4 days Ago By Alistair McGeorge
Aimee Lou Wood says SNL has apologised over a ‘mean’ skit over the weekend (Picture: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO)Aimee Lou Wood has blasted Saturday Night Live over a recent skit poking fun at her appearance.The White Lotus actress has branded the sketch – which featured SNL performer Sarah Sherman wearing oversized prosthetic teeth while doing an impression of the 31-year-old star – as ‘mean and unfunny’.In a series of posts on her Instagram Story, Aimee cleared up a situation with TV studio HBO and insisted they have been ‘nothing but supportive’ of her.
However, she said: ‘But whilst in honest mode, I did find the SNL thing mean and unfunny.’She continued: ‘Such a shame cos’ I had such a great time watching it a couple of weeks ago. Yes, take the p**s for sure — that’s what the show is about.
But there must be a cleverer, more nuanced and less cheap way?The so-called White Potus sketch over the weekend featured Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson), Melania Trump (Chloe Fineman) and others alongside Aimee’s White Lotus castmate Jon Hamm as Robert F. Kennedy Jr in the style of Walton Goggins’ Rick character.The White Lotus star hit out at the skit, which made fun of her teeth (Picture: Aimee Lou Wood/Instagram)She said SNL has apologised (Picture: Aimee Lou Wood/Instagram)Jon, as RFK Jr.
, asked: ‘I’ve been having these insane ideas, like what if we took all the fluoride out of the drinking water? What would that do to people’s teeth?’Sarah showed a huge set of teeth, and replied: ‘Fluoride? What’s that?’Fans have rallied behind Aimee – which has made her ‘glad [she] said something’ rather than staying quiet – and one follower pointed out that ‘everyone else in that parody was a political figure’.‘Correct,’ Aimee reposted, while someone else criticised Sarah’s ‘terrible’ attempt at a Mancunian accent.The Sex Education star agreed: ‘At least get the accent right, seriously.
I respect accuracy even if it’s mean.’She has since claimed: ‘I’ve had apologies from SNL’.{"@context":"https://schema.
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classList.add('metro-video-player--related-videos-loaded');});Aimee also pointed out that being made fun of in a ‘clever’ way ‘in good spirits’ is fine, but the SNL skit didn’t feel that way.She wrote: ‘I am not thin skinned.
I actually love being taken the p**s out of when it’s clever and in good spirits. But the joke was about fluoride. I have big gap teeth not bad teeth.
‘I don’t mind caricature – I understand that’s what SNL is. But the rest of the skit was punching up and I/Chelsea was the only one punched down on.’She also clarified she wasn’t ‘hating on’ Sarah for doing the skit, but rather ‘hating on the concept’.
And in a final post on the matter, she shared a comment from a fan who said ‘it was a sharp and funny skit until it suddenly took a screeching turn into 1970’s misogyny’, while she replied: ‘This sums up my view.’The skit parodied Aimee and her character Chelsea (Picture: HBO)In a recent interview with GQ, Aimee admitted she felt insecure when she heard that White Lotus showrunner Mike White had to ‘fight’ to cast her.‘I just spiraled about it because of my own imposter syndrome.
That was my point,’ she clarified on Instagram. ‘Just really wanted to clear that up because hbo have been nothing but super supportive.’Meanwhile, in the GQ interview she also opened up about the interest in her teeth, noting while she’s ‘really happy that it’s symbolising rebellion and freedom’, there is a line.
‘The whole conversation is just about my teeth, and it makes me a bit sad because I’m not getting to talk about my work. They think it’s nice because they’re not criticising,’ she said.‘And, I have to go there.
.. I don’t know if it was a man would we be talking about it this much? It’s still going on about a woman’s appearance.
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