Aimee Lou Wood was born in Stockport (England) 31 years ago. The actress, who has reached her peak of popularity in 2025 as one of the , grew up in the small town of Bramhall (about 17,500 inhabitants) with her parents, who divorced when she was little, mainly due to her father’s problems with alcohol and drugs. Acting was her life of escape, according to the interpreter in a published this Thursday, November 6. “Acting has always been a refuge for me where I can express my feelings,” he tells the magazine. However, her role as the likeable Chelsea in The White Lotus It also made him relive past traumas related to his physique, and no, it has nothing to do with him. The idea of continually filming in a bikini, she says, made her relive the painful body dysmorphia she suffered in her adolescence. “I shook off that feeling by thinking, ‘It’s not about whether Aimee wants to show her body or not; Chelsea does,” she confesses of her character, whose main trait is her unwavering optimism.
The British actress has never hidden that her teeth were the target of ridicule during her childhood and adolescence. They called him Bugs Bunny and laughed at his accent. She also had to revive something similar after her growing success, such as when comedian Sarah Sherman parodied her in a sketch of Saturday Night Live with exaggerated prosthetic teeth. The legendary program after she described it as “cruel and unfunny.” However, it is one more example of what it means to immerse yourself fully in the whirlwind of Hollywood, especially if you come from humble roots like Lou Wood’s. “Los Angeles seems emotionally bulimic to me, and I say that as an exbulimic,” she is honest in the new interview. “It’s a huge adventure where everyone talks about you constantly and you have to talk about yourself all the time. And then I leave, and I feel like throwing it all up,” she admits.
For this reason, she prefers to continue living in southeast London. According to what she says in the interview, her ideal day would be to wake up late in her apartment, have a coffee and take a walk before spending the afternoon reading or watching movies, while her boyfriend—also British actor Adam Long, 34—prepares a slow-cooked roast and hides his cell phone from her. “A day to disconnect from the world and relax. That’s all I want,” he longs. And the interpreter doesn’t stop working. This Friday, November 7, it premieres Movie Club, a BBC series in which he stars alongside Nabhaan Rizwan. In addition, he is participating in seven other projects that are in pre-production or post-production phases, including The Idiotsa black humor film based on the life of , Fyodor Dostoevsky’s wife: “That has been, without a doubt, my favorite job. I come off worse than ever in front of the camera, but at no point during the filming did I feel self-conscious. It was a very safe and creative set,” she says.
Lou Wood now takes the opportunity to talk openly about mental and physical health. Last April, he told , where he has three million followers, that he had been diagnosed with ADHD with autistic traits, something that changed his life when it came to knowing how to manage it. For example, he says in the interview that he began to feel panic during the filming of a scene for another of his upcoming films, Anxious Peoplein which he shares a cast, because too many crew members were yelling at him. So he asked for calm to concentrate: a single direction, a single voice, no movement of hands in his field of vision. “For years I felt unable to say something like that for fear of seeming confrontational, but now I feel like I can take responsibility for what I need to improve and tell others what isn’t working for me,” she confesses. He says Jolie gave him the thumbs up: “She’s possibly the most famous woman in history, but she’s so normal.”
She has also spoken openly in the past about her body image issues. In one in 2023, when she became known, above all, for her role as the sweet Aimee Gibbs in the series Sex Educationopened up about her eating disorders, which began while she was training at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. “Your body becomes a kind of enemy. I was so disconnected from my body when I suffered from eating disorders that it was as if I were outside of it, examining it with a magnifying glass. Little by little I am overcoming it,” she said before interrupting the meeting to cry, as the journalist described. “I thought it was the comments about my physique that caused me to relapse. But now I realize that it wasn’t the comments, but rather ignoring them with a smile. I didn’t tell people to stop talking to me like that. I expressed it later, through the indirect manifestation of my eating disorder,” Lou Wood said at the time. Two years later, she is proud of not hiding her problems from her bosses, from television shows, or from her fans.
