Aimee Lou Wood says starring in The White Lotus reminded her of what is most important.
The Stockport-born actress, 31, whose previous credits include Sex Education and Daddy Issues, played free-spirited Chelsea in the third series of the Emmy award-winning destination thriller.
Her character raised eyebrows as a Mancunian yoga teacher in a relationship with enigmatic much older man Rick (played by Walton Goggins).
The megahit show came to a dramatic conclusion on Sunday and in a new interview with GQ Hype, she explained how filming in Thailand for eight months made her realise how much she treasures her normal life.
She also began mentally began beating herself up over was whether or not she was taking her career seriously enough, especially being surrounded by “confident Americans”.
Gracing the cover of the magazine's latest edition, she explained: “I want to have a weekend. I want to be with my friends. I don't want to not be thinking about f*****g progressing my career for one second, because I don't even f*****g care about progressing my career. So it's like, why is all my energy going towards something I don't care about.”
She told the publication that at the back of her mind she has a fantasy where she “runs a bookshop in Cornwall” and her whereabouts “aren’t known at all times”.
“I think this is why I get really obsessed with having a baby, because if I have a baby, everyone will leave me the f**k alone! And I can’t have a baby for that reason. I’ve always wanted a cosy house and a baby and a fire. I just want that. That’s, the dream,” she said.
Elsewhere in the interview she also admitted to struggling with insecurities while on the show's set after a producer approached her at the end of the first week of filming.
She explained: “Someone told me how much Mike [White] had fought for me. They said 'it had to be you, no matter what HBO said.' It was honestly from the nicest place, but my little head goes: 'HBO didn't want me. And I know why HBO didn't want me, it's because I'm ugly.' Mike had to say ''Please let me have the ugly girl!''
“That was the thing that was in my head,” she added.
Read the full feature online at GQ Hype now.
