The White Lotus and Sex Education star Aimee Lou Wood has given us a masterclass in handling unpleasant treatment as a celebrity, after a skit named The White Potus on US sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live depicted her character Chelsea with fake teeth and parodied her performance.
The skit saw James Austin Johnson play Donald Trump, with other stars such as Scarlett Johansson and Jon Hamm also portraying Ivanka Trump and Robert F Kennedy Jr respectively. Aimee posted on her Instagram Story calling the sketch “unfunny and mean”, stating that she felt it was only her and her character who were “punched down on”.
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The actor was quick to nip any “women pitted against women” discourse in the bud, adding that the entire situation was down to Sarah Sherman, the comedian and actor who portrayed her in the skit. She stressed that her problem was with the concept, which was a classy thing to do. Sherman wore prosthetic teeth and spoke in a British accent that didn’t match Aimee’s Mancunian accent.
Aimee wrote: “Actually one last thing. Not Sarah Sherman’s fault. Not hating on her, hating on the concept.”
After confirming she’d had an apology from SNL, she also posted: “The last thing I’ll say on the matter. I am not thin-skinned. I actually love being taken the p*** 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.”
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