The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood calls out SNL for mean sketch about her
The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has called out SNL for a sketch about her that she described as "mean and unfunny".
Wood, who plays Chelsea in Season 3 of the HBO series, made a series of Instagram posts on Sunday directly addressing a sketch from Saturday's SNL show. Called "The White Potus", the satire sees the SNL cast playing various political figures in the style of Season 3 White Lotus characters — with the exception of Sarah Sherman, who simply plays a version of Chelsea with large fake teeth.
"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?" says Jon Hamm as RFK Jr./Rick in the sketch, before the camera cuts to Sherman as Chelsea asking what fluoride is.
"Whilst in honest mode — I did find the SNL thing mean and unfunny," wrote Wood in an Instagram story posted on Sunday. "Such a shame cuz I had such a great time watching it a couple weeks ago. Yes, take the piss for sure – that's what the show is about – but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way."
Here's the sketch in full. You can see Sherman playing Wood's character around the 2:30 mark:
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Wood has since shared an update to say she's had an apology from SNL.
"I'm 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."
Mashable has reached out to NBC for comment.