Turner hitchhiked to store in Wales

CARDIFF, Wales, May 30 (UPI) -- U.S. film star Kathleen Turner said she hitchhiked for the first time recently in Wales because she needed breakfast fixings and didn't have a car.

Turner had been in the country for the Hay Festival, a celebration of arts and literature, and was staying in a country cottage when she realized she had nothing for breakfast, the Western Mail reported.

The actress said she had no phone and car, so she looked for an obliging motorist and hitched a ride to a store.

"This gentleman Martin took me in his car, but told me he was just going for petrol," Turner recalled. "So I said I understood that at the petrol station there's a little store where I can get the basics for breakfast. He said he was going to the Hay Festival and I said: 'So am I. I'm the American actress Kathleen Turner.' He said, 'You're not?' He then agreed to wait outside the shop and he brought me back to the cottage. It's the first time I've ever hitchhiked in my life."