THE Sex Education star was candid about how her dream role "almost killed" her. Aimee Lou Wood, who rose to fame after her role in Netflix's Sex Education , opened up about her next big role and overcoming stage fright. The 29-year-old told Radio Times magazine all about her next big role in series three of The White Lotus.
The Manchester -born actress revealed how she experimented with her American accent on the series. Aimee said: "My character was meant to be American and then I did a self-tape, one in an American accent and one in my own. "They were like, ‘Yeah, we want your own voice’ so my character is going to be from Manchester!” read more on sex education She also opened up about how she is scared to do more theatre productions and how she deals with stage fright.
Aimee revealed: “Years ago, an actor told me, ‘It’s really important to keep going back to theatre, because otherwise you’ll develop a fear for it, you’ll get stage fright,’ but after Cabaret, I am scared [Wood played the role of Sally Bowles at London’s Playhouse Theatre in 2023]. "I loved it, it was my dream role and it changed me as a person, but it almost killed me. Going on Sally’s journey every night was hard.
“I felt like I was naked on stage. Afterwards, people would say I was great, and I was thinking, ‘I wasn’t pretending, I was actually just screaming and crying and having a breakdown.’ Most read in Streaming "The line between reality and fiction always gets blurred,.