Wood says she\u2019s glad she spoke up about the \u201cmean and unfunny\u201d impression, even if it caused \u201cchaos”<\/p>\n
\n\tAimee Lou Wood<\/a> has no regrets about calling out Saturday Night Live<\/a> for the way they portrayed her White Lotus character. Back in April, the actor slammed Sarah Sherman<\/a>\u2019s impression as \u201cmean and unfunny<\/a>.\u201d Now, in a new BBC News interview<\/a>, Wood says she stands by every word.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI don\u2019t regret saying it because it was breaking a pattern, which is what I would usually do \u2014 what I did when I was younger and got bullied,\u201d Wood told the outlet. \u201cNo matter what chaos came from it, I\u2019m still happy for me and my personal journey that I said something.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn the sketch, Sherman played Wood\u2019s The White Lotus character Chelsea, donning oversized fake teeth and mocking her Manchester accent with a line dumbing her character down more in a conversation about removing fluoride from water and eating monkeys.<\/p>\n \n\tWood explained that speaking out on her feelings about the sketch was about resisting the instinct to shrink herself. \u201cI have a choice here to go in and be embarrassed about it and just say, \u2018I didn\u2019t like that. It was mean,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve gone into meetings with directors that I\u2019ve admired and burst into tears and not been able to say a word. The urge is always to correct, to say, \u2018I\u2019m so sorry I just did something messy,\u2019 when actually you didn\u2019t do anything wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tA month after Wood\u2019s comments, Sherman admitted the bit missed<\/a> the mark. \u201cI was excited to play her because she\u2019s so iconic, her character is so iconic,\u201d Sherman told Vanity Fair. \u201cAnd I fucking obviously never meant to hurt anyone\u2019s feelings. Never in a million years did I get into comedy to make anyone upset. I feel terrible that anyone would feel bad.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSherman sent Wood flowers<\/a> at the time, and Wood said she also received an apology from SNL<\/a>. Still, she found the joke cheap. \u201cI don\u2019t mind caricature \u2014 I understand that\u2019s what SNL is. But the rest of the skit was punching up and I\/Chelsea was the only one punched down on,\u201d she said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wood says she\u2019s glad she spoke up about the \u201cmean and unfunny\u201d impression, even if it caused \u201cchaos”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[115702,64,63,134,116592,33892,46340,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-181648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-aimee-lou-wood","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-sarah-sherman","13":"tag-saturday-night-live","14":"tag-snl","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}