Aimee Lou Wood says SNL apologized for ‘mean and unfunny’ White Lotus satire

The White Lotus actor Aimee Lou Wooden says that Saturday Evening Stay has apologized to her for a sketch that mocked her look, which she labelled as “imply and unfunny.”

The sketch — a satire of U.S. President Donald Trump, his household and members of his workers dubbed “White Potus” — featured Sarah Sherman enjoying a model of Wooden’s White Lotus character, Chelsea, as half a bit centred on U.S. Well being Secretary Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.

After Kennedy (performed by Jon Hamm) brings up the subject of eradicating fluoride from public consuming water — one thing the U.S. well being secretary has stated he plans to implement — he ponders what impression it may have on folks’s tooth.

The digital camera then cuts to Sherman as Chelsea, carrying outstanding false tooth with seen decay. “Fluoride?” she asks in exaggerated confusion. “What’s that?”

Over the weekend, Wooden spoke out on Instagram about her current interview with British GQ, wherein she shared her preliminary fear that she was too “ugly” for the hit HBO present.

In her posts, the British actor defined that these fears have been totally inner, and “no one at HBO known as [her] ugly.” She adopted that up with the admission that she discovered SNL‘s depiction of her as hurtful in distinction. 

Whereas HBO was “type and supportive,” she wrote, SNL was merely “imply.”

The difficulty she took with the SNL sketch, she stated, strengthened by means of screenshots of responses, was its resolution to skewer high-level public figures largely for his or her actions, however then single her out for her look.

“I’ve huge hole tooth, not dangerous tooth,” she wrote, whereas additionally criticizing Sherman’s try at a Mancunian accent. “I do not thoughts caricature … however the remainder of the skit was punching up, and I/Chelsea was the one one punched down on.”

In a flurry of subsequent posts, Wooden stated she acquired “hundreds” of messages of assist. She additionally stated she didn’t personally blame Sherman, and that SNL later supplied an apology.

One fan of the sketch was maybe stunning. Wooden’s co-star, Walton Goggins, who performs her onscreen beau, Rick, commented on SNL’s Instagram version of the skit, writing, “Hahahahahhahaha. Amazzzingggg.” He additionally shared it on his Instagram story — complimenting Hamm’s performing — earlier than deleting it.

‘Full-circle second’

Wooden was one of many major characters in Season 3 of The White Lotus, the most-watched season but of one in all HBO’s most-popular exhibits. She was additionally a fan favorite, along with her bubbly character and distinct look garnering each viewers consideration and op-eds round shifting magnificence requirements. 

It is a matter Wooden herself has spoken about. Final month, she took to Instagram to elucidate how accepting her smile and hole tooth was “liberating,” whereas she shared on The Jonathan Ross Show that followers’ celebration of her tooth was a “full-circle second” after having been bullied for them her complete life. 

There may be even an improvised line in The White Lotus from French Canadian actor Charlotte Le Bon (who portrayed Chloe) complimenting Wooden’s tooth, and a noticeable upswell of appreciation for the actor prepared to maintain her pure smile amid a sea of pretend tooth and veneers, according to the New York Times.

On the identical time, Wooden stated within the British GQ interview that always speaking about her look — and significantly, her tooth — might be exhausting. That is even true of the compliments she receives, she stated, because the dialog turns into about her tooth as an alternative of her work.

“They assume it is good as a result of they don’t seem to be criticizing,” GQ quotes her as saying. “And I’ve to go there.… If it was a person, would we be speaking about it this a lot? It is nonetheless occurring a few lady’s look.”