‘White Lotus’ Star Aimee Lou Wood Pitched Mike White an American Accent for Her Character, But Stuck With ‘My Manchester One’, Adds ‘No Americans Have My Teeth’
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variety.comAbigail Lee Unlike many of the characters in “The White Lotus” Season 3, Chelsea isn’t American. She’s from Manchester, just like the actor who portrays her, Aimee Lou Wood.
Wood said that creator Mike White preferred her own accent compared to an American one when she tried both during the audition stage. “I can do an American accent.
But Mike just wanted my Manchester one,” Wood told The Sun. She finds that she often doesn’t come across as an American because of one specific tell. “It’s the teeth!
No Americans have my teeth. I think that genuinely is one of the things,” Wood added. “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.
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