Aimee Lou Wood says SNL apologised to her after airing its “mean and unfunny” spoof of her.
The cast of Saturday Night Live enacted a parody of The White Lotus titled “The White Potus”. During the five-minute sketch, cast member Sarah Sherman portrayed Wood’s character, Chelsea, fit with her thick Manchester accent and a noticeable gap between her teeth.
Elsewhere in the sketch, episode guest star Jon Hamm took on an RFK Jr.-inspired Rick Hatchett (originally played by Walton Goggins). In the MAGA-style parody, Rick held a syringe of measles, decided whether to remove fluoride from the drinking water, and considered eating a monkey.
Wood clarified comments she recently made to GQ Hype about director Mike White going back and forth with HBO to cast the star in the series. She said in the interview, “It was honestly from the nicest place, but my little head goes: ‘HBO didn’t want me. And I know why HBO didn’t want me, it’s because I’m ugly.’Mike had to say, ‘Please let me have the ugly girl!’”
She told her Instagram followers about her quote from the interview, as well as her thoughts on the SNL sketch. “Nobody at HBO called me ugly!! I just spiraled about it because of my own imposter syndrome,” she said. “But whilst in honest mode, I did find the SNL thing mean and unfunny xo.
“Felt righteous, might delete later.”
Later, Wood wrote that she is “not thin skinned”. She continued, “I actually love being taken the p*** out of when it’s clever in good spirits. But the joke was about fluoride. I have big gap teeth not bad teeth.
“I don’t mind caricature,” the actress continued. “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 … Not Sarah Squirm’s fault and not hating on her. Hating on the concept.”
The Sex Education star later revealed on the site that SNL offered an apology.
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