Spoilers for The White Lotus season 3 finale ahead!
As you (hopefully) already know, Chelsea met her tragic end on the season 3 finale of The White Lotus, dying for love alongside her soulmate Rick. But there's something else the actor behind Chelsea would like to see die: the talk about Aimee Lou Wood's teeth.
While Aimee maintains that she is very proud to represent all the gap tooth girlies out there, she's also over the discourse. “It makes me really happy that it's symbolizing rebellion and freedom, but there's a limit,” she said in a new interview with GQ. “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.”
She added that, while she knows that people aren't criticizing her, all the talk about her appearance has been disappointing. “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,” she said.
Given what a fan-favorite Chelsea was this season, largely thanks to Aimee's performance, it's understandable that the actor would find it frustrating to be talking about something so trivial. “Why am I talking about my gnashers?” she wondered in an interview with Sunday Times. “It's like now I'm just a pair of front teeth.”
Part of what made Aimee's teeth noticeable to fans was because of how rare it is to see in a Hollywood show (veneers are everywhere) and how authentically beautiful the actor looks in a world obsessed with an idea of “perfection.” But there's a fine line between celebrating someone's smile and reducing them to it.
During an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show a few weeks ago, Aimee said that the discourse had even gotten to the point that she sees videos from orthodontists on Instagram analyzing her teeth. “They like dissect my teeth and say what's wrong with it, but then at the end go, ‘But we don't think she should change a thing,’” she said. (Though she added that it was “lovely” to be complimented on something she was bullied about growing up.)
So, let this be the end of it. Aimee will no longer be entertaining the teeth discourse. Now go back to obsessing over your group chat's White Lotus theories.
