In a Veneer-Obsessed World, These Are the Celebs Who Insurgent and Have fun Their Pure Tooth

Aimee Lou Wooden’s bodily look, particularly her tooth, has been the main focus of pop-culture discourse currently. Saturday Night time Dwell just lately mocked the actor’s distinguished hole in a White Lotus–themed skit. Many jumped to the actor’s protection on social media, and the actor posted a number of Instagram Tales calling the present out for being imply. “I’m not thin-skinned,” Wooden wrote. “I really love being taken the piss out of when it’s intelligent and in good spirits. However the joke was about fluoride. I’ve large hole tooth, not unhealthy tooth.”

This isn’t the primary time the White Lotus actor has publicly addressed her tooth. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter earlier this 12 months, Wooden talked in regards to the variations in demeanor and outward look between her and her American castmates. “These individuals stay in Holly­wooden,” she mentioned. “I stay in my little flat in southeast London, and I’m so British in my sensibility that I wasn’t certain the right way to deal with being round so many people who find themselves so entrance footed and assured. All I ever do is take the piss out of myself. Even the best way [White Lotus fans] are speaking about me and my tooth—that I don’t have veneers or Botox—it feels a bit rebellious.”

She took a extra celebratory notice in an interview with On Demand Leisure, the place she talked about how her tooth and British accent higher suited her White Lotus character: “I can do an American accent, however they simply wished my Manchester one. I did one tape in American and one tape in my very own [accent], and [Mike White] simply mentioned, ‘Let’s simply [do] Manchester,’ and he made [the character] from Manchester. It really works for her, I feel. I additionally don’t look very American in any respect. It’s the tooth. No Individuals have my tooth.”

And although now she would love the general public dialog to be about her work and never her tooth, she instructed The Sunday Instances that she understood why her hole has been a scorching subject of dialog. “I perceive what it represents,” she mentioned. “Individuals really feel extra assured about their imperfections. It does really feel a bit bizarre that the factor I received bullied for is now the factor that everybody’s like, ‘Woo!’”

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