OvercompensatingstarsBenito SkinnerandWally Baramjoined writer/executive producerScott Kingon DeadlinesContenders TVstage Sunday.
Skinner and Baram play college freshmen Benny and Carmen, Benny still in the closet.
I had had two margaritas, trashed, Skinner said.
I told my boyfriend: Thats Charli XCX.
I want her to do the music for my show.
He was like, Feels kinda bold for a party, but go for it, live your life.
I think its why shes a true visionary and an artist, Skinner said.
She was like, Send me the script, babe.
I sent her the script, and she signed on to do the music on a Monday.
She hired my boyfriend to work with her on a Tuesday.
She doesnt play games.
That whirlwind reflects the college experience Skinner remembers.
Benny and Carmen meet at an awkward diversity orientation and become companions through their college experience.
Then youre completely heartbroken in your dorm room, eating ramen and crying.
That feels like college to me the highs of the drug and the comedown.
Skinner began writingOvercompensatingin 2020 during the pandemic.
He reflected on his own college experience where he met a woman who helped him come out.
I think it is that core relationship between gay men and women that really inspired me, he said.
It can be funny, but I feel like it really saved my life and changed my life.
Baram was a writer forOvercompensatingfirst.
Skinner revealed he saw her as Carmen all along, but it was Barams first acting gig.
No ones ever let me act before, she said.
No ones ever seen that in me.
Even when I didnt believe in myself, you believed in me.
King joked about how much older he is than Skinner and Baram.
The college experiences were very different, King said.
It was a very different time.
Back when I went, you didnt say gay.
It was so different.
There was this real commonality between what it is to overcompensate.
Were having the whole campus, every faculty member, everyone was overcompensating in some ways.
Overcompensatingpremieres May 15 onPrime Video.
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