“Aimee Lou Wood’s Bold Response to SNL’s Teeth Jibe: Comedy or Cruelty?”
“I did find the SNL thing mean and unfunny,” she wrote in her Instagram Stories.
“Such a shame cuz I had such a great time watching it a couple weeks ago,” she added.
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In the sketch, the parodied Chelsea appeared in a short scene with Jon Hamm’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was dressed like Rick, Chelsea’s boyfriend in The White Lotus.
“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?” said the spoofed RFK.
That’s when Sarah’s Chelsea appeared, sporting big false teeth and an exaggerated accent.
“Fluoride? What’s that?” she asked.
SNL cast member Sarah Sherman played the spoofed version of Aimee’s The White Lotus character, Chelsea
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After the episode aired, Aimee said she was “not thin-skinned” and understood that SNL was all about “caricature.”
“But the whole joke was about fluoride,” she wrote in one Instagram Story.
“I have big gap teeth, not bad teeth,” she said.
“The rest of the skit was punching up,” she added, “and I/Chelsea was the only one punched down on.”
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The Sex Education star believed the script could have been “less cheap.”
“Yes, take the p*ss for sure — that’s what the show is about — but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?” she wrote.
“I/Chelsea was the only one punched down on,” the English actress wrote in an Instagram Story
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Aimee wanted to make it clear that she wasn’t “hating on” Sarah for playing the spoofed version of her character but was “hating on the concept.”
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