Mariana van Zeller

They didn't want to call it a coup.

They didn't want to take, get us out of there.

Their hands were sort of tight.

That's how they told us.

And we started seeing slowly as the day started passing and the situation was deteriorating.

We started seeing, you know, the French were sending planes to take out all the French nationals, the British, the Portuguese, which is where

I'm a double nationality where I'm from.

And I'm on the phone with the ambassador for Portugal telling me, there's a plane for you.

There's like seats for you in the capital.

But the capital is eight hours away or 12 hours away by land.

And we can't go because it's too dangerous.

No airplanes would take us there.

And eventually we realized that the only way that we'd be able to get out is if we took matters into our own hands.

So actually my team in L.A.

found an evacuation company willing to fly a plane in the middle of the night to get us out.

Oh.

It was actually Argo.

Have you watched the movie Argo with Ben Affleck about the guys in Iran?

Oh, yeah.

I did watch that.