Actress Joanna Web page revealed a scary state of affairs by which she was held hostage by a taxi driver and was ordered to strip bare so he might take photographs of her.
Web page, 48, lately defined that the expertise came about 20 years in the past when she was filming the BBC miniseries To the Ends of the Earth in South Africa.
“After I first arrived to movie, a number of the forged had been there earlier than me as a result of [I play] a personality who comes into it later,” Web page, who performed Marion Chumley on the present, stated whereas showing on the Wednesday, September 24, episode of Russell Howard‘s “5 Sensible Issues” podcast. “So I acquired to the lodge they usually stated, ‘You possibly can’t go wherever with out your chaperone.’ And I believed ‘Oh, that is ridiculous, I’m actually bored, I must get out and about and do some stuff.’”
She then recalled asking if she might get a taxi and go to a mall. “They stated, ‘We actually don’t assume it’s best to do that,’ and I stated, ‘I wish to do it,’” Web page stated.
As soon as she arrived on the mall, she famous that the “ambiance simply modified” after she spent the afternoon there.
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“It simply began feeling actually menacing. I had no approach of getting again to the lodge, I didn’t have a automotive, I didn’t actually know the place I used to be going,” she continued. “I bear in mind leaving the [mall] and there was a [parking lot] and a great deal of fellas in vehicles in every single place.”
Web page resorted to asking one of many males within the vehicles to take her again to the lodge, noting she would have been “caught” in any other case.
“So I acquired within the automotive after which he drove off and he drove me round for about an hour and [30 minutes] telling me that he was going to take me someplace, I used to be going to take off all of my garments and he was going to take photographs of me,” she stated.
Web page continued, “And I simply bear in mind considering, ‘Oh my God,’ you realize more often than not you will discover your self in dodgy conditions however you sort of assume, ‘Oh, I can get myself out of this fairly simply.”
She went on to say that the expertise within the automotive “was the one state of affairs” she ever thought, “You’re within the s–t. That is critical. You possibly can’t get your self out of this. I don’t know what I’m going to do.”
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In an try and get out of the state of affairs, Web page stated she would “snort with him, make him snort, inform some jokes, be fairly saucy again to him.”
“So I did that for about an hour and a half as he simply drove me round and round and ultimately he took me again to the lodge,” the Love Truly actress stated. “I acquired out of the automotive, ran straight up into reception. I used to be simply [in] such a state and I instructed them every part that had occurred.”
Web page admitted she was “extremely fortunate” to have survived the expertise, including that she would by no means “do something like that once more.”
Nonetheless, Web page revealed she wasn’t the one individual concerned with the miniseries who was held hostage by a cab driver. She shared throughout the podcast that costar Benedict Cumberbatch was additionally kidnapped and held for hours throughout their time in South Africa.
