US EditionTrump asked me out the day I got divorced, says Emma Thompson
SWITZERLAND, AUG 10 – Emma Thompson revealed Donald Trump called her on the day her divorce finalized in 1998, inviting her to dinner, which she declined, joking it could have changed American history.
- On August 8, 2024, at a masterclass during the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, Emma Thompson revealed that Donald Trump once asked her on a date in 1998.
- Thompson revealed that the request was made to her during the production of Primary Colors in 1998, shortly after her 1995 divorce from Kenneth Branagh was finalized.
- She recounted receiving a phone call from Trump inviting her to stay at one of his properties and possibly have dinner, which she never accepted, noting the coincidence of her divorce decree arriving that day.
- Thompson joked that if she had dated Donald Trump, she would have an interesting story to share, and she received the Leopard Club Award for lifetime achievement at the festival.
- This anecdote highlights a notable intersection of Thompson's personal life and professional recognition while raising reflections on how events might have altered her narrative.
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The same day that Emma Thompson received confirmation of her divorce proceedings, she also received the appeal of a certain Donald Trump.
The British actress and director believes that the current president of the United States was looking for "a nice divorced woman" after her breakup with Marla Maples.
In 1998, during the filming of Primary Colors, Emma Thompson (London, 66) received an unexpected call in her dressing room that she still remembers today. “It was Donald Trump,” the actress said last August 9, during a talk at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland, where she has been awarded for her career. “She said, ‘Hi, I’m Donald Trump.’ I thought it was a joke and asked her, ‘What can I help you with?’ Then she said, ‘I would love you to…
Hollywood actress claims Trump asked her out following her divorce · American Wire News
Actress Emma Thompson made a nearly three-decade claim about President Donald Trump while speaking to film festival attendees in Switzerland. The 66-year-old “Nanny McPhee” star joked that she could have “changed the course of American history” if she had accepted when Trump allegedly asked her out decades ago. While speaking at the Locarno Film Festival last week, Thompson told the audience during a Q&A session about the call she got from Trump…
If someone thinks he knows everything about Donald Trump’s peculiar personality, there is always a new detail that helps complete the portrait of the character. And the new is extremely striking. It has been revealed by actress Emma Thompson and has to do with that moment when she had just divorced the same actor Kenneth Branagh and there appeared the current president of the United States. During his intervention at the Locarno Film Festival in…
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