Our fave Stockportian actress Aimee Lou Wood drops some major teases for 'The White Lotus' season three – and tells us about her fave music by Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Lianne La Havas.
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00:00It's a wellness centre. You should get a facial.
00:03Rick, the lady in the airport thought you were my dad.
00:06Hi, I'm Alex from NME and today we're joined by a very special guest
00:09from the new season of The White Lotus.
00:11It's Amy Lee Wood. How are you doing?
00:13Hi, good thank you. How are you?
00:14I'm good.
00:15Have you heard the new intro banger for this season?
00:17Yeah, it's amazing.
00:18Yeah.
00:19I mean, it's so, it's such a banger.
00:21But it always was going to be. It's inevitable.
00:23I mean, The White Lotus theme tune.
00:26And I was saying as well, bring theme tunes back.
00:28Exactly, yeah.
00:29Do you remember when I was younger, everything had a theme tune.
00:32And then it kind of went away.
00:34Well, so you can skip it on Netflix, that's the thing.
00:36I know, and we shouldn't be allowed.
00:38It's one of the best parts of the experience.
00:41And especially on The White Lotus.
00:43And like here, I was saying before that me and Nick, who plays Zion,
00:47we were like walking back to our rooms one night in this hotel
00:49and there was a wedding going on.
00:51And on the wind, the theme tune came.
00:53Like we could hear, they were dancing to the theme tune.
00:55From a different wedding.
00:56And we were like, such a magical moment.
00:58I had no idea you were there.
00:59That's so funny.
01:00Such a magical moment.
01:01I was actually chatting to Natasha Rothwell just now, who plays Belinda.
01:04And she said that at the wrap party,
01:07they were playing all of the different seasons.
01:09Do you have a favourite?
01:10I feel like season two was the one that was like,
01:12you could really get like, and I remember the first time that happened.
01:16Because I feel like it didn't actually happen, that switch,
01:18until like maybe episode three or four.
01:20And then this other bit kicked in and I was like, whoa, okay.
01:23But I think that's the most fun to dance to.
01:26But I just remember hearing it for the first time
01:29and being like, this is good.
01:32Like in season one, I was like, oh my God, I love this.
01:35Strong start, strong opening to this show
01:38that I knew nothing about, but I loved the theme tune.
01:40How of your friends and family,
01:42who was the most excited when you told them you were going to be in the show?
01:45Everyone was pretty excited.
01:47I think it's probably the most excited everyone has been.
01:50Because it's the thing that like everyone's seen.
01:53So like my mates, but also my family,
01:56like it's kind of, it was quite,
01:59I mean, my best friend bought me a bucket hat
02:01that said these gays are trying to murder me.
02:03Because we're that obsessed with the show
02:05and that obsessed with Jennifer in the show.
02:07And then I sent Mike a picture of me wearing that hat,
02:10like the day I found out I got the part.
02:12And he was like, oh my God.
02:13But like, I am an actual super fan.
02:15And so are all my friends.
02:17So it was, everyone was pretty excited.
02:20Did you ever run into anyone like Jennifer Coolidge from the show
02:23when you were doing that sort of awards parties circuit?
02:26No, I didn't.
02:27I would, I hope to meet Jennifer
02:29and just tell her how much I love her.
02:31But I kind of know Leo from season two.
02:35Yeah, Leo Woodall.
02:36Yeah, and he, that was really helpful
02:39because he was, he knows what the experience is like.
02:42So he was checking me.
02:43And what an experience for Leo in that show.
02:45What an experience.
02:46But he was checking in like every now and then
02:49while I was in Thailand, like,
02:50hey Amy, just checking in, how you doing?
02:52And that was really helpful to know someone.
02:55And then I think on like the fourth time he checked in,
02:57I was like, I'm not okay.
02:59And I just had this whole thing
03:01and he was so good at the perspective thing.
03:03But it was also amazing having Natasha there.
03:05She's experienced it before.
03:07So like, it was, that felt very like anchoring.
03:11What are you getting upset about as well?
03:13Yeah, she's been through it and this is just the way it goes.
03:16And it's just, this is that point that we're at
03:19in the kind of social experiment thing
03:21where these things start happening
03:22and it's normal and it's fine.
03:24So any kind of perspective like that was really helpful.
03:26Was it just the intensity of the shooting
03:28because you were out there for so long
03:29that was overwhelming?
03:30Or was it the story or?
03:31I think it was a mix of everything.
03:33And like the lack of distance,
03:36because usually you wrap and you go home.
03:37Yeah.
03:38You don't wrap and walk like five steps
03:40and be like, night, into your room.
03:42Like you are living while you're filming.
03:44Like it is the Truman Show.
03:45It is actually starts to feel like the Truman Show.
03:48Like you're like, is anything real?
03:50Like you're on the most beautiful beach
03:51but then there's lights over there
03:52and you kind of go in like,
03:53everything just feels like a set.
03:55And so there's no distance.
03:58So it all starts to get a little bit,
03:59which is probably why like the performances
04:01in the past two seasons,
04:02I understand now why they're so,
04:03because the lines get very blurred
04:06and it all gets quite claustrophobic.
04:07And so you have to kind of like,
04:10really rely on each other to keep sane.
04:13Yeah.
04:14Because it is a bit like Big Brother
04:15or something like that.
04:16Like it really is.
04:17Less C-list celebs.
04:19Yeah.
04:20Like the A-list version of whatever,
04:22you know, all these Hollywood actors
04:24in Big Brother.
04:26It feels so odd.
04:27So your character, Chelsea,
04:28has got some great lines.
04:29My favourite is when she's been hit on by the pool
04:32and someone says,
04:33how do you get a drink around here?
04:34And she goes,
04:35you walk up to the bar and you ask for one.
04:36Yeah.
04:37I also saw an interview that you did
04:38with Nicola Coughlin on Capital Radio
04:41and you said that lots of the things I say in the show,
04:44I've said in real life.
04:46Is that one of them?
04:47I wish that was one of them.
04:49I wish I was as cool as Chelsea
04:51to just reply to someone like that.
04:53Like, but I have not.
04:55I wish that was one of them.
04:56But you do have it in your locker now.
04:58I do.
04:59I do.
05:00And I love that line too
05:01because she's so,
05:02she's just,
05:03she seems so sweet
05:04and then you're like,
05:05oh actually,
05:06she's also not to be messed with.
05:07So I love that about her.
05:08I think the cosmos brought us together.
05:10I'm going to help you bring your joy back.
05:12Oh, wait.
05:13Slow down.
05:14Why are rich men always so angry?
05:16Are you,
05:17or were you,
05:18before shooting,
05:19a Blackpink stan?
05:20No.
05:21But you are now.
05:22I am just,
05:23but that's not because,
05:24that's just because I'm so,
05:25I'm like 82 on the inside.
05:28Like I don't know any,
05:30like things that are modern.
05:33I'm still not a Blackpink stan,
05:35but I am a Lisa stan
05:37because she's so cool
05:39and she's so down to earth
05:40and she's so,
05:42like you would never ever think
05:44that she had this stratospheric level of fame.
05:47Like,
05:48she's so down to earth.
05:50Let me come to your level on the music side then,
05:52if you are indeed 82 on the inside.
05:54Probably actually a bit old for this,
05:56but as a born and bred Stockport girl,
05:58I think,
05:59are you excited about Oasis reuniting?
06:01So,
06:02yeah,
06:03I am
06:04because it just feels nostalgic
06:05and it feels,
06:06like my friend sent me this thing the other day,
06:08and apparently people are already going
06:10to the park in Manchester
06:11and burying drugs
06:13for when they go there.
06:14So it's like,
06:15it just feels,
06:16I mean,
06:17organized.
06:18Yeah,
06:19it feels very chaotic.
06:20It feels like,
06:21you know,
06:22that whole kind of like
06:2390s,
06:24noughties chaos
06:25feels like it's coming like,
06:26just talking about like the,
06:27like the Robbie Williams movie
06:28and all of that stuff.
06:29Like,
06:30it feels quite nostalgic at the moment.
06:32I don't think Noel and Liam
06:33will bring a monkey out on stage though,
06:34will they?
06:35No,
06:36but you never know.
06:37It's a good idea,
06:38isn't it?
06:39What did you think when you first saw that?
06:40Haven't,
06:41haven't watched it yet,
06:42but I'm really desperate to see it
06:43and I actually think it's a really good idea.
06:44Yeah.
06:45Yeah.
06:46Obviously,
06:47we're in a me,
06:48so we like to ask this question
06:49to everyone we interview,
06:50but is there an album
06:51that you always go back to?
06:52I mean,
06:53Blue,
06:54Joni Mitchell.
06:55Yeah,
06:56I mean,
06:57that is a classic,
06:58yeah.
06:59That is kind of my,
07:00I always go back to that
07:01probably the most,
07:02but also,
07:03Liam LaHavis' first album.
07:04Yeah.
07:05Can't remember what it was called,
07:06but you actually cannot go wrong
07:08with that album.
07:09Tapestry's pretty.
07:10Yeah.
07:11Yeah.
07:12Yeah.
07:13Carole King.
07:14Yeah.
07:15Yeah.
07:16Yeah.
07:17I did see a clip of you,
07:18I think you posted it on your Instagram
07:19at some point,
07:20of you doing a little performance
07:21of a Black Eyed Peas song,
07:22I think,
07:23when you were really young.
07:24I was obsessed with that album.
07:25What was that one called?
07:26Is it Elefunk?
07:27Yeah.
07:28Yeah,
07:29and I honestly,
07:30like,
07:31that,
07:32that whole,
07:33that was all I did
07:34when I was little.
07:35I just pretended
07:36to be on The X Factor,
07:37and I sung Black Eyed Peas songs
07:38as my auditions.
07:39Are you a Fergie super fan,
07:40then?
07:41Was that it,
07:42or was it all of them?
07:43It was all of them.
07:44It was the whole thing,
07:45but I actually wrote down
07:46in my notebook,
07:47once,
07:48I wrote the lyrics
07:49to Where Is The Love,
07:50and my dad found it
07:51and was like,
07:52baby,
07:53this is good.
07:54Have you written this?
07:55Have we?
07:56And I was like,
07:57yeah.
07:58I was,
07:59I must have been like,
08:00eight or seven,
08:01but he thought I'd written it.
08:02He just believes in you.
08:03He thought it was a poem
08:04because I always loved
08:05writing poems as a kid,
08:06and then,
08:07so he was reading.
08:08I mean,
08:09why was he going
08:10through my journal?
08:11But that's a whole other thing,
08:12but he was like,
08:13baby,
08:14this is good,
08:15you know?
08:16This is good.
08:17And there was another time
08:18that I was listening
08:19to Regina Spector
08:20in my room,
08:21and he thought it was me singing.
08:22Came in like,
08:23bloody hell,
08:24that voice,
08:25babe.
08:26Why does he keep thinking
08:27that these things are me?
08:28They're not me.
08:29But yeah,
08:30Where Is The Love,
08:31oh,
08:32profound.
08:33That's great.
08:34Thanks so much, Chang Twiss.
08:35Thank you so much.