Thompson was also newly-divorced at the time, having split from her first husband Kenneth Branagh, and was living on a film set in Hollywood while working on a movie called Primary Colours. (Primary Colours, incidentally, is a political drama based on Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign – and Thompson played the Hillary Clinton role...)

“I was in my trailer, and it was on the Universal lot and I had just been divorced and my decree absolute had just come through, like, the day before, which was no big deal,” she explained.

“So the phone rings in my trailer, which it has never done before,” Thompson continued. “I look at it and it’s, like, weird. It’s like a moose has just entered my trailer.

“Anyway, so I lift up the phone. ‘Hi, it’s Donald Trump here.’”

Thompson, understandably, was a little taken aback. Trump had never called her before; they weren’t friends.

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