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Actor Chevy Chase revealed in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on reddit Monday that he once believed comedian Dan Aykroyd was jailed in Morocco during the filming of "Spies Like Us."

Chase said they were shooting the 1985 film in a small town in the Sahara desert that was also a base for some of the fighting between the Moroccan army and others. He and his co-star Aykroyd drove a Jeep into the desert to the set and one day as they were heading home, they spotted some Moroccan troops.

"Danny said, 'Hey look! Some Moroccan troops!' and took a camera out and took a photo and they SAW him - and they immediately jumped into the back of their truck and started chasing us," Chase said.

The duo hid out in the Volkwagen van to evade the armed soldiers

The next day, Chase said he showed up to the set only to be told by the film's director that Aykroyd had been thrown in a Marrakech prison and he would likely be jailed, too. As Chase worried about his own fate, Aykroyd showed up to the set and had a big laugh at the prank.

"Nothing came of it - he had just scared me," Chase said. "But I thought the soldiers got him and put him in jail!"

Read the full reddit AMA here.