see things from a different perspective. That doesn't necessarily make the journalist an a**ehole, any more than it does the actor."
