She’s been so mired in vampires, creepy motels, rom-coms, and Adam Sandler movies that people have started to forget that at one point Kate Beckinsale seemed on her way to becoming a pretty good actress. Now it looks like she’s trying to take a step back from being everybody’s favorite British eyecandy to do something with heft.

In Nothing But the Truth, Kate Beckinsale plays a Washington DC reporter who writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent. When a special government prosecutor demands she divulge her source she refuses and is sent to jail, where she stays fighting for her principals. You never reveal your source.

Watch the first trailer for Nothing But the Truth below: