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‘Overcompensating’s Benito Skinner On The Letter He Wrote Megan Fox & Kyle MacLachlan’s Charli XCX Fandom: “He Was Always A Brat”
With his onscreen starring debut in 'Overcompensating', Benito Skinner tells Deadline he wanted to immerse viewers the gay millennial experience.
Created by Skinner, the TikTok star plays Benny, a college freshman trying to fit in with a very heteronormative group of friends while attempting to come to terms with his sexuality. But I feel so fortunate it was Lukas, cause he came in for a week, and that scene in the car was so hard to do, but I think the fact that we knew each other and had chemistry and just felt immediately comfortable, it made it really powerful for me and for him as well. I’m just gonna send it.” And I’m very fortunate to work with Scott King, who’s the showrunner, who read it and was like, “I am cackling at this Megan s—.” It’s just this feeling that I had in college where I would go into these frat house bathrooms, and all my icons are on the wall, and I’m talking to EmRata and Megan Fox and Tyra Banks, and I’m like, “What are you girls doing in here?” And we needed that somebody for Benny to talk to while he and Carmen are kind of fighting and sparring, and he’s made this horrible lie and and gets caught.
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