Aimee Lou Wooden Supported by Stars & Household, Defends Sarah Sherman After ‘Imply’ SNL Skit

She additionally took a second to single out Sarah Sherman, the forged member who portrayed her character Chelsea within the “White Potus” parody sketch, insisting that every one of that is “not [Sarah’s] fault,” including, “not hating on her, hating on the idea.”

Within the “White Potus” sketch, the vast majority of the visitors within the sketch have been members of President Trump’s cupboard, workers, or household — together with shock returns from Beck Bennett, Alex Moffat, and Scarlett Johansson, as Vladimir Putin and Trump youngsters Eric and Ivanka.

That is why it was maybe a bit jarring when Sherman confirmed up not as a political parody, however relatively as only a tackle Wooden’s character, with an outsized deal with her giant, faux enamel.

Whereas she’s principally seen help for taking a stand towards the portrayal, Wooden’s “final thing” on the subject, which turned out to not be the very last thing in any respect, got here Sunday night time as she argued she’s not “skinny skinned” and might take a joke, even at her expense.

However this was totally different.

“I really love being taken the piss out of when it is intelligent and in good spirits,” she wrote. “However the joke was about flouride. I’ve large hole enamel not unhealthy enamel. I do not thoughts caricature – I perceive that is what SNL is. However the remainder of the skit was punching up and I/Chelsea was the one one punched down on… Okay finish of.”

Amongst fan supporters Wooden shared to her Instagram Tales after her preliminary response to the sketch went viral, she shared phrases of reward and help from fellow actress Jameela Jamil, who’s a longtime and outspoken advocate for ladies within the trade.

“I hate this a lot,” Jamil wrote. “It is the least attention-grabbing factor about this sensible actor. Our subsequent Olivia Coleman. Hilarious, deep, weak, and relentlessly lovable.”

“We make enjoyable of the assimilation of girls,” she added, “after which mercilessly obsess over anybody with any barely various options from no matter bulls–t AI normal we’ve allowed, as ladies, to seize this world.”

In a follow-up reshare of her personal publish, she added a brand new caption, “I additionally assume she’s so f–king stunning and love her face a lot and would not need her to look any totally different.”

Wooden’s sister additionally jumped in to defend her well-known sibling, sharing a snap of the 2 of them collectively and saying her sister is “out right here personifying the phrase POWERHOUSE.”

“The admiration I’ve for this lady is nuts. Past comprehension. JUST like my feels of deep animalistic protectiveness over her,” wrote Emily Wooden. “The best large sister. My finest human on the planet. Her authenticity and originality is incomparable. My God we’re actually madly blessed to expertise life on Earth concurrently her.”

Tori Allen-Martin, finest recognized for her work in numerous British TV sequence like Unforgotten and London Kills, shared a powerful message with photographer/director Rosaline Shahnavaz to her personal IG tales that learn it “blows my thoughts in 2025 @aimeelouwood is THAT proficient and THAT stunning and nonetheless having to high school grown ups on misogyny and bullying.”

“It’s loopy that after relentlessly chic performances in EVERYTHING she touches there may be even a dialog about something to do along with her (magnificient, however regardless…) look EVER,” the notice continued. “It blows my thoughts.”

“However in true testomony to her stunning character she’s dealt with all of it like a boss,” the shared assertion concluded. “@aimeelouwood – you’re magic, you’re an alchemist, I salute you. I am sorry you have needed to take care of this. You are unimaginable.”

As Monday progressed, Wooden stored sharing extra supportive feedback she was receiving, together with one fan who wrote, “Actually lame from @nbcsnl to make a political skit then randomly deal with one particular person’s look. And now … it is all about appears to be like. Change the report, it is boring.”

Wooden pulled up a last remark that she mentioned “sums up my view.” It learn merely, “It was a pointy and humorous skit till it instantly took a screeching flip into 1970’s misogyny.”

As a part of a thread on her Instagram Tales over the weekend the place she was speaking overtly about her insecurities about her look, Wooden weighed in on the controversial second, writing, “However while in sincere mode – I did discover the SNL factor imply and unfunny xo.”

Acknowledging she was even feeling insecure about saying this a lot, the actress added a further caption to the selfie slide, “(Felt righteous would possibly delete later x).”

“So, to conclude right this moment’s rant: @hbo – variety and supportive and by no means wronged me so depart them alone @nbcsnl – imply,” she added in a follow-up slide.

As messages of help began pouring in, Wooden commented, “Such a disgrace cuz I had such a good time watching it a pair weeks in the past. Sure, take the piss for certain – -that’s what the present is about – however there should be a cleverer, extra nuanced, much less low-cost method?”

“On a optimistic notice, everyone seems to be agreeing with me about it so I am glad I mentioned one thing as a substitute of stepping into on myself,” she added in one other slide.

Wooden returned hours later to share that she’d by this level obtained “THOUSANDS of messages in settlement with me posting that,” including that she’s “Glad I mentioned one thing.”

One fan famous in a remark Wooden shared to her Tales, “Everybody else in that parody was a political determine who was being mocked. The one character who wasn’t political was Chelsea, and so they have been clearly simply taking the piss out of your look/accent, which is extraordinarily c—y and uncalled for!”

Lastly, after chronicling her ideas and sharing extra fan feedback, Wooden revealed in a last slide with an exaggerated emphasis on her eyes and mouth, “I’ve had apologies from SNL.”

It is not the primary time Wooden has spoken out about this deal with her pure enamel, with even the optimistic feedback generally being an excessive amount of — when it begins to really feel that is all anybody is speaking about (or parodying).

“It makes me actually comfortable that it’s symbolising rise up and freedom, however there’s a restrict,” she advised GQ Hype lately. “The entire dialog is nearly my enamel, and it makes me a bit unhappy as a result of I am not getting to speak about my work.”

“They assume it’s good as a result of they’re not criticising,” Wooden continued. “And, I’ve to go there … I don’t know if it was a person, would we be speaking about it this a lot? It’s nonetheless occurring a few lady’s look.”

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