The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood is done with the attention surrounding her unique smile.
“It’s, like, cool, and now I want to stop f***ing talking about it. Can I talk about my character? Why am I talking about my gnashers?” Wood, 31, told The Sunday Times in an interview published on Saturday, April 5. “It’s like now I’m just a pair of front teeth.”
While talking with the outlet, Wood reflected on viewers discussing her teeth and costar Jason Isaac’s full frontal moment. (In an earlier episode, Isaac’s Timothy bared it all with a prosthetic.)
“I understand what it represents. People feel more confident about their imperfections. It does feel a bit weird that the thing I got bullied for is now the thing that everyone’s, like, ‘Woo!’” she said of her smile. “It’s still the thing that’s defining me.”
Wood, who is starring as Chelsea in season 3 of The White Lotus, has been candid about her teeth through the years.
“I’d always be super confident when I went to theater auditions, but if it was a TV thing I’d be so shocked when I got a recall,” she told Stylist in 2020. “I sometimes thought, ‘Oh, a Channel 4 thing, I might have a chance on there.’ Then Sex Education came along and I was like, ‘Well, what have I seen on Netflix? Everyone has perfect Hollywood teeth.’”
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While reflecting on her career, Wood told On Demand Entertainment in February that she didn’t expect to play an American on TV.
“It’s the teeth. Like, no Americans have my teeth,” she said. “They just don’t. I’d have to get veneers. Because I think that genuinely is like one of the things. “[After I played an American in a play] a guy after in the bar was like … he was talking to me, and I spoke to him, and I spoke like this, and he went, ‘I knew it. I knew it.’ Because he was like, ‘Your accent was great, but I knew you weren’t American. You just don’t look American.’”
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The conversation surrounding her teeth has felt “full-circle” for Wood, who shared that she was “bullied” about her smile in the past.
When asked on The Jonathan Ross Show about the support she received regarding her smile, Wood replied, “It feels so lovely. A real full-circle moment after being bullied for my teeth forever. Now people are clapping in an audience.”
Wood noted that she “can’t believe the impact” her physical appearance has made on fans, adding that she hopes viewers are not trying to replicate her smile at the dentist. She went on to discourage fans not to “start filing their teeth so they have gaps.”
The White Lotus season 3 finale airs on HBO Sunday, April 6, at 9 p.m. ET.
