There are no hard feelings between Aimee Lou Wood and Saturday Night Live’s Sarah Sherman!
The White Lotus actress, 31, took to her Instagram Story on Tuesday, April 15, to show off a floral arrangement she received from Sherman just days after calling out the NBC sketch show for a “mean” parody of her.
“Thank you for the beautiful flowers @sarahsquirm,” Wood wrote over the photo, which depicts an array of pastel-colored flowers, including light orange roses.
Sherman, 32, portrayed Wood’s White Lotus character, Chelsea, in a sketch during the Saturday, April 12, episode of SNL hosted by Jon Hamm. In the skit, “The White POTUS,” Sherman portrayed a British accent and wore a set of fake teeth.
“I did find the SNL thing mean and unfunny xo,” Wood wrote via her Instagram Story on Sunday, April 13. “Such a shame cuz I had such a great time watching it a couple weeks ago. Yes, take the piss for sure — that’s what the show is about — but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?”
In a separate social media post on Sunday, Wood added, “On a positive note, everyone is agreeing with me about it, so I’m glad I said something instead of going in on myself.”
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Wood later shared with followers that SNL reached out after her comments.
“I’ve had apologies from SNL,” she wrote via her Instagram Story.
Despite not being a fan of the sketch, Wood clarified that she had no qualms with Sherman herself.
“Not @sarahsquirm’s fault x,” Wood wrote over a photo of herself gazing into the camera on Sunday. “Not hating on her, hating on the concept x.”
On Tuesday, April 15, pictures emerged of Wood in tears in the streets of London the day before. Wood took to her Instagram Story to assure fans that her emotional moment had nothing to do with SNL.
“Thank you so much,” the actress wrote, reacting to fan support following the recent SNL controversy.
“Just to say, I actually wasn’t crying about anything that the papers made out I was crying about,” she continued. “Something completely unrelated.”
The SNL sketch came amid the ongoing commentary about Wood’s tooth gap on social media.
“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?” she told U.K.’s The Sunday Times in an interview published earlier this month. “It’s like now I’m just a pair of front teeth.”
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Wood also expressed her frustration about the focus on her teeth in a recent interview with GQ.
“The whole conversation is just about my teeth, and then it makes me a bit sad because I’m not getting to talk about my work,” she said. “They think it’s nice because they’re not criticizing. And, I have to go there … I don’t know if it was a man that we would be talking about it this much? It’s still going in on a woman’s appearance.”
