WOOD: She wasn’t a natural, I have to say. I didn’t have much of an intimate relationship, that was more my costar than me. WOOD: Speaking of goats, you’ve also worked with a goat. I don’t believe in vehicles I just ride my pony into town. Where is the closest coffee shop?ĪLEX SHARP: Oh, god. With the Sex Education officially renewed for a fourth season, Wood got on the phone with her friend, the British actor Alex Sharp, to discuss unlocking her character and where she might go from here.ĪIMEE LOU WOOD: It looks like you’ve gone to the coffee shop. As Aimee Gibbs, the ride-or-die to one of the series’ lead characters Maeve Wiley (Emma Mackey), the 26-year-old Manchester native has deftly navigated an arc that took her from a people-pleasing member of the popular clique at Moordale Secondary School, to a multi-dimensional young woman who, even as she reckons with the trauma of a sexual assault, manages to be a constant source of comic relief (the role earned Wood a BAFTA Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance). Playing the best friend can be a thankless role, but in a show as wise as the Netflix comedy Sex Education, and in the hands of an actor as appealing as Aimee Lou Wood, it can become transcendent.
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