Benito Skinner is digging deep for his starring TV debut.
The actor and comic not too long ago opened up about Overcompensating, his upcoming Prime Video sequence wherein he performs “a model of myself within the closet” throughout his faculty years.
“I’m so excited. I simply obtained again,” mentioned Skinner whereas showing on Jake Shane’s Therapuss podcast. “It was a extremely, actually unbelievable expertise. I really feel like I discovered a lot about myself and the best way I make issues, and I used to be so impressed by working with the forged.
“I simply dissociated so many instances as a result of I’d be like, ‘I wrote this scene 4 and half years in the past and now I’m seeing an actor that I’ve revered my complete life doing it, and I’m sort of me however probably not me and Mary Beth [Barone] sort of seems like my sister however it’s probably not her,’” he added.
Created by Skinner, Overcompensating is a college-set ensemble comedy concerning the wild, chaotic journey of Benny (Skinner), a closeted former soccer participant and homecoming king, as he turns into quick associates with Carmen, a highschool outsider on a mission to slot in in any respect prices. With steering from Benny’s older sister and her campus-legend boyfriend, Benny and Carmen juggle horrible hookups, flavored vodka and faux IDs. Deeply humorous and private, the present explores the lengths to which all of us overcompensate whereas on the trail to discovering out who we actually are.
Skinner defined, “I used to be impressed by the emotions and what occurred in faculty to me. After which from there — I really feel prefer it’s not that fascinating to write down a personality that’s somebody precisely such as you. They don’t actually bounce off the web page. And it’s not as enjoyable, it’s extra enjoyable to think about like, ‘Properly, right here’s this new vessel of an thought you need or a sense you need or a relationship you need. Construct a personality out of that.’ So, it’s impressed by a variety of issues.”
“I believe it’s additionally the OCD factor of attempting to be excellent, and I believed ‘excellent’ meant ‘straight,’” he added. “So I’d do something to stay within the closet. Like, I did all the things to do it, after which I simply sort of ran out of concepts as a result of I fell in love with a man.”
Along with Skinner and his Experience podcast co-host Barone, the sequence additionally stars Connie Britton, Kyle MacLachlan, Adam DiMarco, Owen Thiele, Charli XCX and Kaia Gerber. After first getting into improvement in 2022, Amazon gave a sequence order to the present from A24 and Jonah Hill’s Sturdy Child Productions with Charli to provide unique music.
