Article: Hollywood star takes the hitchhiker's guide to find literary festival ; Hollywood star Kathleen Turner has told of her dismay after she failed to convince a cynical driver that she was 'THE' Kathleen Turner as she hitched a lift to the Hay-on-Wye festival.

Hollywood star Kathleen Turner has told of her dismay after she failed to convince a cynical driver that she was 'THE' Kathleen Turner as she hitched a lift to the Hay-on-Wye festival.

The glamorous actress, famous for her role in such films as Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, decided to hitchhike to the festival where she was making a guest appearance.

Turner was travelling in Wales with daughter Rachel and the pair were hungry for breakfast but had no mobile phone on them.

She said she was standing at the side of the road in the pouring rain when she managed to flag down a passing motorist - in what was her first hitchhiking experience.

Speaking of the encounter with the ...

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