March 3, 2025

Photo: Yasmine Dibu

The best actors in Hollywood have a quirk that sets them apart from the rest: a crooked nose, a luscious mane of hair, maybe a bit of a smirk. When I sit down at a café in South East London with actress Aimee Lou Wood, prominent, perfect squares prod gently out of her mouth as she smiles. They serve her well: It was her conspicuously British teeth, she claims, that helped her land the role of Chelsea, a head-in-the-clouds, spiritually curious, astrology-obsessed young Brit vacationing in Thailand, in season three of HBO’s The White Lotus. A fan of Jennifer Coolidge’s performance on the first two seasons of Mike White’s watercooler-chat hit, she “was desperate to do some of those simmering, tense, yucky scenes,” Wood says, once we’ve settled in among the dogs and babies at the café. “But I just couldn’t see where I fit at all.”

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By Madame Clairevoyant

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