{"id":256111,"date":"2025-09-26T12:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256111\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:41:11","slug":"love-actually-star-reveals-she-was-kidnapped-while-filming-bbc-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256111\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Love Actually\u2019 Star Reveals She Was Kidnapped While Filming BBC Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actress Joanna Page is opening up about her scary experience being held captive while working in South Africa 20 years ago. During a recent appearance on the \u201cFive Brilliant Things\u201d podcast<\/a>, Page, 48, revealed she was once taken hostage while filming the 2005 BBC miniseries To the Ends of the Earth. The Gavin & Stacey star said she was visiting a nearby mall when she asked a local man, who told her he was a taxi driver, to bring her back to her hotel. Instead, the man drove around for 90 minutes, refusing to let her out of his car and telling her he would force her to strip for naked photos. \u201cIt was the only situation I think I\u2019ve ever been in in my life where I thought, \u2018You\u2019re in the s—. This is serious. You can\u2019t get yourself out of this,\u2019\u2019 Page told host Russell Howard. Eventually, the actress decided to charm the driver into letting her go. \u201cI thought, okay, just laugh with him, make him laugh, tell some jokes, be saucy,\u201d said Page. The man ultimately returned her to the hotel, where staff told her she was \u201cso incredibly lucky\u201d to have gotten away unharmed. However, Page wasn\u2019t the only cast member to face a dangerous situation during production. Her co-star, Benedict Cumberbatch, was later abducted and held at gunpoint alongside two friends after their car broke down during a break from filming. The actor said in 2012<\/a> that surviving the ordeal had \u201cmade [him] want to live a life slightly less ordinary.\u201d <\/p>\n

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