Aimee Lou Wood

“So I’m starting with my ultimate, which is Broadcast News. It’s the love of my life. This movie, to me, is perfect. Holly Hunter is the most exceptional, strange, exquisite creature. That line, when she screams, “This is important to me!” is something that just runs through my head every single day. I’m so captivated by her in everything that she does. It basically made me want to be her and have her life and go and help my friend pick what tie he should wear. It’s the best film ever, so I’m keeping that.”

“To go now full romance, Cold War. This film reverberated in me for months after I watched it. I think that she is also the most magnetic person and the dance, when she dances around that bar, I just fell in love.”

“Okay, I actually saw a few over here. I saw two of my favorite movies next to each other. It was Thelma & Louise. Geena Davis. Aquarius queen. Like me. And I have had the comparison a few times, that I’m a bit Geena Davis. And I think that is partly because this had such an influence on me as a kid. It was, like, one of the first proper movies that I watched, and I loved, of course, the platonic love story. My friends are everything to me. Their outfits as well, to just be really shallow. It’s the best.”

“And then next to it– There was something next to it. Petite maman. This is the sweetest, most haunting, beautiful film and it just tears me apart because it’s just… mums. Mums. Anything about mums just gets me right in the ticker. Because I love my mum. I’ve got her name tattooed on my arm. I also love Portrait of a Lady on Fire, so I love all of her movies and she’s just one of my faves.”

“The Big Chill… Oops. …is one of my mum’s favorite films. And these are the kind of movies that we would watch when I was growing up. And I really miss this vibe of film. It’s actually very Chekhovian. It’s just people in a house and people loving each other and people falling out of love with each other and the history and the complicated, gnarly dynamics that a group of friends have when they’ve known each other that long. And it’s also just an incredible cast. So yeah, this is a goodie.”

“Where’s Moonstruck? Right. Favorite film. Actually Broadcast News is. But equal top. Cher, what the hell? That performance, the single tear in the opera. And she’s the most beautiful person that’s ever lived. And the kicking the can. It actually made me want to step up my acting game when I watched Cher in this. There’s a groundedness to her that I found just awe-inspiring. So, Moonstruck.”

“Punch-Drunk Love, specifically for the phone call that Philip Seymour Hoffman makes. It blew my mind. He is my favorite actor of all time. It’s also got Shelley Duvall singing on the soundtrack, who I love and feel an affinity to. And Olive Oyl in Popeye, the “He Needs Me” song, genius use of it. So, love.”

“Funny Girl. Funny Girl! Babs. Love her. Love her. And, really weird, the other day I started singing “People” from Funny Girl and the lady I was working with was like, “Why are you singing that song?” And I said, “I don’t know. It just came to me.” And it was the song that her husband… It was the first ever song her husband played for her when she went back to his house on the night that they met. And they’ve been together ever since. And I randomly picked up on that energy and started singing “People.” But I remember watching it when I was younger and just relating hard to it all, of feeling like the funny one, but who wanted to be the pretty romantic lead, but felt like I was destined to be the weird, Funny Girl. But I love the weird, funny girls. Now I understand that that’s the way to do it. It’s actually the best thing to be.”

“And I’ve also got this down because, when we were doing White Lotus, a lot of us rewatched these. So, I always related to the first one the most. And then it was quite a big moment when I realized I now relate to the second one more and I’ve grown up, and there’ll be a day that the third one will resonate with me more, and it just feels like it’s a trilogy that you grow with. So I’ll take The Before Trilogy with me home.”