Aimee Lou Wood has revealed the one thing that she found scarier than sex scenes while filming The White Lotus.
The actress, 31, stars as Chelsea in the HBO series, who is taking a vacation to Thailand with her older boyfriend Rick (Walton Goggins).
Amiee, who shot to fame in the Netflix show Sex Education, has also nabbed roles in BBC and Netflix series’ but still gets nervous on set.
Speaking about her time filming for The White Lotus in Thailand, she admitted that sex scenes she ‘let go,’ but bikini shots made her uncomfortable.
Aimee told The Sun: ‘I was more nervous about bikinis than sex scenes.
‘I was more worried about just being around the pool because I feel like that’s when you’re thinking more about how you look.’
Aimee Lou Wood has revealed the one thing that she found scarier than sex scenes while filming The White Lotus
The actress, 31, stars as Chelsea in the HBO series, who is taking a vacation to Thailand with her older boyfriend Rick (Walton Goggins)
She added: ‘In an intimate scene, it’s about the intimacy. But then you just, kind of, have to forget that. You just have to let it go. The bikini scenes were way scarier to me, actually.’
Amiee previously told of how she battled eating disorders and body dysmorphia in childhood, before staff at drama school RADA intervened.
She told Harper’s Bazaar: ‘I hated my body and didn’t want to be in it – that’s not the case any more, thank God.
‘But then, going to drama school, it can get even worse. I have scoliosis [curvature of the spine], so neutral for me is not neutral for everyone else.
‘You go to drama school and everyone’s being straightened out. It’s not easy being told you’re moving wrong – it’s basically a tirade on your body.’
Aimee told how she struggled with expressing herself through her body while acting at drama school, which only worsened her eating disorder struggles.
‘I was so detached from my body when I was in the eating disorders, it was like I was outside it, scrutinising it,’ she tearfully told The Guardian in 2023.
‘There are things around the acting that I have found in the past quite hard, and I’m finding them easier the more loving I am to myself.’
She expained: ‘In an intimate scene, it’s about the intimacy. But then you just, kind of, have to forget that. You just have to let it go. The bikini scenes were way scarier to me, actually’
However, her struggles with bulimia were eventually noticed by staff at RADA, where she trained, leading to a ‘harsh but necessary’ intervention.
In a new interview this week, she hinted at how she was initially nervous to star alongside some huge Hollywood names in the HBO hit. However, she now loves how their lifestyle differences – and her looks – set her apart.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Aimee remarked: ‘These people live in Hollywood. I live in my little flat in South East London.
‘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 p*** out of myself.’
Directly addressing the constant attention her distinctive teeth get, she added: ‘Even the way (The White Lotus fans) are talking about me and my teeth — that I don’t have veneers or Botox – it feels a bit rebellious.’
The beauty, who shot to fame in the Netflix show Sex Education, previously told how she once thought she was ‘too ugly’ to land major roles after being tormented by bullies.
In a new interview, she hinted at how she was initially nervous to star alongside some huge Hollywood names in the HBO hit. However, she now loves how her looks set her apart
Directly addressing the constant attention her distinctive teeth get, she added: ‘Even the way fans are talking about me and my teeth — that I don’t have veneers or Botox – it feels rebellious’
Aimee revealed to the Observer back in 2021 how she used to be bullied over her appearance when she was younger, being picked on about her body and teeth.
This led to the star, who attended top acting academy RADA before taking on meaty theatre roles at the National Theatre in London among others, believing she wouldn’t get a TV job because she was ‘too weird-looking’.
A year earlier she was asked by Stylist if her teeth were a ‘barrier’ when it came to her career, with Aimee remarking that this was not the case.
She said: ‘It’s completely in my head. It’s a myth I’ve told myself. I had it in my brain that I’m not conventional-looking enough and that’s a mental barrier I’ve had to overcome.’