Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Benito Skinner Reveals His Biggest Motivation to Make a Second Season of Overcompensating

Benito Skinner thinks the biggest motivation to make a 2nd season of his hit sitcom Overcompensating...might be the storyline of a side character...

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, Benito Skinner's hit sitcom
over Compensating has an incredibly talented principal cast and incredible cameos,
including Charlie XCX and com maclachlin.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
But nobody's responsible for more lass than the character Haley,
Benny's best friend, Carmen's party eleven roommate, a type that
every college alum knows, played to perfection by the comedian
simply known as Holmes and Benito. Thanks witnessing the further
exploits of Haley is reason enough to green light a
season two. He tells Indie Wire, There's so much more
to say overall, but don't you also just want to

(00:31):
see Haley on spring break? That's all I'm gonna say.
Holmes is so brilliant and she's incredible at improv. I
feel like I knew that with the actor I chose,
so I wanted her to run with it. I had
so much fun writing that character. Whenever she was on camera,
I was like, go to town, Haley. Haley took over
and it was just so so fun to watch. That's
over Compensating creator Benito's Skinner on harnessing the talent of

(00:52):
his co star Holmes, Season one streaming on Prime that's
direct from Hollywood.