White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has responded to a Saturday Night Live skit that mocked her character in the HBO series.
During the most recent episode of the sketch comedy show, actress Sarah Sherman portrayed Wood using a set of very pronounced fake teeth.
“I did find the SNL thing mean and unfunny,” Wood wrote in a series of Instagram Stories posts about the sketch,” adding she “felt righteous” and “might delete [the post] later.”
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“Such a shame cuz I had such a great time watching it a couple weeks ago,” she wrote on another slide.
“Yes, take the piss for sure – that’s what the show is about – but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?”
The sketch, The White Potus, included a parody of various Trump family members as if they were in White Lotus.
Instead of Jason Isaacs’ Timothy Ratliff, there was Donald Trump; Parker Posey’s character was taken on by Chloe Fineman to become Melania Trump. Mikey Day and former cast member Alex Moffat played Trump’s sons, Don Jr. and Eric.
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John Hamm starred as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. alongside Sherman, drawing comparisons to Walton Goggins’ Rick and Wood’s Chelsea in Season 3 of the hit show.
During a scene with Hamm and Sherman, the Mad Men star asks, “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?”
Sherman then showed off a comically large set of fake teeth, saying, “Fluoride? What’s that?”
Wood’s response to the skit prompted an outpouring of support from fans.
The actress updating her social media posts to add, “OMG, I’ve got THOUSANDS of messages in agreement with me since posting that. Thanks, guys. Glad I said something.”
The star went on to share some of the messages from her fans about the sketch, with one fan writing, “I agree – everyone else in that parody was a political figure who was being mocked.
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“The only character that wasn’t political was Chelsea, and they were clearly just taking the piss out of your appearancet/accent, which is extremely c—- and uncalled for!”
Another follower shared, “It was mean and unfunny and saying it out loud removes their power. You’re unreal in every way. I have a big gap in my teeth and an overbite and you genuinely made me feel so much better about myself.”
Wood later revealed that she had received an apology from the show, writing, “I’ve had apologies from SNL.”
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