Emma Thompson says she once got asked out by President Donald Trump. She said she’d get back to him, but never did.
The Oscar-winning British actress spoke about the experience on Friday, Aug 9. at the Locarno Film Festival.
Sharing the anecdote with a crowd in Locarno, Switzerland, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Thompson explained that she was filming the 1998 movie “Primary Colors” when he reached out to her. “I was in my trailer one day while we were making that movie, and the phone rang, and it was Donald Trump,” Thompson said. “I didn’t know the number of the phone. No one had rung me on it before, and I said, ‘Hello.’ ‘Hi, this is Donald Trump here,’ and I thought it was a joke. And then I said, ‘How can I help you?,’ thinking maybe he needed directions.”
Trump responded: “I’d love you to come and stay at one of my beautiful places. Maybe we could have dinner.”
Thompson said she told the future president: “Well, that’s very sweet. Thank you so much. I’ll get back to you.”
However, then she made a jarring realization about the timing of Trump’s call. “And then I realized that on that day, my divorce, my divorce decree, you know, the final papers of my divorce had come through,” Thompson recalled.
“And I thought I bet [Trump’s] got people looking for suitable people he could take out on his arm, you know, a nice divorcee. That’s what he was looking for, and he found the number in my trailer. I mean, that’s stalking!”
Thompson never got back to “The Apprentice” alum, but reflected on what could’ve happened had she said yes.
“But I could have gone on a date with Donald Trump, and then I would have a story to tell. I could have changed the course of American history,” she said.
At the time, Thompson’s divorce to British actor and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh had just been finalized. The pair married in 1989 and separated in 1995.
Thompson, 66, married her current husband Greg Wise in 2003. They met while filming the 1995 movie “Sense and Sensibility” together. They share two children together, Gaia Wise, who they welcomed in 1999, and Tindyebwa Agaba Wise, a Rwandan orphan and former child soldier who they adopted in 2003
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