'White Lotus' Star Aimee Lou Wood Responded to Fan Comments About Her Teeth

Aimee Lou Wood has quickly established herself as one of White Lotus Season 3’s most talked-about characters, playing the astrology-loving Chelsea who takes a Thailand vacation with her increasingly surly older boyfriend Rick (played by Walton Goggins). Wood’s distinct teeth have quickly become the topic of online chatter–yes, they’re real–and the Sex Education actress has previously shared that they’ve impacted her acting career. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the star opened up about why she feels like embracing her unique smile is “a bit rebellious.”

Wood told the publication that she relates to Wood feeling somewhat like a “misfit” while working with an overwhelmingly American cast, which included Patrick Schwarzenegger, Iris Apatow, and Sarah Catherine Hook. She shared, “These people live in Holly­wood. I live in my little flat in South East London, and I’m so British in my sensibility that I wasn’t sure how to handle being around so many people who are so front-footed and confident.”

She added, “All I ever do is take the piss out of myself. Even the way [White Lotus fans] are talking about me and my teeth—that I don’t have veneers or Botox—it feels a bit rebellious.”

Wood has previously said that she thinks that her teeth would prevent her from playing an American on screen. “It’s the teeth. Like, no Americans have my teeth," she said during the February On Demand Entertainment interview. "They just don’t. I’d have to get veneers. Because … I think that genuinely is like one of the things."

While the British star said she previously struggled with not being “conventional-looking enough” for many roles, she found an unlikely role model–Georgia Jagger–who’s helped her embrace her “buck teeth.”

In a March Instagram video, Wood shared, “[My mouth] was the thing that everyone pointed out and it was the thing that made me different. And I’ve never seen an actress on TV with teeth like mine. When Georgia Jagger did the ‘Get the London Look’ and she had the gap teeth, that was a huge moment. I then thought, ‘I am going to put red lipstick on and I am going to draw attention to it.’”

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