Sex Education Star Aimee Lou Wood on the Power of Female Pleasure, Her Love for RuPaul’s D
Sex Education Star Aimee Lou Wood on the Power of Female Pleasure, Her Love for RuPaul’s Drag Race, and the Iconic “My Ham!” LineAimee Gibbs. She’s a Scabby Queen who loves ham. She doesn’t really know where anything is because she just sort of arrives places. Most importantly, by the end of Sex Education, she’s a young woman who knows what she wants. And Aimee Lou Wood, the young actor who portrays the hilarious, gregarious teen on the breakout Netflix series, is just so pleased to have brought the character to life.Raised in the Northwest of England, Wood was a self-described “strange child” while growing up. While she’s been in a number of stage productions, Sex Education was her first on-screen role. Her character, Aimee, starts the series off with a bang, quite literally, which helps set the tone for the extremely realistic yet uproarious dramedy. In fact, Aimee is the one to credit for the genesis of the entire Moordale sex clinic — if it weren’t for her wondering “where’s the spunk, Adam,” BFF Maeve would never have concocted the genius plan to turn Otis’s “sex wizard” knowledge into a business.Wood recently spoke with Teen Vogue about the Netflix series that has everyone talking (and laughing, and perhaps some cringing). She opened up about improvising a few of her most meme’d lines, becoming a symbol for female self-pleasure, getting tagged on Instagram by her favorite drag queens, and more.Continue reading: Netflix -- source link
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