{"id":557963,"date":"2026-06-28T06:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/557963\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T06:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T06:25:12","slug":"overcompensatings-benito-skinner-plays-two-roles-in-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/557963\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Overcompensating’s Benito Skinner Plays Two Roles In Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWith Season 2 of his Prime Video<\/a> series, Benito Skinner<\/a> is putting in some onscreen double duty.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Saturday, the Overcompensating<\/a> creator and star teased to Deadline that \u201csomething sinister\u201d is in store for the collegiate comedy series, in which he reprises his starring role as Benny, in addition to another mysterious role.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI do play two characters this season,\u201d said Skinner at Prime Video\u2019s Obsessed Fest. \u201cYeah, there\u2019s something coming, something sinister.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tInspired by his journey to coming out of the closet as a college jock, Skinner\u2019s semi-autobiographical series was renewed for Season 2<\/a> at Prime Video in September.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Holmes upped to series regular<\/a> as hilarious party girl Hailee, Season 2 guest appearances include Tom Francis as Declan Bishop, Aisha Dee as Naomi and AnnaSophia Robb as Chels.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso reprising their recurring roles from Season 1 are Connie Britton, Kyle MacLachlan, Lukas Gage, Andrea Martin, Julia Shiplett, Nell Verlaque, Danielle Perez, Yasmine Sahid, Boman Martinez-Reid, Tomaso Sanelli and Austin Lindsay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Season 2 of his Prime Video series, Benito Skinner is putting in some onscreen double duty. On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[40463,18,117,19,17,40464,3973,128],"class_list":["post-557963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-benito-skinner","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-overcompensating","tag-prime-video","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116826312363394909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}