The “Sense and Sensibility” star says President Donald Trump called her to ask her out on a date, while she was on the set of the 1998 film “Primary Colors.” Speaking to an audience at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland on Saturday, Thompson said the then-real estate magnate called her on the day her divorce from Branagh was finalized.

Emma Thompson’s career has been dotted with moments of heroism, but a new revelation prompts speculation about the role she might have played in the life choices of Donald Trump. According to the two-time Academy Award winner,