Aimee Lou Wood Compares Calling Out Saturday Night Live Sketch To Confronting School Bullies

Aimee Lou Wood at the Emmys earlier this monthAimee Lou Wood is standing by her comments calling out a now-infamous Saturday Night Live sketch which made fun of her teeth.Back in spring, the Bafta winner was parodied in a political SNL sketch based on The White Lotus, for which comedian Sarah Sherman donned fake teeth and attempted an exaggerated Manchester accent, before remarking: “Fluoride? What’s that?”At the time, the former Sex Education star wrote on Instagram that she’d found the skit “mean and unfunny”, stating: “Take the piss for sure – that’s what the show is about – but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?”She later added: “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.”A media furore followed, which Aimee was asked about during a recent interview with BBC News.Revealing she was surprised at the attention her comments received, she insisted: “I don’t regret saying it because it was breaking a pattern [of] what I would usually do [and] what I did when I was younger and got bullied, [which was to] internalise it, try and make them like me, ‘please like me so you stop being mean to me’.”“Actually I remember seeing [the sketch] and thinking, ‘I have the choice here to go in, be embarrassed about it or just say I didn’t like that, it was mean’,” she continued. “And so, no matter what chaos came from it, I’m still happy for me and my personal journey that I said something.”View this post on InstagramA post shared by BBC News UK (@bbcnewsuk)Aimee later claimed she’d received flowers as an apology from Sarah Sherman, who herself said: “I fucking obviously never meant to hurt anyone’s feelings. Never in a million years did I get into comedy to make anyone upset. I feel terrible that anyone would feel bad.”Speaking on the red carpet at the Met Gala in May, Aimee also admitted she felt the fall-out from the SNL sketch, and her comments about it, had grown “very out of control”.READ MORE:Walton Goggins And Aimee Lou Wood Finally Break Silence On Feud RumoursAimee Lou Wood Reacts To Patrick Schwarzenegger 'Nepo Baby' CommentsAimee Lou Wood Thanks Saturday Night Live Comedian For 'Beautiful' Gesture After 'Mean' Sketch

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