The British star also discussed her days doing stand-up to “get rid of herpes and Margaret Thatcher” during a Locarno Film Festival talk after receiving an award and world-premiering 'Dead of Winter.’

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,

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