Actress Emma Thompson says Trump hit on her: 'I didn't know what to do with myself'

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March 24, 2017 4:26 PM

Actress Emma Thompson got the shock of her life when real-estate mogul Donald Trump called her trailer on a 1990s movie set.

Emma Thompson.

English actress Emma Thompson ("Love Actually," the live-action "Beauty and the Beast") told a shocking story while being interviewed by Swedish talk-show host Fredrik Skavlan on Thursday. President Donald Trump once asked out her on a date, she said.

"I was doing a film called 'Primary Colors' with John Travolta in Hollywood," the two-time Oscar winner said on the show. "I was in my trailer and I had just been divorced ... So the phone rings in my trailer, which it's never done before ... I lift up the phone: 'Hi. It's Donald Trump here.' I said, 'Really? What? Can I help you?'"

Thompson added that it was "like a moose has just entered my trailer" when the phone went off.

And with her best American accent, the actress recounted what Trump said to her, which began with the real-estate mogul offering to put her up in one of his Trump-branded towers.

"Why are you offering me somewhere to stay in my trailer?" Thompson recalled asking Trump.

"'Well, you know, I think we would get on very well, maybe we could have dinner some time,'" Trump said, according to Thompson.

"I didn't know what to do with myself," Thompson said. "I was on my own and I said, 'OK, well, I'll get back to you.'"

And then she hung up the phone.

Skavlan asked whether she had ever met Trump before that call.

"I'd never met him — I've never met him since," she said.

But she said she regretted not going out with him.

"I wish I had — think of the stories," she said.

Skavlan then said, "You could be the first lady."

The Washington Post pointed out that the call to Thompson was between May and August of 1997, when "Primary Colors" was shooting, and that Trump had announced his separation from his second wife, Marla Maples, in May of that year. The two would finalize their divorce in 1999.

Watch Thompson tell the story below:

Emma Thompson says Donald Trump asked her out on a date

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