Actress
Anna
Friel
says
she
was
terrified
when
while
shooting
a
wildlife
documentary
in
Africa,
a
gorilla
charged
at
one
of
her
crew
members.
The
37-year-old
headed
to
Uganda
in
August
this
year
to
make
a
film
highlighting
the
plight
of
mountain
gorillas,
but
the
trip
almost
ended
in
a
nightmare
for
her
when
a
silverback
primate
turned
on
one
of
the
members,
reports
contactmusic.com.
"We
got
charged
by
a
silverback,
which
was,
erm...
okay!
We
were
told
to
act
passive
and
submissive
but
it
goes
against
every
single
instinct
in
the
body
when
you
see
a
huge
thing
making
a
loud
screeching
noise...
and
you
are
not
allowed
to
run," Friel
told
Hello
magazine.
"You
have
to
stay
and
go,
'I'm
a
tree
and
there's
a
big
thing
running
at
me'.
"We
heard
this
almighty
sound
as
one
crashed
through
the
trees
towards
our
photographer
and
came
this
close
and
then
swung
away
again.
It
was
like
someone
going,
'Yeah?
Come
on
then,'
showing
their
power
and
that
it's
their
forest.
My
heart
was
pumping."
Friel
made
her
debut
in
films
in
1998
in
David
Leland's
Land
Girls.
She
has
since
then
made
a
number
of
films
appearing
with
notable
co-stars
as
Christian
Bale,
Gerard
Butler,
Colin
Farrell,
Keira
Knightley,
Robert
De
Niro,
Will
Ferrell,
and
Rachel
Weisz.
Outside
of
film,
Anna
Friel
is
probably
best
known
in
the
USA
for
her
work
as
Charlotte
"Chuck" Charles
in
the
ABC
comedy
series
Pushing
Daisies
for
which
she
was
nominated
for
a
Golden
Globe
Award
in
2008.