Oh, what could have been.
Emma Thompson sort of regrets not accepting Donald Trump’s request for a date back in 1997. “I could’ve changed the course of history,” she joked on a recent outing to “The Graham Norton Show”.
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Thompson, now 58, recalled receiving a phone call to her trailer landline while filming “Primary Colors”. “It rang one day and I picked it up and it was Donald Trump,” Thompson said. “Donald Trump — Donald Trump! — was on the other end of the phone going, ‘Hi, it’s Donald Trump here,’ and I thought someone was having a laugh. So I said, ‘Oh f**k off.’”
After being convinced it was truly the future U.S. President on the other side of the line, Trump supposedly invited Thompson to stay in one of his apartments and dine with him. “I just didn’t know what to say. I was just absolutely astounded because how did he get my number?” Thompson asked. “I mean, a number that I didn’t have.”
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“If I had gone out with him for dinner, I could have done that,” she said, as she went to tousle fellow guest Adam Sandler’s hair. “Then we would all have known the truth [about his hair],” she added. “Then maybe he wouldn’t have been president.”
Other stars featured on the new episode of “The Graham Norton Show” were Claire Foy and Cara Delevingne.