What a holiday story…
Aussie star Rebel Wilson is an absolute gun at interviews, never failing to make interviewers and fellow interviewees lose it with her unbridled IDGAF attitude and grit. However, upon occasion she’s been known to put the jokes and wit away, especially when the topic of conversation is of a different vintage to that of comedic, and her recent interview with Ant Middleton is, well, literally anything but humorous.
Speaking to Middleton for his new show Straight Talking, where they trek it out into the Mexican wilderness, the Pitch Perfect actress opened up on the time she was travelling through Africa with some mates, however things took a turn for the worst in Mozambique, when they were suddenly kidnapped.
Baring her heart to the former British solider, Wilson said “There was one time in Africa where I got kidnapped. It was in rural Mozambique. We were on this cattle truck and these men came on another truck with a lot of guns. [They pulled up beside us] with the big guns and they were like, ‘Yeah, you’ve got to get off your truck’. They took us to a house in the middle of nowhere. I felt like I was very good in the crisis. I was like a team leader.”
“They sat us down, and I said, ‘Everybody link arms,’ because I was petrified in the night that they might want to take one of the girls or something.”
However, the story thankfully had a happy ending, with the group being allowed to leave after the kidnappers were certain they weren’t transporting illegal goods, with Wilson adding “Luckily we weren’t harmed and then the next day they came and said, ‘Your truck is ready now. You can go go go.’
“We didn’t ask any questions. We just got back on that truck and got out of there and crossed the South African border a few hours later. I think maybe those guys, maybe, used us to smuggle illegal things in the bottom of the truck.”
Pretty out of the blue right? Safe to say Middleton is all of us reacting to that, with the hardened solider replying “I was expecting you to say, ‘Yeah I came face to face with a snake or a spider’, and then you tell me you got kidnapped at gunpoint.
“You need to do a hardcore action movie.”
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Pretty insane. You can catch the full episode of Ant Middleton and Rebel Wilson: Straight Talking on Sky One. Watch the teaser for the episode below.
