{"id":59097,"date":"2025-08-10T12:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/59097\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:25:05","slug":"big-name-actor-says-donald-trump-asked-her-out-on-day-her-divorce-was-finalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/59097\/","title":{"rendered":"Big-Name Actor Says Donald Trump Asked Her Out On Day Her Divorce Was Finalized"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-time Oscar-winner Emma Thompson<\/a> wasn\u2019t feeling anything near love actually when Donald Trump<\/a> asked her out to dinner back in the day.<\/p>\n

The \u201cHowards End\u201d star said Saturday at the Locarno Film Festival that the future two-time president called her in her trailer while she was filming the 1998 political movie \u201cPrimary Colors.\u201d It was also the day her divorce from actor Kenneth Branagh was finalized.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018Hello, this is Donald Trump.\u2019 I thought it was a joke and asked: \u2018How can I help you?\u2019 Maybe he needed directions from someone. Then he said: \u2018I\u2019d love you to come and stay at one of my beautiful places. Maybe we could have dinner,\u2019\u201d she told the audience, per the Telegraph<\/a>. \u201cI said: \u2018Well, that\u2019s very sweet. Thank you so much. I\u2019ll get back to you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Thompson, who received a career award and premiered her latest movie at the festival, \u201cThe Dead of Winter,\u201d concluded Trump was \u201cstalking\u201d her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized that on that day, my divorce, my divorce decree, you know, the final papers of my divorce had come through,\u201d she said, per The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. \u201cAnd I thought, I bet he\u2019s got people looking for suitable people he could take out on his arm, you know, a nice divorcee. That\u2019s what he was looking for, and he found the number in my trailer. I mean, that\u2019s stalking!\u201d<\/p>\n

While she may have shown sense and sensibility in rejecting Trump, who\u2019s had a troubling<\/a> history<\/a> with women<\/a>, she comically saw a lost opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could have gone on a date with Donald Trump, and then I would have a story to tell,\u201d she said, per THR. \u201cI could have changed the course of American history.\u201d<\/p>\n

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