Emma Thompson made a bold claim about Donald Trump asking her out on a date the same day she got divorced.

On Friday, August 8, the Sense and Sensibility actress, 66, spoke at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, where she was honored with the Leopard Club Award. Thompson recalled how the POTUS asked her out the same day she finalized her divorce from Kenneth Branagh .

As she recounted, Thompson was in a trailer on the set of the 1998 film Primary Colors when she answered a phone call. It was none other than the business mogul, 79, who simply said, according to the actress, “Hello, this is Donald Trump.”

“I thought it was a joke and asked, ‘How can I help you?’ Maybe he needed directions from someone,” she explained, per The Telegraph . “Then he said: ‘I’d love you t

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