Joseph Fiennes opens to witness the death of women in a horrible riding accident

The appearance of Joseph Fiennes in a podcast with travel theme this week took a surprisingly gloomy turn when the actor of “Handmaid’s Tale” recalled having witnessed an accident on horseback while visiting Costa Rica.

In an interview with “Travel Secrets” that premiered on Tuesday, Fiennes explained how he comforted the victim of a “more unexpected and horrible accident” that left him incapable of sleeping for approximately one month.

“I love riding a horse and got on an early horse in the morning to go with a traveler who was staying in the hacienda,” Tanya Rose told Host. “She had just married, and I remember getting on the horse. He was warming a lot, entering the shadow, looking back, seeing this lovely woman kissing her husband.”

“And then the horse got up,” he continued, “and unfortunately he set the reins and the weight of the horse approached, and the whole horse landed on her and she fell back and really broke her head on the gravel and died.”

Fiennes did not identify the victim by name, nor offered details about when the accident could have taken place. Even so, he has come to see the moment as a reminder to remain present at the time.

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“In an instant, you remember that anything can happen,” he said. “She sustained her for a while, her poor husband was so shocked that she couldn’t understand or communicate. And she escaped.”

He also recalled a conversation that he and his late father, Mark Fiennes, had about how training nuances could affect the behavior of a horse.

“When I returned, my dad said: ‘You can never be completely sure how horses are trained.’ Maybe he saw a snake, I don’t know,” he said. “Maybe he was afraid of something. But it could be the way in which certain horses are trained, it can be beaten a bit in submission, they can be very temperamental, so you must be very careful.”

The accident, however, has not impacted the vision of Fiennes de Costa Rica as a travel destination. In another part of his “travel secrets” chat, the actor praised the Central American nation as “one of the most beautiful places I have been.”

“You can go to the Tropical jungle the same day you can go down and surf,” he said. “Some of the beaches are wild, authentic, beautiful, intact, remote, and that really speaks to me. It’s beautiful.”

Listen to the interview “Travel Secrets” by Joseph Fiennes here. His comments on his “more unexpected” travel experience begin around the 12:07 brand.