Hilary Swank Recalls Getting Robbed While Living in Paris: ‘I Chased the Guy Down’ on the Freeway

The actress was in a taxi when the windows were smashed and robbers stole her purse, which had her passport in it, in 2013

Hilary Swank is opening up about a scary situation from her past.

Swank, 49, and her Ordinary Angels costar Alan Ritchson bonded with the ladies of The View on Thursday as they shared stories of their experiences being robbed — and how they attempted to stop the thieves.

After Ritchson, 41, recalled a date night with his wife that went awry as they witnessed a robbery and the actor chased the perpetrator down the street, Swank recalled her own experience chasing down a robber several years ago.

“I was living in Paris, I got robbed and I chased the guy down too,” the actress recalled. “I was like, ‘I’m gonna get my bag, I just need my passport. Give me my passport!’ ”

She was “chasing him down the side of the freeway because it was like a traffic jam,” she continued of the 2013 incident, which happened while she was riding in a taxi in the suburb of Saint-Denis, Sky News reported at the time.

Ritchson jumped in as his costar told the story, too, adding, “The craziest part is it wasn’t like somebody – she wasn’t like, ‘I think that guy’s doing something wrong.’ She was in the vehicle and the guy smashed her window out. And chased him.”

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Swank was in heeled boots while it happened, she said, and laughed as co-host Whoopi Goldberg joked, “You know how long it takes to get a passport?”

The Oscar winner said her passport at the time “was nice and thick and I’d added pages with all the places that I’d ever traveled. I was like, this is so meaningful.”

Despite “chasing the guy down,” it didn’t seem as though Swank was successful at recovering her bag — and her passport — as she cut the story short as the segment of The View wrapped up. She said she’d tell “the rest of the story” next time she was on the morning talk show.

In Ordinary Angels, Swank stars as Sharon Stevens, a "fierce but struggling hairdresser in small-town Kentucky who discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets Ed (Ritchson), a widower working hard to make ends meet for his two daughters," according to an official synopsis.

She starts out as a member of an alcoholism support group, but then cleans up her act to help the widower, whose 5-year-old is waiting for a liver transplant.

"What unfolds is the inspiring tale of faith, everyday miracles and ordinary angels,” the synopsis adds.

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At the New York City premiere on Monday, Ritchson and the film's director Jon Gunn both raved to PEOPLE about working with Swank, who Gunn called "an incredible actress."

"She manages to manifest all kinds of feelings so honestly, no matter what. But seeing her now as a mom, she's glowing," Gunn said.

Ritchson, meanwhile, joked, "I should probably just retire now that I've had Hilary Swank as a scene partner."

"You're only as good as the people that you're with in a scene. It doesn't matter how good you are. When you're working with somebody like her, the sky's the limit for what you can do together in a moment," he said. "Getting a taste of that was a treat."

The Lionsgate film also stars Tamala Jones, Amy Acker, Drew Powell, Skywalker Hughes and Emily Mitchell.

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Ordinary Angels premieres in theaters on Thursday.

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