Bowen Yang expressed support for Aimee Lou Wood after she criticized publicly Saturday Night Live for her representation of her in a parody of The white lotus last weekend.
“However, she reacted to this sketch is completely valid,” said Yang recently Additional. “With a parody, you somehow forget the kind of human and emotional cost that he somehow boasts on someone.”
The sketch in question, entitled “The White Potus”, targeted Donald Trump and his allies, with James Austin Johnson as president, Mikey Day as Donald Trump Jr., Jon Hamm as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Chloe Fineman as Melania Trump. But that was the representation by Sarah Sherman of Wood White lotus The character, Chelsea, who offended the wood and triggered a backlash.
Sherman appeared in satire with false teeth, extended and speaking in an exaggerated British accent. A few hours after the episode, Wood nicknamed the representation “Mean and Flunnny”.
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By reflecting on Wood’s reaction last week, Yang described the backlash as a learning opportunity for the actors. “This is this thing that we tend to forget sometimes, and it’s a reminder,” said Yang. “It seems that she spoke to people in the series, and I hope there is room to pass it.”
He continued: “You need these reminders from time to time that this parody can go too far, and that we, as actors, can take (responsibility) for that instead of hitting our foot and saying:” We should be allowed to say what we want. “”
Wood was frank on her problems with the sketch in a series of Instagram stories that she published shortly after her broadcast, by writing: “Yes, take the piss for sure – that is what it is – but there must be a more intelligent, more nuanced and cheaper way?”
She also shared and responded to several fans’ messages on the sketch, which she said she had received “thousands”.
In the days that followed, Wood told fans that she had received “apologies from Snl“But she did not specify who they came or what was said. On Wednesday, she shared a photo of a bouquet of flowers and thanked Sherman for having sent her.
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During his conversation with AdditionalYang also made sure to rent Wood’s performance in season 3 of The white lotus. “Everyone has Snl is just a fan of the series, obviously a fan of her, “he said.” We just think she should be so proud of the work she has put in this season. “”
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Yang is in the middle of a press tour for The wedding banquet, The remake of Andrew Ahn of the classic cult of Ang Lee in 1993, which follows a group of besties that form a chosen family while they sail on the expectations of society and their identities. A scene from the film shows Yang Test how far he would go for comedy in everything won after an unexpected connection.
“It was something that for someone other thanrew ahn, I would have said:” Let’s talk about the cover “and” I’m not going to show Nip “and` I will not show butt ‘, recently Yang Entertainment every week. “I would have become really granular on this subject. But there was just something to play the comedy of this scene, which is such a shocking moment.”
He added: “You can say from the flat topography of my buttocks that I desensate everything.”
The wedding banquet is in theaters now.
