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Aimee Lou Wood has no hard feelings for “SNL” star Sarah Sherman.
After the “White Lotus” actress criticized Sherman’s impression of her in a recent “Saturday Night Live” sketch, Wood revealed the comedian sent her flowers.
“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 President Donald Trump and his allies. Jon Hamm played Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 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 an exaggerated impression of Wood’s “White Lotus” character, Chelsea.
In a series of Instagram posts Sunday, Wood slammed the sketch as “mean and unfunny.” She said she doesn’t mind being made fun of but that there “must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way” to do so.
“I am not thin skinned,” she wrote. “I actually love being taken the piss out of when it’s clever and in good spirits. But the joke was about fluoride. I have big gap teeth not bad teeth. I don’t mind caricature – I understand that’s what ‘SNL’ is. But the rest of the skit was punching up and I/Chelsea was the only one punched down on.”
But the “Sex Education” star clarified she was “not hating on” Sherman but rather “hating on the concept.” In another Instagram story, Wood told followers she “had apologies from ‘SNL,’” but did not provide details.
The actress also shared numerous supportive comments from followers who applauded her for calling out the sketch, with one saying, “I have a big gap in my teeth and an overbite and you’ve genuinely made me feel so much better about myself.”
Many other “SNL” fans agreed that the sketch’s joke about Wood’s teeth was in poor taste.
“I loved everything about this (sketch) except the spoof on Aimee Lou Wood’s character,” one Reddit comment said. “That part made me feel so uncomfortable. I thought the exaggerated teeth was such a low blow, and quite frankly kind of mean.”
Wood has previously discussed being frustrated about the amount of attention that has been paid to her gap teeth, telling GQ in a recent interview, “It makes me really happy that it’s symbolizing rebellion and freedom, but there’s a limit. The whole conversation is just about my teeth, and it makes me a bit sad because I’m not getting to talk about my work.”
Wood wasn’t the first person to take issue with a “SNL” sketch about them this season.
In October, Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher slammed an “SNL” sketch about his feud with his brother Noel Gallagher, calling it “excruciating” and asking on X, “Are they meant to be comedians.” Sherman, who played Gallagher in the sketch, replied on X, “LEGEND 🙌 !!!!!!!!”
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