Skyler Gisondo says he and Jennifer Lawrence squabbled like siblings on The Bill Engvall Show

On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Skyler Gisondo flashed back to being nine years old on a TBS soundstage, taping in front of a crowd and shadowing his older TV “siblings.” He says he and Jennifer Lawrence had the kind of bond that comes with spending every week together on a multicam set.

“I remember we like, I think, fought like brother and sister,” he said. “We were like very close.”

The gig was The Bill Engvall Show (2007–2009), a traditional Friday-night tape with a live audience — catnip for a kid who loved the rush.

“I lived for the Friday nights,”

he added, calling the weekly performance energy “so exciting.”

Part of what clicked on the show was the Pearson kids’ easy rhythm. In case you watched back then and are connecting the dots:

• Jennifer Lawrence — Lauren Pearson
• Graham Patrick Martin — Trent Pearson
• Skyler Gisondo — Bryan Pearson

Lawrence and Martin were a few years older, which made them heroes in Gisondo’s eyes when the cameras weren’t rolling.

“I just thought her and Graham were like the two coolest people in the world,”

he said. The timeline also caught Lawrence right before liftoff: during the sitcom’s run she took on Winter’s Bone, a stark indie role that couldn’t have been farther from the family- comedy vibe they were making together.

From Pearson to Olsen

Gisondo’s now part of James Gunn ’s connected DC universe as Jimmy Olsen, first in Superman — due in 2025 — and then headlining the Max series The People v. Gorilla Grodd. The show is framed as an investigative procedural built around the telepathic gorilla villain, keeping Jimmy’s reporter instincts front and center while pulling in metahuman weirdness.

The setup also means DC is sticking with the same actors across film and TV — so the Jimmy you meet in theaters in 2025 is the one leading the case on Max after that.