{"id":191247,"date":"2025-10-05T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191247\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T11:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:42:10","slug":"aimee-lou-wood-doubles-down-on-snl-criticism-no-matter-what-chaos-came-from-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191247\/","title":{"rendered":"Aimee Lou Wood doubles down on ‘SNL’ criticism, ‘no matter what chaos came from it’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“White Lotus” star Aimee Lou Wood<\/a> is doubling down on her criticism of a “Saturday Night Live” sketch<\/a> that poked fun at her.<\/p>\n

In an interview with BBC<\/a>, Wood, 31, said she didn’t regret calling out “SNL” for its portrayal of her, referencing a childhood in which she was bullied.<\/p>\n

“I don’t regret saying it because it was breaking a pattern, which is what I would usually do,” she told the outlet, “What I did when I was younger and got bullied.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Sarah Sherman, a cast member on the late-night sketch show, portrayed Wood’s “White Lotus” character, using an exaggerated accent and large false teeth, making a joke about fluoride that the actress called later called “mean and unfunny” on Instagram. She said she didn’t mind being made fun of but that there “must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way” to do so.<\/p>\n

\u2018The White Lotus\u2019 star Aimee Lou Wood revealed she’s ‘very anti-Botox.’ She’s not alone.<\/a><\/p>\n

Wood told BBC that after watching the episode, she said to herself: “I have a choice here to go in and be embarrassed about it and just say, ‘I didn’t like that. It was mean.’<\/p>\n

“No matter what chaos came from it, I\u2019m still happy for me and my personal journey that I said something,” she added. “I’ve gone into meetings with directors that I’ve admired and burst into tears and not been able to say a word, and I think that kind of urge is always to correct, to say ‘I’m so sorry that I just did something messy’ and actually you didn’t do anything wrong.”<\/p>\n

\"Aimee<\/p>\n

Aimee Lou Wood attends The 26th British Independent Film Awards at Old Billingsgate on Dec. 3, 2023 in London.<\/p>\n

Aimee Lou Wood receives flowers from ‘SNL’ star Sarah Sherman after slamming ‘mean’ sketch<\/a><\/p>\n

Following Wood’s original criticism<\/a>\u00a0of the impression, the actress revealed that Sherman had sent her flowers.<\/p>\n

“Thank you for the beautiful flowers,” Wood wrote in an Instagram story alongside a photo of the bouquet. The “SNL” sketch reimagined Season 3 of “The White Lotus” starring\u00a0President Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0and his allies.\u00a0Jon Hamm<\/a>\u00a0played\u00a0Robert F. Kennedy Jr<\/a>., who said he wanted to remove fluoride from drinking water. “What would that do to people’s teeth?” he asked. The sketch then cut to Sherman wearing fake teeth and doing a hyperbolic impression of Wood’s “White Lotus” character.<\/p>\n

Contributing: Brendan Morrow<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Aimee Lou Wood defends ‘SNL’ criticism, despite ‘chaos’ it caused<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“White Lotus” star Aimee Lou Wood is doubling down on her criticism of a “Saturday Night Live” sketch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[95498,49,48,361,75,95499,59646],"class_list":{"0":"post-191247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-aimee-lou-wood","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-sarah-sherman","14":"tag-white-lotus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}