Amazon Prime’s “Overcompensating” dropped on Could 15 to loving evaluations and enthusiastic fan help — and its creator/star Benito Skinner is prepared for a second lap.
“There’s a lot extra to say,” Skinner advised IndieWire on the purple carpet of on the TV Gotham Awards. “And likewise, don’t you wish to see Hailee on spring break? That’s all I’m gonna say.”
Within the sequence, Skinner performs closeted jock, Benny Scanlon, who’s attempting to navigate his freshman 12 months of faculty. Hailee is his party-loving roommate, performed by Holmes.
“[Holmes is] so sensible and … she’s unbelievable at improv. So, I really feel like I knew that with the individual I selected. So, I needed her to run with it. I really feel like I had a lot enjoyable writing that character,” Skinner stated. “When she was in, I used to be like, ‘Go to fucking city’ … Haley took over, and it was simply so, so enjoyable to observe.”
“Overcompensating” pulled in high-profile cameos for its first season from the likes of Kyle MacLachlan, Connie Britton, and Charli xcx. The supporting forged consists of Corteon Moore, who performs Gabe, who stated the present deserves a second season as a result of there’s nothing else prefer it on tv.
“I don’t bear in mind the final time I laughed so laborious, and I stand by the truth that now we have dumb jokes. And I don’t assume individuals are doing dumb jokes in addition to Benny and [writer] Scott King pulled off on the present,” Moore advised IndieWire on the purple carpet. So, I believe we have to deliver again silly humor, and I believe silly humor executed by actually sensible individuals. So, if we get a second season, we get an entire bunch extra of that.”
“Overcompensating” relies on Skinner’s actual life. He expanded on the present’s genesis in an IndieWire interview final month.
“The preliminary concept [came from] the connection I had with a girl in faculty,” Skinner stated. “I went to high school at Georgetown, and I used to be within the closet after I bought there. I met this girl who I believe actually modified my life in numerous methods, and she or he was the primary individual I got here out to, in order that was sort of like the unique concept for the present. Then, I stored eager about this concept of overcompensating and attempting to be one thing that you simply assume different individuals need you to be. I felt like faculty was the proper setting, as a result of that’s the place I used to be doing a lot overcompensating.”
Watch IndieWire’s dialog with Skinner and Moore beneath.