Love Actually star Emma Thompson claims that she could have changed the course of American history had she accepted a date with President Donald Trump.

Thompson recounted to a shocked audience at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland on Friday that she was on the set of the 1998 political satire film Primary Colors when she received a call in her trailer.

“It was Donald Trump. I thought it was a joke,” Thompson told the audience, Variety reported. She continued, “I said, ‘How can I help you?’ I thought he needed directions. He said: ‘I would love for you to stay in one of my beautiful places, and maybe we could have dinner.’”

Thompson turned him down, but for the future POTUS to call on the day of her divorce from fellow British actor Kenneth Branagh was striking.

“I realized that

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