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\n\tDonald Trump asked Emma Thompson on a date.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cA phone rang in my trailer, and it was Donald Trump. I thought it was a joke. I said: \u2018How can I help you\u2019? I thought he needed direction. He said: \u2018I would love for you to stay in one of my beautiful places, and we could have dinner.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tShe added: \u201cI realized that on that very day my divorce has finally come through. I bet he has people looking all over for nice divorcees \u2013 I mean, he found the number of my trailer! That\u2019s stalking! So yes, I could have gone on a date with Donald Trump. I could have changed the course of American history!\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThompson was never afraid of some political humor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI did jokes about Margaret Thatcher \u2013 and herpes, you know? It\u2019s the simplest thing you can get from unprotected sex. I said that Thatcher and herpes were both very difficult to get rid of. It still stands to this day,\u201d she said, recalling her early days as a comedian.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cLater, I wrote a series of comedy sketches and one of them was about a Victorian woman coming to see her mother. Her husband appears to have a \u2018small creature\u2019 attached to her body. She\u2019s talking about his penis, of course, and it\u2019s about sexual ignorance, but it\u2019s funny. The producer of \u2018Sense and Sensibility\u2019 saw that and thought: \u2018This woman can adapt Jane Austen!\u2019 That\u2019s so weird.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAt first, she didn\u2019t want to be an actor at all, she admitted. \u201cIt seemed like a precarious job. A hospital administrator came to our school once, and I thought it was a nice job. Mostly because she had nice shoes.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\tBut acclaimed roles in \u201cHowards End,\u201d \u201cThe Remains of the Day\u201d soon followed. For the latter, she was inspired by her grandmother and \u201cintergenerational trauma.\u201d \u201cIt really informed [the performance of] Miss Kenton. \u201cMy grandmother was never really happy and fulfilled.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHollywood took notice as well. \u201cIf you remember the Monica Lewinsky scandal, poor Monica, that happened when we were making \u2018Primary Colors\u2019. We sat down, thinking: \u2018What are we going to do?\u2019 We are making a film about something that\u2019s happening at the same time. It seems like such a long time ago. Oh, if only we could have a nice sex scandal and none of THIS, please.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThompson also picked up the Leopard Club Award at the fest. \u201cI nearly had an aneurism \u2013 I was so astonished and so happy,\u201d she said, recalling an especially crowded screening of Brian Kirk\u2019s \u201cDead of Winter\u201d.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cMost of the women I know are incredibly heroic. And the fact that [this character] was old and grieving, I haven\u2019t seen it before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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