Aimee Lou Wood Says She Felt 'Ugly' After Learning Her Casting Process

Aimee Lou Wood shared that after learning "White Lotus" creator Mike White had to fight to cast her she felt ugly. Find out why Tanya Rad thinks a lot of people can relate to this here

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
We will on Friday tell you about what's on our weekend.
Watch this that's a long way away. Mine is still
that John Ham show. I also started something else she
runs together. I think it's the The Mobster Show that's
gonna be all You with Piers Brosne. I can't remember
the names or where I see them, but we did
watch the White Lotus sets on Max. Season three is over.

(00:22):
If you haven't seen it, won't spoil it. Season four
rumbored to be in several different places, from Morocco to
the south of France. Not quite sure where yet. He
think it's to be a warm destination. Mobland was the
show Thank You that I'm talking about. But Amy lou
would she played Chelsea British, the British actress right, yes.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
And people know her. She has these amazing teeth and
I feel like she was one of the biggest standouts
from this season. But people are really honing in on
something that she said during an interview with GQ. She said,
someone told me how much Mike White, who is the
creator of the show, had fought for me. They said,
it has to be you. No matter what HBO said,

(01:02):
she remembered. So it was honestly from the nicest place.
But my little head goes, HBO didn't want me, And
I know why HBO didn't want me. It's because I'm ugly.
Mike had to say, please let me have the ugly girl.
And people are really resonating with this because everyone, I
feel like, has had an experience where you find yourself
kind of jumping to conclusions and tearing yourself down. You know.

(01:26):
She took that saying Mike White had to fight for
me no matter what HBO said, and she took it
as oh, it's because I'm ugly, which obviously was not
ever said, but like that's what we kind of internalized
those things. And I remember actually when I got this job,
they were telling me Ryan really thought for you, and
so I was like, oh, so who in management didn't
think that I belonged to here? Like that's how I

(01:47):
heard it, you know what I mean, Like, Oh, somebody
doesn't think I belong that Ryan had to fight for me.
And so it's like I just really resonated with what
she said, and people are like really giving her a
lot of love because I feel like everybody has been
there and done that, and like we always tear ourselves down,
which is like really sad.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I don't remember the pushback on you. I just remember
telling everyone that you do a great job and you
should be part of this family in the morning, and
don't call me otherwise.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
There was bad to them.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
There was pushback, but I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
But I kind of understand and relate to this because
when we read our comments or we're told something, all
we think about, all this stands out is the negative one.
That's all we can focus on, like what's wrong versus
Like when you go through your course of your day,
like at the end of the day, somebody says, how
was your day? It's the one thing that sucked that
you want that you do end up saying how your

(02:42):
day was, not the five other things that actually went well. Yeah,
we have a natural some of us. Why in your
narrative to focus on the negative? Does it feel like
we're bragging if we go on and on about all
the good in our life? I think it was hard
on ourselves. Yeah, hard on myself.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
And you know they say like if you if you give,
if you're like gratitude, you practice gratitude every single day,
that it really changes your mindset. I think that's why,
because I feel like it's your natural instinct to focus
on like the negative, and if you like reprogram your
head to be grateful and focus on the positive, it
can like really have a huge impact.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Kelly Ripper used to always say after the Live with
Kelly and Ryan show at the time, now it's Mark,
but she used to always say, I would go, well,
you know when first started, how was that was that show?
How was that show? How do you think that show was?
And she'd go, It's never as good as you think
or as bad as you think. And I thought those
words to live by. Yeah, I'm never as good as
I think I am. Maybe never as bad as I

(03:36):
think I am. E right for sure?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
There, Yeah,