(CNN) — Emma Thompson has reshared a story about a phone call she received years ago from President Donald Trump.

While attending the Locarno film festival in Switzerland to receive the Leopard Club award, Thompson reportedly talked about the day around 1997, when she says a then-private citizen Trump asked her out on a date.

Thompson said she was filming the movie “Primary Colors” at the time, a film based on the novel by Joe Klein which fictionalized the rise of President Bill Clinton. The phone in her on-set trailer rang, she recalled, and “it was Donald Trump.”

“I thought it was a joke and asked: ‘How can I help you?’ Maybe he needed directions from someone,” Thompson told the crowd.

“Then he said: ‘I’d love you to come and stay at one of my beautiful places. Maybe we could have

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