Emma Thompson has reshared a story about a phone call she received years ago from President Donald Trump. While attending the Locarno film festival in Switzerland to receive the Leopard Club award, Thompson reportedly talked about the day around 1997,

US President asked Emma Thompson out in 1998, following her divorce from Kenneth Branagh. The celebrated actress recalled the strange moment during a talk at Locarno Film Festival, and joked that she could have “changed the course of American history.

Defensa Central has been able to confirm that this curious episode occurred at a delicate personal moment for Thompson. Her marriage to Kenneth Branagh, which began in 1989 after they met on the set of Fortunes of War, had ended six years later, after the actor's affair with Helena Bonham Carter.