The “Saturday Night Live” star, Bowen Yang, defended the star of “The White Lotus” Aimee Lou Wood after the actress criticized the comedy program for a sketch that made fun of her appearance.
The parody of “The White Lotus” of last weekend, a pre -recorded political parody called “The White Potus”, ridiculed the members of the administration and the intimate circle of President Donald Trump. In a scene, Sarah Sherman, who portrays Wood’s character “White Lotus” Chelsea, showed a large set of false teeth while talking with an exaggerated British accent.
The sketch occurred less than a week after the end of the popular HBO program, a social satire that follows a dysfunctional group of rich guests who stay in a luxury resort. Hours after the parody “SNL” was issued, Wood shared through a series of Instagram stories that found that the “bad and disturbing” sketch.
“It’s a shame because I had a great time seeing it a couple of weeks ago,” Wood wrote. “Yes, stepped on the urine, that’s what the program is about, but should it be a more intelligent, more nuanced and less cheap way?”
Yang told Extra on Thursday that Wood’s reaction to the sketch was “completely valid.”
“With parody, you forget the type of human and emotional cost that is exalted to someone,” said Yang, adding that “all in ‘SNL'” are Wood fans and the show.
Wood also shared on Instagram that the support messages have arrived from the spectators, and that she also received “SNL apologies.” “SNL” representatives were not immediately available to comment.
In the scene that made the teeth the butt of the joke, Jon Hamm, who plays Robert F. Kennedy Jr., frantically suggests to take out the fluoride from drinking water, something that the real Kennedy has declared that he is chasing, before expressing concerns about what that could “do the teeth of the people.”
The sketch then cuts Sherman’s Chelsea, which shows her enlarged teeth while responding: “Fluoride? What is that?”
In an Instagram tracking story, Wood said he is happy to have been “the urine of [her] when it is intelligent and in a good mood. “
“But the joke was about fluoride. I have large gap teeth, not bad teeth,” Wood wrote. “I don’t care about the cartoon, I understand that this is ‘snl’. But the rest of the sketch was drilling and I/Chelsea was the only one who seized.”
In the days after the parody “SNL”, Wood published an Instagram story thanking Sherman for sending a bouquet of flowers as an apology. The comedian “SNL” had been receiving a reaction in social networks for his interpretation of Wood Chelsea.
Yang said in his interview with Extra that the episode was a reminder that “parody can go too far sometimes, and that we, as comedians, can take into account that instead of hitting our foot and saying that we should be able to say what we want.”
Wood has previously expressed his frustration with the conversation about his teeth, which have become an intrigue issue among some spectators who say they represent a refreshing contrast with the appearance of Hollywood’s veneers.
She told GQ earlier this month that, although she is glad that her teeth are “symbolizing rebellion and freedom” for some, he is getting tired of the discussion.
“All the conversation is just my teeth, and it makes me a little sad because I am not going to talk about my work. They think it is good because they are not criticizing.” Wood said. “And I have to go there … I don’t know if he was a man, would we be talking about it? It is still happening about the appearance of a woman.”
