Love Actually’s Joanna Page Shares She Was Held Hostage by Taxi Driver, Told to Strip Naked

Fortunately, Joanna did manage to come up with a plan on the spot.

“I thought, ‘Just laugh. Just laugh with him. Make him laugh. Tell some jokes. Be quite saucy back to him if he’s saying he’s gonna do this, laugh back and be really, really cheeky,’” she shared. “So I did that for about an hour and a half as he just drove me around and around and then eventually he took me back to the hotel.”

And upon her return, Joanna recounted her experience to the staff, who gave her a stern warning for the rest of her stay.

“They said, ‘Oh my god, you’re so incredibly lucky. You’re just really lucky,’” she said, adding that the receptionists told her, “Don’t ever, ever do anything like that again.”

Still, a similar situation did transpire during the same shoot when Benedict, 49, was also held hostage after going on a diving excursion with friends. When the group, accoridng to Variety, pulled over after their tire blew out on the drive back, they were robbed and abducted by six men before eventually being left tied up.