Charli XCX Lands Role in Benito Skinner Series ‘Overcompensating’

Charli XCX will step in front of the camera in the forthcoming comedy series Overcompensating. Created by comedian and actor Benito Skinner, the Prime Video show previously enlisted the singer as executive music producer. In a celebratory Instagram post about wrapping on season one, Skinner teased more to come from everyone’s favorite Brat: “Oh and if you thought @charli_xcx was only doing the music…”

Skinner shared a carousel of images from the process of creating the series. In the final shot, Charli is pictured seated on set with a script in her hand. She will make her special guest appearance in the company of series regulars Wally Baram, Mary Beth Barone, Adam DiMarco, Rish Shah, and Skinner himself. There’s also a recurring cast ensemble that includes Connie Britton, Kyle MacLachlan, Kaia Gerber, Julia Shiplett, Tommy Do, Alexandra Beaton, Claire Qute, Elias Azimi, and Maddie Phillips.

“This cast and crew are my heroes and they made this little thing in my head so big, so funny, so sad, so beautiful, and dare I say… so sexy,” Skinner wrote on Instagram. “I am so lucky to get to do this and I hope I make you all proud! See you fuckers soon on @primevideo I think you are going to love it as much as we loved making it.”

Overcompensating follows Benny (Skinner) as a closeted former football player and homecoming king whose college experience kicks off to a chaotic start. Soon enough, it becomes Benny and his best friend Carmen (Baram) against the world. While he’s navigating college, she’s still stuck in high school while hoping to earn enough social capital to fit in. Benny is doing the same.

“With guidance from Benny’s older sister (Barone) and her campus-legend boyfriend (DiMarco), Benny and Carmen juggle horrible hookups, flavored vodka and fake IDs,” a synopsis for the series reads. “Deeply funny and personal, the show explores the lengths to which we all overcompensate while on the path to finding out who we really are.”

Charli has previously appeared as a guest star in the since-cancelled Gossip Girl reboot at MAX, but has plans in place for even more Hollywood roles. She’s set to appear in Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex alongside Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman and an upcoming reimagining of the 1978 horror film Faces of Death. Last month, Deadline reported that Charli is also joining Julia Jackman’s period fantast 100 Nights of Hero.