Emma Thompson recently recalled an unexpected exchange she claims she had with Donald Trump.
While speaking during a masterclass on the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland on Friday, August 8, Thompson alleged that Trump once asked her on a date.
“A phone rang in my trailer, and it was Donald Trump. I assumed it was a joke. ‘Hi, it’s Donald Trump here,’” Thompson, 66, said. “I said, ‘How can I make it easier to?’ I assumed he needed directions. He said: ‘I’d love so that you can stay in considered one of my beautiful places, and possibly we could have dinner.”
She continued, “I spotted that on that very day my divorce has finally come through. I bet he has people looking throughout for suitable people he could take out, for all these nice divorcees — I mean, he found the variety of my trailer! That’s stalking! So yes, I could have gone on a date with Donald Trump. I could have modified the course of American history.”
Us Weekly has reached out to the White House for comment.
The story is one Thompson first shared publicly in 2017. While speaking on the Scandinavian TV show Skavlan, the Nanny McPhee star said the invite from Trump arrived while she was filming the 1998 movie Primary Colours in Los Angeles — a job that was modeled after Trump’s political rival, former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“I didn’t know what to do with myself,” she admitted on the time. “I just said, ‘OK, well, I’ll get back to you. Thanks a lot for ringing.”
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Thompson wasn’t the just one fresh out of a wedding when Trump’s phone call allegedly got here. The long run president had just divorced his second wife Marla Maples, and had yet to satisfy Melania Knauss (now Trump).
Thomas separated from ex-husband and actor-director Kenneth Branagh in 1995 after discovering he had engaged in several affairs.
“I used to be utterly, utterly blind to the proven fact that he had relationships with other women on set,” she told the Latest Yorker in 2022. “What I learned was how easy it’s to be blinded by your personal desire to deceive yourself.” Branagh notably had an affair with Helena Bonham Carter, who he directed in 1994’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
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“I used to be half alive. Any sense of being a lovable or worthy person had gone completely,” Thompson explained of discovering Branagh’s betrayal.
She went on to marry Greg Clever in 2003, whom she met in 1995 while filming Sense & Sensibility. “I’ve learned more from my second marriage just by being married,” Thompson told the outlet. “As my mother says, ‘The primary 20 years are the toughest.’”