Her enamel are on everybody’s lips.
Aimee Lou Wooden addressed the “White Lotus” fandom’s commentary about her enamel in a latest interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
“These people live in Hollywood,” the British actress stated about her American co-stars. “I live in my little flat in South East London, and I’m so British in my sensibility that I wasn’t sure how to handle being around so many people who are so front-footed and confident.”
“All I ever do is take the piss out of myself. Even the way [‘White Lotus’ fans] are talking about me and my teeth — that I don’t have veneers or Botox — it feels a bit rebellious,” she added.
Wooden, who performs Walton Goggins’ youthful girlfriend, Chelsea, in Season 3 of the HBO collection, has stated that creator Mike White needed her to make use of her Manchester accent as a substitute of an American one for the function.
She instructed The Solar final week that her enamel have all the time given away that she isn’t American.
“It’s the teeth! No Americans have my teeth. I think that genuinely is one of the things,” Wooden stated.
The “Sex Education” star continued, “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.’”
Wooden opened up extra about how her enamel have formed her self-confidence since she was a child in a March 3 Instagram video.
“A big thing for me growing up was my mouth,” she stated, “because it was the thing that everyone pointed out, and it was the thing that made me different.”
Wooden defined that she “had never seen an actress on TV with teeth like mine” till Mick Jagger’s daughter, Georgia Could Jagger, started showing in commercials in 2009.
“When Georgia Jagger did ‘get the London look’ and she had the gap teeth, that was a huge moment,” stated Wooden. “I thought ‘No, I am going to put red lipstick on and I am going to draw attention to it.’”
“Playing loads of different characters has really helped with my self-confidence surrounding beauty. I’ve had to surrender control a lot,” she added. “The more than you can surrender, the more beautiful you feel.”
Wooden may very well be thought of an outlier in Hollywood contemplating many within the highlight have gotten veneers.
Dr. Invoice Dorfman, who has finished dental work on Hugh Jackman, Eva Longoria, Anne Hathaway and extra, instructed The Hollywood Reporter final yr, “I’ve treated most of the peak A-list celebrities in town, and you’d never know they have veneers.”
“The worst thing in the world for me is if someone walks up to you and says, ‘Oh my God, your veneers look great.’ I don’t want people to know you have them,’” he added.
However Wooden has held out on altering her enamel regardless of the pressures of Hollywood. In 2020, she instructed Stylist UK her enamel have by no means restricted her appearing alternatives.
“It’s completely in my head,” Wooden defined. “It’s a myth I’ve told myself. I had it in my brain that I’m not conventional-looking enough and that’s a mental barrier I’ve had to overcome.”
Wooden additionally shared that she’s turn into a job mannequin due to her enamel.
“I’m getting hundreds of messages from people going, ‘Oh my god, you’ve got teeth like mine. Now I go to school and people think I’m cool because I look like Aimee,”‘ she stated.
