Emily Osment and Olivia Macklin star as Chelsea and Claire in Netflix’s new comedy, Pretty Smart. The season will be a total of ten episodes and begin streaming on October 8.
After getting unexpectedly dumped by her boyfriend, Chelsea (Emily Osment) — a high-brow, Harvard-educated intellectual and aspiring novelist — is forced to move in with her bubbly, carefree, not-so-intellectual West Coast sister, Claire (Olivia Macklin), and her three lovably eccentric, not-so-intellectual roommates: Grant (Gregg Sulkin), a distractingly handsome personal trainer, Solana (Cinthya Carmon), a former lawyer turned healer, and Jayden (Michael Hsu Rosen), a social media influencer. But Chelsea’s tough, sometimes judgemental exterior starts to soften as she gets to know her new friends, and they begin to form an unlikely found family.
Osment is best known for her television roles in Hannah Montana, Young & Hungry, Almost Family, and The Kominsky Method.
Macklin can be recognized for her work in Filthy Rich, LA to Vegas, Radium Girls, and The Young Pope.
I had the pleasure of speaking with the duo about their characters, the friendship theme of the show, which character they’d want as their real life roommate, and more!
Watch my interview below to hear everything they shared:
