Emma Thompson’s career has been dotted with moments of heroism, but a new revelation prompts speculation about the role she might have played in the life choices of Donald Trump. According to the two-time Academy Award winner,

Emma Thompson recently recalled an unexpected exchange she claims she had with Donald Trump. While speaking during a masterclass at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland on Friday, August 8, Thompson alleged that Trump once asked her on a date.

I could have changed the course of American history,” Thompson joked of the interaction, which coincided with her divorce from Kenneth Branagh