The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has criticised a Saturday Night Live sketch in which she was impersonated by a comedian using exaggerated prosthetic teeth as “mean and unfunny”.

The actress, 31, said the show “punched down” and implied the sketch, which starred the Saturday Night Live cast member Sarah Sherman, was sexist.

In a post on Instagram, Wood wrote that while she had no issue with being made fun of “when it’s clever and in good spirits”, there “must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way” of doing it.

Aimee Lou Wood previously said the focus on her teeth had gone too far

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The Stockport-born actress, who has shot to fame as a result of the hit HBO series, said she had since received apologies from Saturday Night Live (SNL).

She has previously spoken