‘White Lotus’ star Aimee Lou Wood slams ‘mean’ ‘SNL’ parody

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White lotus Star Aimee Lou Wood says Saturday Night Live His appearance after the sketch was posted after the sketch.

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In the title White POTUSlate night show tricked the popular HBO drama into a parody, the trick reimagined various members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle as three characters of each season are on vacation at a Thai resort.

Among other guest appearances, Scarlett Johansson returns to Ivanka Trump and former actor Beck Bennett returns to shirtless Vladimir Putin. Previous co-star Alex Moffat also made a cameo with Mikey Day’s Donald Eric Trump Jr.

James Austin Johnson’s Trump debuted on Jason Isaacs after appearing in the cold open White lotus Character Timothy swallows dry McDonald’s pie and considers the financial collapse caused by the president’s global tariffs.

Recasting Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. SNL Host Jon Hamm shouted to remove fluoride from drinking water. “How will this affect people’s teeth,” he wondered wildly.

Wood’s White lotus The character Chelsea then showed up like the teeth played by Sarah Sherman and said, “Fluoride, what is that? Oh look, monkey!”

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However, Wood is not a fan of Sherman’s dispatch, who brought her Instagram story to criticize the show because her teeth made fun of it.

Write her in one “The honest model,” said the 31-year-old British actress, who found SNL Things are mean and strange. ”

When a follower observes that “everybody else in that parody is a politician who is ridiculed” and the skit “apparently just gets rid of your appearance,” Wood replied, “right.”

The wood also solved the guesswork, low hit means interview British GQ She admits that the producer initially hesitated to throw her into the dark comedy “because I’m ugly.”

“I was told (creator Mike White) to fight for me. They said, ‘Whatever HBO says, it has to be you. Honestly, it’s from the best place, but my little head went: “HBO doesn’t want me,” she told The Outlet recently. “And I know why HBO doesn’t want me, it’s because I’m ugly. Mike has to say ‘Please let me have ugly girls!'”

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She’s elsewhere GQ Wood said the chat around the teeth was exhaustive.

“The whole conversation was about my teeth, which made me a little sad because I wasn’t talking about my work,” she told the magazine.

this Sex Education “No one in HBO calls me ugly,” the alumni clarified on Instagram.

She added: “I clearly say that it was my own paranoid thought…”

On another slide, Wood shared a lot White lotus Fans reached out to thank her for her mocking at Sherman. “I have thousands of messages that are consistent with me…so I’m glad I’m saying something instead of talking myself,” she wrote.

In other posts, Wood mocked Sherman’s parody, saying, “At least, I respect accuracy, even if it’s mean.”

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But despite calling the short “meaning and uncomfortable,” Wood said she didn’t have any grudges towards the comedian.

“It’s not @Sarahsquim’s fault,” Wood wrote in her Instagram story. “Don’t hate her, hate the concept.”

Wood also said she didn’t want the audience to think she was “slimming skin” and couldn’t joke.

“My skin is not thin,” she wrote. “In fact, I like to be peeing when it’s smart and mentally happy. But the joke is about fluoride. I have big teeth and not big teeth. I don’t mind comics – I know what that is SNL yes. But the rest of the shorts were slamming and I/Chelsea were the only ones who punched the holes. ”

Later, Wood revealed that in a rare move, the show reached out to express regret that it chose to tease her appearance.

“I want SNL,” she wrote a selfie in which she applied a big lip filter to end the drama.

mdaniell@postmedia.com

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