Aimee Lou Wood doesn't regret calling out Saturday Night Live over 'mean' White Lotus spoof: 'It ...

The star compares calling out the sketch, which poked fun at her accent and teeth, to confronting a bully. Aimee Lou Wood doesn't regret calling out Saturday Ni

The star compares calling out the sketch, which poked fun at her accent and teeth, to confronting a bully.

Aimee Lou Wood doesn't regret calling out Saturday Night Live over 'mean' *White Lotus *spoof: 'It was breaking a pattern'

The star compares calling out the sketch, which poked fun at her accent and teeth, to confronting a bully.

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Aimee Lou Wood is standing by her decision to call out *Saturday Night Live* for a sketch that poked fun at her teeth, comparing the moment to confronting a bully as a child.

In April, Sarah Sherman parodied the* White Lotus *breakout in a spoof of the hit HBO show, donning a fake accent and pronounced, large fake teeth, and joking about fluoride. Wood fired back on social media, calling the sketch "mean and unfunny," setting off much discourse online. Reflecting on the fervor, Wood told BBC News in a new interview that she doesn't regret calling out the show.

"I don't regret saying it because it was breaking a pattern, which is what I would usually do — what I did when I was younger and got bullied," Wood said. "I have a choice here to go in and be embarrassed about it and just say, 'I didn't like that. It was mean.'"**

Sarah Sherman as Aimee Lou Wood during the 'White Lotus' sketch on 'Saturday Night Live'.

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In the sketch, titled The White Potus, Sherman and her costars parodied Donald Trump and his inner circle in the context of the most recent Thailand-set season 3 of the HBO dramedy. Sherman parodied Wood, the only nonpolitical figure, in the spoof that featured James Austin Johnson as a despondent Trump and Scarlett Johansson as Ivanka Trump.

Wood condemned the sketch on Instagram, writing, "Yes, take the piss for sure — that's what the show is about — but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?"**

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She told BBC News of the decision to speak out, "No matter what chaos came from it, I'm still happy for me and my personal journey that I said something."**

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"I've gone into meetings with directors that I've admired and burst into tears and not been able to say a word," Wood added. "And I think that kind of urge is always to correct, to say, 'I'm so sorry that I just did something messy,' and actually you didn't do anything wrong."

Sherman sent Wood a bouquet of flowers a few days after the ordeal, as shared by Wood on social media. A month later, the* SNL* star addressed the sketch in conversation with *Vanity Fair*, stating that she felt "terrible that anyone would feel bad."

"I was excited to play her because she's so iconic, her character is so iconic," Sherman said. "And I f---ing obviously never meant to hurt anyone's feelings. Never in a million years did I get into comedy to make anyone upset."

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