The novelty of The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood's natural smile

"I love your teeth. You're from England, right?" French-Canadian actress Charlotte Le Bon's character asks her co-star Aimee Lou Wood's character in an early episode of the drama series The White Lotus 3.

- Madison Malone Kircher

NEW YORK -

Wood's smile is broad, beautiful and something of a novelty these days — both among her castmates and in a broader sea of actors with straight, evenly spaced teeth having been apparently willed into submission by orthodontics or cosmetic modification.

The line, which Le Bon improvised, turned out to be prescient.

Online, viewers of the Max show have also begun praising Wood, 31, who is indeed from England, for choosing to keep her natural smile.

The praise has also prompted a question: When did everyone's teeth get so perfect?

Ms Emma Dickson, 30, said seeing Wood onscreen felt "comforting".

Like Wood, she has a gap between her front teeth.

As an actor and medical aesthetician, Ms Dickson, who lives in Chicago, was all too familiar with the pressure to have flawless pearly whites. She described the style of veneers that are so ubiquitous in Hollywood as the "copy-and-paste smile" and said she was saddened when celebrities with teeth resembling her own appeared to correct them.