Diane Lane: I wish Anniversary was more fictitious

Diane Lane wishes Anniversary was "more fictitious".

The 60-year-old actress stars alongside the likes of Kyle Chandler, Madeline Brewer, Zoey Deutch, Phoebe Dynevor, Mckenna Grace, and Dylan O'Brien in the new thriller film, which focuses on a family that clashes as the country embraces a controversial movement, and Diane admits that she loved working on the project.

She told People: "It's a gift to be making a story that you're passionate about. It's a gift to have a screenplay that is addressing issues that touch people's lives. Fiction is great — I wish this was more fictitious."

Diane also believes that the movie is being released at the perfect time of the year.

The Hollywood star - who plays a college professor and matriarch of a wealthy family in the new film - said: "The fact that we're coming out on Halloween is perfect because this is a horror story. It's just that we don't have made-up monsters, we have ideologies that are concerning."

What's more, Diane heaped praise on screenwriter Lori Rosene-Gambino, observing that the script is "so powerful".

She explained: "You can feel the tension, and that's important. It's not necessarily the dialogue."

Earlier this week, Diane admitted that her own experience of parenthood inspired her performance in Anniversary.

The movie star - whose daughter is actress Eleanor Lambert - told Us Weekly: "Once you are a parent, you don’t feel like you have to pretend as much.

"I understand the need for each generation to have its own set of identity that feels as though it cannot be understood by the previous one. So with great patience and hope as a parent, you’re going to be able to bridge the quote on quote ‘divide.’

"But at the same time, I think every 80 years, we achieve a blind spot to our own history, which is probably why we tend to repeat it in an 80-year cycle where each generation seems surprised. And yet if you look at history, it’s not so surprising."

Diane also admitted that she relished the experience of working with director and co-writer Jan Komasa.

The award-winning actress said: "As a Polish citizen, his country has certainly been yanked around and survived a lot of invasive ideologies, to put it mildly. So I felt like we were in good hands with [him] here. He knows exactly what he’s doing, and I’m a fan of his previous work. We were his first English-speaking film, so it was an honour."