Joanna Page is recalling a scary incident.

The Love Actually star detailed the traumatic ordeal she experienced in South Africa 20 years ago, shorty after arriving in the country to film the 2005 BBC miniseries To the Ends of the Earth , which also starred Benedict Cumberbatch .

“When I first arrived to film, some of the cast were there before me,” she said on the Sept. 24 episode of Russell Howard ’s Five Brilliant Things podcast. “So I got to the hotel and they said, ‘You can't go anywhere without your chaperone.’ And I thought, ‘This is ridiculous. I'm really bored, I need to get out and about and do some stuff.’”

Despite the warning, Joanna, 48, insisted that the staff call her a taxi to take her to a local mall, where things eventually took a turn.

“I went to a shop

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