Emma Thompson has enlisted her 20-year-old daughter to help her care for her ailing mother during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Nanny McPhee star’s 88-year-old mum, actress Phyllida Law, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease five years ago and has been shielding with her daughter and granddaughter Gaia in Argyll, Scotland.
Emma and her offspring are splitting their duties – with the 61-year-old serving as primary carer and Gaia doing all of the cooking. “It’s a bit like living in a cross between a care home and a gastropub,” she told Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper. “Mum is quite lame so it’s a case of taking her out in a wheelchair, and making sure she takes her medication.