Emma Thompson turned down date with Donald Trump on day of her divorce

In a parallel world, Dame Emma Thompson accepted the present US President Donald Trump’s alleged dinner date request, changing into the nation’s first woman.

Performing royalty Thompson, 66, has two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, a Primetime Emmy Award and 4 many years value of memorable on-screen moments that vary from Matilda to the brand new Brian Kirk flick, The Lifeless of Winter.

It was the latter that the Nanny McPhee favorite was selling on the Locarno Movie Competition in Switzerland, the place she dropped the bombshell that Trump, 79, requested her out the identical day she and ex-husband Kenneth Branagh, 64, settled their divorce

She claimed that she was engaged on the set of the 1998 dramedy Major Colors when the telephone rang, with the US president on the opposite line.

“Hey, that is Donald Trump,” she recalled him saying, as per The Telegraph.

“I believed it was a joke and requested, ‘How can I show you how to?’ Possibly he wanted instructions from somebody.

“Then he mentioned: ‘I’d love you to come back and keep at one in every of my lovely locations. Possibly we may have dinner’.”

Thompson advised revellers on the Swiss pageant that she advised Trump his supply was ‘very candy’ and that she would get again to him sooner or later.

She continued, claiming that her divorce from Branagh most likely had one thing to do with Trump’s presumed out-of-the-blue telephone name.

“I realised that on that day, my divorce decree had come by way of. And I wager he’s acquired individuals on the lookout for appropriate individuals he may take out on his arm. You realize, a pleasant divorcée, that’s what he was on the lookout for.

“And he discovered the quantity in my trailer. I imply, that’s stalking,” she joked earlier than voicing what she thought the proposed dinner date may’ve led to.

“I may have gone on a date with Donald Trump, after which I might have a narrative to inform. I may have modified the course of American historical past,” Thompson mentioned.

As an alternative of relationship Trump, the star went on to marry actor Greg Clever, whom she met on the set of the 1995 movie adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.

The pair share two youngsters: son Tindyebwa ‘Tindy’ Agaba, 37, whom she adopted in 2003, and daughter Gaia, 25, who was born in 1999.

In the meantime, Trump, who cut up from his second spouse, Marla Maples, 61, in 1997, tied the knot with Melania Trump, 55, in 2005.

The pair share son Barron Trump, 19, whom they welcomed in 2006.