The fallout from the controversial SNL sketch involving Aimee Lou Wood has ended with the actor receiving a bouquet of flowers.
On the April 12 episode of Saturday Night Live, a spoof sketch aired that saw Sarah Sherman play a version of Wood’s White Lotus character Chelsea. It revolved around a scenario that included James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump, Chloe Fineman’s Melania Trump, Mikey Day’s Donald Trump Jr. And Jon Hamm’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Hamm’s RFK was dressed as Walton Goggin’s Rick from The White Lotus – the boyfriend of Chelsea – and he said: “I’ve been having these insane ideas, like what if we took all the fluoride out of the drinking water? What would that do to people’s teeth?”
The camera cut to Sherman’s Chelsea, who was sporting exaggerated false teeth. She replied: “Fluoride? What’s that?”
It prompted Wood to describe the sketch as “mean and unfunny”, adding: “Such a shame cuz I had such a great time watching it a couple of weeks ago,” she added. “Yes, take the piss for sure – that’s what the show is about- but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?”
The actor had already confirmed that she had received a rare apology from the show, and now she has posted a photograph on her Instagram Stories of a bouquet of flowers that Sherman sent her personally.
“Thank you for the beautiful flowers @sarahsquirm,” she wrote.
In an earlier post, Wood had made clear that she did not hold Sherman responsible for the sketch. “The last thing I’ll say on the matter,” she wrote. “I am not thin-skinned. I actually love being taken the piss 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.
“Actually one last thing. Not Sarah Sherman’s fault. Not hating on her, hating on the concept.”
Wood has spoken recently about the impact her teeth have had on her acting career, joking that she would not be accepted in a role as an American because of them. “No Americans have my teeth,” she said. “I think that genuinely is one of the things.”
“I played an American in a play in Chicago and afterwards this guy in the bar, he was talking to me and he went, ‘I knew it, I knew it. Your accent was great but I knew you weren’t American. You just don’t look American.’”
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