Aimee Lou Wooden doesn’t blame Sarah Sherman for parodying her on “Saturday Night Live.”
On Sunday, the British actress, 31, spoke out in opposition to the “White Potus” sketch, which featured Sherman, 32, mocking Wooden’s “White Lotus” character, Chelsea.
After calling the skit “mean and unfunny,” Wooden clarified that she doesn’t maintain Sherman accountable.
“Not @sarahsquirm ‘s fault,” Wooden wrote alongside a selfie on her Instagram Tales. “Not hating on her, hating on the concept,” she added.
On one other slide, Wooden clarified that regardless of being upset in regards to the skit, she’s “not thin skinned.”
“I actually love being taken the piss out of when it’s clever and in good spirits,” she wrote. “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,” Wooden continued. “But the rest of the skit was punching up and I/Chelsea was the only one punched down on.”
On one other put up, Wooden appeared to screenshot a fan DM or remark in regards to the parody that learn, “It was a sharp and funny skit until it suddenly took a screeching turn into 1970’s misogyny.”
“This sums up my view,” she wrote over the screenshot.
Throughout the sketch, which parodied Donald Trump and his tariffs, host Jon Hamm, appearing as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., portrayed Walton Goggins’ Rick.
Sitting at a desk with Sherman’s Chelsea, Hamm mentioned that he has “all these crazy ideas” together with stabbing folks with a syringe of “active measles virus.”
“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?” Hamm added, as Sherman responded, “Fluoride? What’s that?”
Sherman wore prosthetic tooth to parody Chelsea — which sparked a unfavorable response from Wooden, who has mentioned earlier than that she doesn’t like being judged for her look.
“I did find the SNL thing mean and unfunny,” Wooden wrote on her IG Tales.
She added: “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?”
Wooden additionally shared a number of screenshots of followers DMs that supported her criticism of the sketch. Alongside one DM, Wooden wrote, “At least get the accent right, seriously. I respect accuracy even if it’s mean.”
Some stars who supported her included Cara Delevingne, Mick Jagger’s mannequin daughter Georgia Could Jagger and Jameela Jamil.
Two hours after her preliminary posts, Wooden wrote, “I’ve had apologies from SNL.”
The Publish has reached out to Sherman’s rep for remark. A rep for “SNL” didn’t get again to The Publish.
“The White Potus” sketch, which has over 3 million views on YouTube, additionally starred James Austin Johnson as Trump, Chloe Fineman as Melania Trump, Mikey Day as Donald Trump Jr. and Scarlett Johansson as Ivanka Trump.
