'Sex Education' star Aimee Lou Wood on getting through lockdown and how sex on TV is changing

Get the Full Story"Sorry about that weird fart noise, it was my fridge, I promise." There are very few celebrities you'd feel comfortable even saying those words aloud to. But Aimee Lou Wood is different.

"I did think it sounded like an animal," the Sex Education star replies, unfazed by the prolonged groaning noises emitted by my fridge during our phone call, and deeply unbothered by the myriad technical difficulties that befall us as we try and fail to talk over Zoom.

Finally up and running, Wood and I chat about both of our experiences navigating virtual therapy sessions during the pandemic. Lockdown has, for her, been revelatory in many respects not least because it's offered her the chance to sit back and take stock. "When I was going to therapy back in the real world, I would go in and have an amazing session and I'd think: 'Wow, we really got somewhere there,'" she tells me. "But then everything would be slightly undone when I left and went straight into going to do my play." At the time lockdown was announced, Wood was starring in Uncle Vanya at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End. Read more...More about Uk, Netflix, Interviews, Sex Education, and Aimee Lou Wood

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