Emma Thompson’s daughter takes swipe at mom’s ex Kenneth Branagh decades after Helena Bonham Carter affair
NY Post
Kenneth Branagh is “just Ken,” at least to some people.
Gaia Wise, the daughter of Emma Thompson, took a public swipe at her mother’s ex-husband 30 years after his affair with actress Helena Bonham Carter.
She posted a cheeky meme from July 2023 to her Instagram story on Monday, quoting the iconic song from the “Barbie” movie and poking fun at Branagh.
“She’s everything. He’s just Ken,” the meme read with a picture of Thompson as Beatrice and Branagh as Benedick from the 1993 adaptation of “Much Ado About Nothing.”
The post was a cheeky dig at Branagh’s past behavior toward her mother, including his extramarital affair with Bonham Carter, 58.
The actress and Branagh met on the set of the 1987 miniseries “Fortunes of War” and married in 1989. Their relationship ended amid Branagh’s affair with Bonham Carter.
