Aimee Lou Wood is likely one of the most fearless – and likeable – actresses of her technology. Her star flip in Sex Education cemented her as a brand new display kween and her no f**** given angle to portraying intercourse on TV had us from her opening scene (sure, full-on intercourse).
Images, Mollie Rose; Styling, Emma Lane; Make up, Emily Wood utilizing Tropic Skincare; Hair, Patrick Wilson at Caren Company utilizing Bumble & Bumble and GHD Hair ; Images Assistant, Sasha Vanner. Aimee wears: Swimsuit, DAKS, Shirt and Tie, Stylist’s Personal
What we love most about Aimee is how candid she is in relation to sharing her experiences of consuming issues and physique dysmorphia, and the way she hopes to empower girls in every single place by shattering taboos round feminine sexuality.
As we gear up for Sex Education season three dropping, Aimee has spoken frankly about her experiences with consuming issues and the way her relationship along with her physique picture modified after filming the intercourse scenes in Sex Education, enjoying Aimee Gibbs.
Talking on Make It Reign, the sensible new podcast hosted by journalist and presenter, Josh Smith, Aimee opens up about filming THAT solo intercourse scene and discusses the way it initially left her with “vulnerability hangover” however trying again now she is so proud the scenes portrayed feminine pleasure in a sensible, non-airbrushed approach.
Aimee on her ‘vulnerability hangover’ after filming her Sex Education masterbation scene
“Now I look again, I’m going, “Wow, that was nice.” On the time that it occurred, I used to be completely cacking my pants. I did the masturbationscene. Then the intimacy coordinator, Ita, stated, “Typically you will really feel fairly exhilarated after you’ve got simply carried out the intercourse scene, after which a day later or two days later you get a little bit of a vulnerability hangover and you are like, ‘Shit!'” So she checks in on us both a day or two days after we have filmed it to see how we’re feeling.
“On that one, I used to be completely nice after the primary intercourse scene, and I used to be nice with all the different stuff, after which on that one… She stated that masturbation ones generally is a lot tougher as a result of it is you by your self, you do not have one other actor to bounce off, I imply, actually bounce off. So you do not have that particular person there to joke with and provides reassurance to. It is simply you, and it is fairly intense… A few days later I used to be like, “Oh my god!” So many worries had been ignited – you try to separate your self from the character as a lot as doable in these scenes, so you do not really feel such as you’re watching your self wank such as you do in your bloody bed room as a result of that’s not what you need hundreds of thousands of individuals to see.”
Aimee on how Sex Education encourage her to go to remedy
“I’ve modified immensely since doing Sex Education. I all the time put it right down to remedy as to why I am a lot extra susceptible and trustworthy with my emotions. However truly, I feel the one cause why I even began going to remedy within the first place was due to Sex Education, as a result of I noticed how a lot remedy enhanced folks’s lives in that present, and the way a lot folks wanted it. It actually did simply open one thing up in me that was undoubtedly slammed shut.”
Aimee on the troubles of remedy and triggering materials
“I feel remedy can be a little bit of a bizarre factor, as a result of it is wonderful, and I feel it is so very important, and it is helped me in so some ways, however it additionally does uncover issues that you just most likely would by no means normally as a result of it is like a bloody excavation. It is like unrooting all the things. And (in the mean time) I am going, “Why did I ever begin this? I might have carried on residing in blissful ignorance.” I am in fairly a troublesome stage of it proper now, as a result of it is correctly attending to the great things. I feel that so long as I simply hold going there and hold being courageous in that approach, by the tip I’ll get there.
“It is like after I get a guide, I am going to purchase a guide, I am going to assume, “Oh, that guide will actually assist me.” One thing like, The Imp of the Thoughts, about OCD, or Mad Woman by Bryony Gordon. And I am going to begin studying them and it will begin to set off me, after all. When you’re referring to it, it’ll be triggering or stirring indirectly. I am going to cease bloody studying them, as a result of I am going to go, “Oh my god, that is too scary and too actual.” Truly even then I’ve to go, “No, drive your self to learn it, since you’ll get to the bit the place she’s okay. You may get to the bit the place Bryony’s like, ‘Yeah, all this shit stuff did occur, however now I am completely satisfied, and now I am the perfect I’ve ever been.'” I feel for me, it is simply actually about hanging in there with all that self exploration stuff, and never simply taking the exit route, go and get it carried out.”
Aimee of serving to others by discussing her points with physique picture and turning into the function mannequin she by no means had
“I get messages from ladies saying it’s helped them a lot, me speaking about my consuming issues and I by no means had that. I might google ‘actresses with consuming issues’ and nothing would come up. I additionally get so many messages even about my enamel with ladies saying, ‘Oh my god, I’ve enamel like yours. I used to be going to get braces, and now I am not anymore.’ I used to look that frantically, ‘actresses with overbites,’ ‘actresses with hole enamel.’ Pondering, as a result of I don’t see them wherever, am I actually going to pursue a profession in appearing earlier than I get a bloody Invisalign?”
Aimee on filming Sex Education
“The day within the detention scene when all the women talked it was actually artwork imitating life. We had been all having that type of group remedy session when the cameras weren’t rolling, and then when the cameras had been rolling – it was simply this unbelievable parallel – it was overwhelming, however a great way, and really cathartic. When it obtained to the scene the place they had been all ready for me to get on the bus, I imply, we had been all critically in tatters.”
It’s the information we’ve been ready for since devouring the second season of Sex Education in a single weekend: it’s coming again for season three. Hurrah!
The hit teen drama, which garnered over 40 million viewers after its debut in 2019, has loved huge success worldwide on account of its trustworthy, eye-opening and inclusive portrayal of intercourse and sexuality. Discover out all the main points in our final season Three information.