‘White Lotus’ star Aimee Lou Wood reacts to comments about her teeth: ‘It feels a bit rebellious’

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“White Lotus” fandom’s comments about her teeth in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.“These people live in Holly­wood,” the British actress said 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.Wood, who plays Walton Goggins’ younger girlfriend, Chelsea, in Season 3 of the HBO series, has said that creator Mike White wanted her to use her Manchester accent instead of an American one for the role.She told the Sun last week that her teeth have always 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,” Wood said.The “Sex Education” star continued, “I played an American in a play in Chicago and afterward 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.’ ”Wood opened up more about how her teeth have shaped her self-confidence since she was a kid in a March 3 Instagram video. “A big thing for me growing up was my mouth,” she said, “because it was the thing that everyone pointed out, and it was the thing that made me different.”Wood explained that she “had never seen an actress on TV with teeth like mine” until Mick Jagger’s daughter, Georgia May Jagger, began appearing in commercials in 2009.“When Georgia Jagger did ‘get the London look’ and she had the gap teeth, that was a huge.