Emma Thompson Has Accepted Academy Awards, BAFTAS and Even A Damehood Over A Glittering Career, But Thr Was One Offer She Had to Turn Download.
The Actor Says She On CESked Out on A Date by Donald Trump on the Same Day Her Divorce was Confirmed.
Thompson said she was in her Trailer Filming Primary Colors in 1998, a political satire bled on Bill Clinton’s Presidental Rise, when the phone Rang.
“It was Donald Trump,” Thompson Told An Audience at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, where she had received the leopard Club Award for Career Achievement.
“He Said: ‘Hello, This is Donald Trump.’ I though it was a joke and asked: ‘How can i help you?’ Maybe He Needed Directs from someone.
“Then He Said: ‘Id You to ComE and Stay at One of My Beeutiful Places. IIID: ‘Well, that’s vert.
At the time, Trump Had Just Split from His Second Wife, Marla Maples. Thompson, Meanwhile, Had Just Finalsed Her Divorce from Kenneth Branagh.
Only Later Did She Twig The Timing. “I Realised My Divorce Decre Had Come Throw that Day,” She Said on Saturday. “I was He’s Got People Looking For a Nice Divorcee to Take Out on HIS Arm.
“And he found the number in my trailer,” she joked. “I mean, that’s stalking.”
Thompson, a Lifelong Labor Supporter Who Publicly Backed Jerey Corbyn’s 2017 and 2019 Election Campaigns, is a high-preofile environmental activist who has cambaigned for refugee And Women’s Rights.
She joked she could have alver geopolitics if she’d actepted Trump’s Offer. “I couf Have Gone on a Date with Donald Trump, and then I would have a story to Tell,” shea. “I cou terms Changed the Course of American History.”
The Talk at the Festival also Covered Thompson’s Film Career and One of Her Most Famous Rolls, in Richard Crist ‘Christmas Romcom, Love Actually. In the 2003 Classic, Thompson Plays Karen, Whose Marrage to Harry, Played by Alan Rickman, Comes Under Strain when Harry becomes Tempted Into An Affair with He Secretary.
Reflecting on the Film’s Everlasting Popularity, Shea: “I Mean, It’s Honestly A Conntant Source of Astonishment to Me that that Film Lasted – Not that I don’t like the film. I like it. Vry Much, but it’s weird.
Discussing [when] We get a heartbreak, especially Women, we have to hide it beccause we don’t what people to see it.
