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Saturday Night Live is known for tackling major events and trends with the cultural zeitgeist and one of the most notable recent pop culture moments was the return of The White Lotus, so of course the long-running sketch comedy show parodied the most recent season on its April 12 episode. While some viewers were loving the sketch, one person who wasn't laughing was White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood.
Wood slammed SNL's pre-taped political sketch, which was called The White POTUS, calling it "mean" as cast member Sarah Sherman wore a similar outfit to Wood's character Chelsea and had an exaggerated dental prosthetic seemingly to mimic the British actress' own smile as she asked "Fluoride? What's that?," per Page Six.
"I did find the SNL thing mean and unfunny xo," she wrote on her Instagram Stories on Sunday (April 13), adding that there had to have been a "clever, more nuanced, less cheap way" to poke fun at her character.
She expanded on her feelings in a follow-up Story, noting that she isn't "thin skinned" and can take a joke when it's not mean spirited.
"I am not think skinned. I actually love being taken the piss out of when it's clever and in good spirits," she said. "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."
Despite her feelings about the sketch, Wood also defended Sherman and acknowledged that it wasn't her fault, adding that she is "not hating on her [but] hating on the concept."
The Sex Education star, who has been open about being bullied over her smile in the past, recently explained that she is tired of people talking about her teeth and would much rather talk about her character rather than her "gnashers."