‘White Lotus’ star Aimee Lou Wood reacts to ‘SNL’ parody

Aimee Lou Wooden didn’t discover Saturday Night time Dwell fairly so humorous final weekend—and he or she’s letting everybody understand it.
The White Lotus and Intercourse Schooling star took to Instagram to voice her disappointment after SNL spoofed her character from the hit HBO sequence in a pre-taped sketch that, in accordance with her, missed the mark by a mile.
The sketch, which aired Saturday evening, was principally aimed toward poking enjoyable at Donald Trump and his political circle.
However within the combine, solid member Sarah Sherman portrayed a parody model of Wooden’s White Lotus character, Chelsea, full with an exaggerated accent, outsized pretend enamel, and the now-infamous line, “Fluoride? What’s that?”
Wooden, 31, didn’t keep silent.
By Sunday morning, she had shared her ideas with followers by way of Instagram Tales.
“I did discover the SNL factor imply and unfunny xo. (Felt righteous, may delete later),” she wrote—quick, sharp, and straight to the purpose.
She adopted up with one other submit that exposed simply how disillusioned she felt, “Such a disgrace cuz I had such a good time watching it a few weeks in the past. Sure, take the piss for certain — that’s what the present is about — however there have to be a cleverer, extra nuanced, much less low cost means?”
And in case rumors began spinning uncontrolled, Wooden cleared up one significantly bitter declare—that somebody at HBO had known as her ugly.
“No one at HBO known as me ugly!!” she said.
She defined that White Lotus creator Mike White had truly championed her for the function, “It was truthfully from the nicest place, however my little head goes: ‘HBO didn’t need me. And I do know why HBO didn’t need me, it’s as a result of I’m ugly,’” she stated, including with a mixture of sarcasm and coronary heart, “Mike needed to say, ‘Please let me have the ugly lady!’”
As the web buzz grew, it seems SNL did attain out.
In line with Wooden, the present has since apologized for the sketch. No phrase on whether or not she’s forgiven them simply but, however right here’s hoping there’s not less than a extra “nuanced” punchline subsequent time.