Aimee Lou Wooden has revealed she was left feeling “ugly” after studying that she Mike White, the creator of “The White Lotus,” caught his neck out for her through the casting course of for season three.
The British actor, who can also be recognized for her function in “Sex Education,” mentioned that her spiral began when a producer on the present “told me how much Mike [White] had fought for me.”
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“They said ‘It had to be you, no matter what HBO said,’” Wooden shared in an interview with GQ, printed on Tuesday.
“It was honestly from the nicest place, but my little head goes: ‘HBO didn’t want me. And I know why HBO didn’t want me, it’s because I’m ugly,’” she recalled pondering. ”‘Mike had to say ‘Please let me have the ugly girl!’ That was the factor that was in my head.”
The general public’s give attention to Wooden’s distinctive tooth seemingly hasn’t helped, both. Wooden mentioned that whereas the discourse is optimistic, “there’s a limit” to how a lot she needs to listen to about it.

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“The whole conversation is just about my teeth, and it makes me a bit sad because I’m not getting to talk about my work. They think it’s nice because they’re not criticizing,” Wooden advised the journal. “And, I have to go there… I don’t know if it was a man would we be talking about it this much? It’s still going on about a woman’s appearance.”
Wooden, who has been referred to as the “breakout star” of the present’s third season for her efficiency because the quirky Chelsea, has mentioned beforehand that she did discover the optimistic consideration good after “being bullied for my teeth forever.”
Throughout an look on ITV’s “The Jonathan Ross Show” she did jokingly urge followers to not attempt to recreate her smile themselves.
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“I hope people don’t start filing their teeth so they have gaps,” Wooden mentioned with fun.