An Incensed Charli XCX Categorically Refuses to Play Her Biggest Hit in Hilarious ‘Overcompensating' Trailer: ‘Are You Joking!'
In the teaser that dropped on Tuesday (March 25) for the show that debuts on May 15, Charli is booked to play a campus gig and she's absolutely livid about a beloved song the promoters want her to perform. 'Do you think I want to play f–king 'Boom Clap' in a f–king college,' she rages at a stricken-looking, headset-wearing stage manager trying to maintain her smile as she gets berated for asking the singer to play the pop jam that was featured on both the soundtrack to the weeper drama The Fault in Our Stars and on Charli's second studio album, 2014's Sucker.
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'Are you joking?' Charli adds as the woman's face subtly transforms from patient to terrified.
The semi-autobiographical Overcompensating follows closeted former high school football player Benny (Skinner), who becomes friends with an outsider, Carmen (Wally Baram), who is trying his hardest to fit in. In addition to those two, the show also features regulars Mary Beth Barone (Black Mirror), Adam DiMarco (The White Lotus) and Rish Shah (Ms. Marvel), as well as Connie Britton, Kyle MacLachlan, Kaia Gerber, and Owen Thiele.
After setting the world on fire with her brat summer last year, Charlie is reportedly in talks for a role in Greta Gerwig's upcoming Narnia film as Jadis, the White Witch. She is also slated to appear alongside Jenna Ortega and Natalie Portman in The Gallerist, Gregg Araki's upcoming thriller I Want Your Sex, Daniel Goldhaber's Faces of Death remake and Julia Jackman's 100 Nights of Hero graphic novel adaptation, as well as producing the movie The Moment based on her original idea.
Watch the Overcompensating trailer below.
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