Aimee Lou Wood has taken a firm stand regarding her critique of Saturday Night Live and its representation of her in a recent sketch related to “White Lotus.”
In a sketch that aired in April, SNL cast member Sarah Sherman portrayed Wood’s character Chelsea with an exaggerated accent and oversized false teeth, using it as a punchline for a joke involving fluoride. Wood responded promptly via Instagram, expressing that the depiction came off as “mean and unfunny.”
Wood articulated her feelings clearly at the time: “Yes, take the piss for sure — that’s what the show is about — but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?” Sherman’s reaction involved sending flowers to Wood, stating she “obviously never meant to hurt anyone’s feelings” and expressed her remorse for any pain caused.
In a recent interview with BBC News, Wood reiterated her stance, revealing that she has no regrets about voicing her concerns. “I don’t regret saying it because it was breaking a pattern, which is what I would usually do — what I did when I was younger and got bullied,” Wood explained.
Reflecting on her initial reaction to the sketch, Wood said she realized, “I have a choice here to go in and be embarrassed about it and just say, ‘I didn’t like that. It was mean.’ … Regardless of the chaos that ensued, I’m proud of my personal journey in having spoken up.”
Wood also shared her emotional struggles during prior meetings with directors, where she admitted to “bursting into tears and being unable to express myself.”
She emphasized a common tendency to apologize unnecessarily, saying, “I think that kind of urge is always to correct, to say ‘I’m so sorry that I just did something messy’ when in fact you didn’t do anything wrong.”
In a profile for Variety alongside her co-star Walton Goggins published in June, Wood elaborated on the SNL controversy, emphasizing: “I know for a fact a man wrote that sketch. It wasn’t Sarah Sherman, so don’t direct your anger at her.”
Wood expressed particular frustration with the nature of the joke, stating, “The punch line should not be about how I look. That’s what bothered me. They can do the caricature—because that’s what ‘SNL’ is. But it felt misogynistic. It felt like the punchline was centered around a woman’s appearance, which is simply not funny. It’s not acceptable.”
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