White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wooden condemns SNL’s ‘imply and unfunny’ sketch | Aimee Lou Wooden

Aimee Lou Wooden has described a sketch on the US comedy present, Saturday Night time Dwell (SNL), as “imply and unfunny” after it mocked the actor’s look.

The British star, who’s finest identified for showing within the tv collection The White Lotus, used an Instagram publish to criticise the skit during which the SNL solid member Sarah Sherman impersonated her, showing in exaggerated prosthetic enamel.

“While in sincere mode – I did discover the SNL factor imply and unfunny,” she wrote, however mentioned she may delete the publish later. SNL had since apologised for the sketch, Wooden added.

Wooden performs Chelsea within the third collection of The White Lotus, which follows the lives of friends and employees at a luxurious resort in Thailand as darkish secrets and techniques are revealed and tensions rise over the course of the vacation.

Through the skit, titled White Potus, the collection’ characters have been changed by depictions of Donald Trump and his interior circle.

In later posts, Wooden, who has additionally starred in Intercourse Schooling and Poisonous City, mentioned: “Such a disgrace cuz I had such a good time watching it a pair weeks in the past. Sure, take the piss for positive – that’s what the present is about – however there have to be a cleverer, extra nuanced, much less low cost approach?”

Wooden additionally later mentioned she was “not skinny skinned” and understood that SNL was about “caricature”.

“However the entire joke was about fluoride,” she added. “I’ve large hole enamel not dangerous enamel. The remainder of the skit was punching up and I/Chelsea was the one one punched down on.”

She added: “On a optimistic be aware, everyone seems to be agreeing with me about it so I’m glad I mentioned one thing as a substitute of getting in on myself.”

In a current GQ Hype interview, Wooden mentioned the dialog about her look made her “a bit unhappy” as she was “not getting to speak about my work”.

On Instagram, she additionally addressed confusion over the interview, clarifying that her feedback about feeling “ugly” stemmed from her personal insecurities, not from something mentioned by HBO.

Within the interview, Wooden defined how White was mentioned to have fought to solid her, which had made her really feel insecure. “That was my very own paranoid thought,” she mentioned.