Aimee Lou Wood on The White Lotus, the Beatles biopic and stepping out of her comfort zone: 'The moment you play it safe, you’re done'

Aimee Lou Wood believes in astrology — just not quite as blindly as she once did. “I allow astrology to guide a lot of my life,” she says, cheerfully, before catching herself. Because somewhere between arriving in Thailand to film The White Lotus and leaving seven months later, something shifted.

Playing Chelsea, a woman who moves through life as though everything is preordained, made her question that instinctive trust in the stars. “Playing her made me go, ‘Okay, let's just make sure that we don't get too obsessed with astrology’, because look what happened to Chelsea… so I'm like, because she thought everything was fate, and she thought everything was written out in the stars, and that she didn't have any free will and that she didn't have any agency — she died.”