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“So Cruel”: White Lotus’ Star Aimee Lou Wood Claps Back At SNL For Making A Mockery Of Her
Aimee Lou Wood was not impressed by Saturday Night Live’s parody of her in a recent sketch.
The April 12 episode of the long-running comedy show featured a sketch called White Potus, a satirical sketch parodying HBO’s The White Lotus by reimagining it with prominent political figures.
Scarlett Johansson also made a cameo in the sketch, reviving her portrayal of Ivanka Trump.
Highlights
- Aimee Lou Wood slammed Saturday Night Live’s recent sketch called 'White Potus.'
- SNL cast member Sarah Sherman played the spoofed version of Aimee’s 'The White Lotus' character Chelsea.
- “I/Chelsea was the only one punched down on,” the English actress said.
- Aimee told her audience that she eventually “received apologies” from SNL.
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Aimee Lou Wood refused to laugh at Saturday Night Live’s recent sketch, White Potus
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The satirical smackdown targeted a number of political figures before including a portrayal of Aimee’s White Lotus character, Chelsea, played by SNL cast member Sarah Sherman.
“I did find the SNL thing mean and unfunny,” she wrote in her Instagram Stories.
“Such a shame cuz I had such a great time watching it a couple weeks ago,” she added.
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In the sketch, the parodied Chelsea appeared in a short scene with Jon Hamm’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was dressed like Rick, Chelsea’s boyfriend in The White Lotus.
“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?” said the spoofed RFK.
That’s when Sarah’s Chelsea appeared, sporting big false teeth and an exaggerated accent.
“Fluoride? What’s that?” she asked.
SNL cast member Sarah Sherman played the spoofed version of Aimee’s The White Lotus character, Chelsea
Image credits: Saturday Night Live
After the episode aired, Aimee said she was “not thin-skinned” and understood that SNL was all about “caricature.”
“But the whole joke was about fluoride,” she wrote in one Instagram Story.
“I have big gap teeth, not bad teeth,” she said.
“The rest of the skit was punching up,” she added, “and I/Chelsea was the only one punched down on.”
Image credits: aimeelouwood
The Sex Education star believed the script could have been “less cheap.”
“Yes, take the p*ss for sure — that’s what the show is about — but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?” she wrote.
“I/Chelsea was the only one punched down on,” the English actress wrote in an Instagram Story
Image credits: Saturday Night Live
Aimee wanted to make it clear that she wasn’t “hating on” Sarah for playing the spoofed version of her character but was “hating on the concept.”
However, she did have some criticism for Sarah’s accent in the sketch.
Image credits: aimeelouwood
“At least get the accent right, seriously,” she said. “I respect accuracy even if it’s mean.”
The English actress said she “received apologies” from SNL but did not disclose names or specifics about it.
Scarlett Johansson and Lizzo also appeared in the sketch that Aimee criticized online
Image credits: aimeelouwood
In addition to Scarlett Johansson’s cameo, the White Potus sketch also featured notable stars like former SNL cast member Beck Bennett as Vladimir Putin, Chloe Fineman as Melania Trump, and Marcello Hernández as Marco Rubio.
Lizzo, who appeared as the musical guest during the episode, played The White Lotus character Natasha Rothwell in the sketch.
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A number of netizens sided with Aimee after her social media tirade, with one saying, “Americans just want her to feel bad about her looks.”
“People are so cruel; I think she’s a doll,” one fan said, while another wrote, “It’s just bullying.”
“There is absolutely nothing funny about SNL anymore,” another wrote.
Netizens had mixed reactions to Aimee’s tirade
Image credits: aimeelouwood
Others found it “hilarious,” saying, “She has [a] unique look, and they captured it.”
“Take the win and move on,” one said.
Another wrote, “I liked her better when she wasn’t whiny!”
Landing a role in The White Lotus, alongside co-stars Patrick Schwarzenegger, Leslie Bibb, Parker Posey, and Carrie Coon, was her breakthrough into American Hollywood.
“These people live in Hollywood,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “I live in my little flat in South East London, and I’m so British in my sensibility that I wasn’t sure how to handle being around so many people who are so front-footed and confident.”
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She said it felt “rebellious” to defy Hollywood’s beauty standards and embrace her look.
“All I ever do is take the p*ss out of myself. Even the way [White Lotus fans] are talking about me and my teeth — that I don’t have veneers or Botox — it feels a bit rebellious,” she continued.
When she was younger, she used to wonder whether she would land roles because she wasn’t “conventional-looking enough.”
“It’s completely in my head. It’s a myth I’ve told myself,” she told a Stylist in 2020. “I had it in my brain that I’m not conventional-looking enough, and that’s a mental barrier I’ve had to overcome.”
The actress was praised for her portrayal of Chelsea, the girlfriend of Rick, played by Walton Goggins
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Aimee has received much acclaim for her portrayal of Chelsea in season 3 of The White Lotus.
Her character’s relationship with Rick, played by her co-star Walton Goggins, has also been widely discussed since the release of Season 3.
Image credits: Saturday Night Live
Aimee highlighted the role of intimacy coordinators in ensuring that the intimate scenes between the seemingly mismatched couple, with a 22-year age gap, were convincing.
“I love intimacy coordinators, and I think they’re absolutely essential,” Aimee told Elle and explained that she and Walton “designed” their intimate scene together.
“We were like, ‘This is what we think should happen. This is why we think it’s important.’ Because we don’t see a lot of tenderness from Rick to Chelsea the rest of the time,” the actress added.
“Being parodied by SNL is still a milestone, I’d think,” a social media user said
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Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
If only Americans cared as much about democracy, freedom, and equality as they do about guns and perfect teeth
LakotaWolf (she/her) 7 months ago
SNL has been around longer than this actress has been alive. People have used mockery and teasing about physical features/looks in humor/improv for probably as long as we've been recognizable as "humans". When you're a public figure (be it actor, politician, member of royalty, famous athlete, etc.) someone's going to make fun of how you look, how you talk, how you dress, and so on. Does that make it right or okay? I don't know. I'm just one person who also hasn't even been alive for as long as SNL has been on TV.
Catherine Chance 7 months ago
Except of course SNL used to be funny, now it just is not funny and we all know that SNL does not mock everyone, far from it, not mentioning any names of groups but they have their "Holy Cows" , I don't disagree that they can say what they like, I believe in freedom of expression, but it is another example of how the virtue signalling elite never fail to disappoint when it comes to exposing their own hypocrisy!
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Ben Stubbs 7 months ago
Aimee Lou is beautiful. Yet another reason we don't want SNL in the UK. Terrible, unfunny, un-unique and basically a droll attempt at humour. In the Royal Navy, we performed these sort of skits (when allowed) as a "Sods Opera" back then, we thought of it as the height of wit, but basically it was just an excuse to take the mickey out of an officer
sofacushionfort 7 months ago
Sad that SNL made fun of her. Glad Spitting Image was canceled before her career took off
Invisible Potato 7 months ago
she would not survive a little britain intro, not even whole episode.... they are actors, they are public, they need to have thicker skin and not to cry that someone mocked them...
Catherine Chance 7 months ago
Really why? Don't you enjoy films, shows on Netflix, BBC, HBO etc, why should actors and actresses who are doing a job and doing it well be mocked and ridiculed, when half the world is screaming cancellation and jail time for anyone who is not complying with the latest internet trend of victimhood? The point is sneering at a grown woman because of her teeth is not even worthy of a child's scorn, if it was because she was bad at her job or committed a crime then maybe I would agree with you, but all she has done is dare to be herself and made a success of her life.
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Binky Melnik 7 months ago
“SNL” hasn’t been funny since Sandler and Schneider left. Sure, there’ll be one or two maybe-kinda good sketches (the music videos have been pretty reliably excellent), but I’ve tried repeatedly to watch it for the last 25-30 years, and it just sucks so hard I can’t understand why it’s still on the air. I gather there are people who watch it? I just find it painfully unfunny. And this girl has buck teeth/overbite, which fluoride won’t help with, so it just demonstrates to me that the show continues to sυck.
Winnie the Moo 7 months ago
And then again, if she’s insecure about her teeth, there’s this thing called braces. Personally I feel like if she fixed her teeth, it would be Jennifer Grey’s nose all over again… I like her teeth, makes her stand out.
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
If only Americans cared as much about democracy, freedom, and equality as they do about guns and perfect teeth
LakotaWolf (she/her) 7 months ago
SNL has been around longer than this actress has been alive. People have used mockery and teasing about physical features/looks in humor/improv for probably as long as we've been recognizable as "humans". When you're a public figure (be it actor, politician, member of royalty, famous athlete, etc.) someone's going to make fun of how you look, how you talk, how you dress, and so on. Does that make it right or okay? I don't know. I'm just one person who also hasn't even been alive for as long as SNL has been on TV.
Catherine Chance 7 months ago
Except of course SNL used to be funny, now it just is not funny and we all know that SNL does not mock everyone, far from it, not mentioning any names of groups but they have their "Holy Cows" , I don't disagree that they can say what they like, I believe in freedom of expression, but it is another example of how the virtue signalling elite never fail to disappoint when it comes to exposing their own hypocrisy!
Load More Replies... Ben Stubbs 7 months ago
Aimee Lou is beautiful. Yet another reason we don't want SNL in the UK. Terrible, unfunny, un-unique and basically a droll attempt at humour. In the Royal Navy, we performed these sort of skits (when allowed) as a "Sods Opera" back then, we thought of it as the height of wit, but basically it was just an excuse to take the mickey out of an officer
sofacushionfort 7 months ago
Sad that SNL made fun of her. Glad Spitting Image was canceled before her career took off
Invisible Potato 7 months ago
she would not survive a little britain intro, not even whole episode.... they are actors, they are public, they need to have thicker skin and not to cry that someone mocked them...
Catherine Chance 7 months ago
Really why? Don't you enjoy films, shows on Netflix, BBC, HBO etc, why should actors and actresses who are doing a job and doing it well be mocked and ridiculed, when half the world is screaming cancellation and jail time for anyone who is not complying with the latest internet trend of victimhood? The point is sneering at a grown woman because of her teeth is not even worthy of a child's scorn, if it was because she was bad at her job or committed a crime then maybe I would agree with you, but all she has done is dare to be herself and made a success of her life.
Load More Replies... Binky Melnik 7 months ago
“SNL” hasn’t been funny since Sandler and Schneider left. Sure, there’ll be one or two maybe-kinda good sketches (the music videos have been pretty reliably excellent), but I’ve tried repeatedly to watch it for the last 25-30 years, and it just sucks so hard I can’t understand why it’s still on the air. I gather there are people who watch it? I just find it painfully unfunny. And this girl has buck teeth/overbite, which fluoride won’t help with, so it just demonstrates to me that the show continues to sυck.
Winnie the Moo 7 months ago
And then again, if she’s insecure about her teeth, there’s this thing called braces. Personally I feel like if she fixed her teeth, it would be Jennifer Grey’s nose all over again… I like her teeth, makes her stand out.
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