Matt Dillon caught up in subway stand-off

Matt Dillon found himself staring down the barrel of a cop's gun when he was mistaken for a knife-wielding criminal while riding the subway in New York recently.

The Crash star decided to take the C-train to Soho one Friday night and found himself the suspect in a knife attack.

He recalls: "A couple of guys were drinking, and there was this other guy who looked a little manic and clearly was not all there. So I thought to myself: 'I'm gonna try and avoid this guy's line of vision.'

"At 42nd Street, the train gets detained and an undercover detective drew his gun on me… It turned out that a guy with a knife had run onto the train. One cop thought it was me.

"Then they spotted the guy - it was the guy who was sitting across from me."