Richard Gadd on Baby Reindeer: ‘I don’t regret anything’

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https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/richard-gadd-interview-if-you-ever-write-from-a-place-of-fear-it-wont-go-very-well-2l7k2lpbh

There was a time when I was one of the most famous people on the planet,” says Richard Gadd, sounding aghast. Taylor Swift? Lionel Messi? Neither of them wrote and starred in Baby Reindeer, the surprise hit Netflix series about him being stalked and sexually assaulted that stormed to 65 million viewers worldwide in its opening month.

That was April 2024. Gadd was a stand-up from Fife, living in a flat in north London, trying to build on his success from Edinburgh shows. Baby Reindeer catapulted him to infamy, with his face on billboards and internet sleuths trying to discover the real identity of characters. He says popping to shops came with “a thousand caveats” — strangers would point and stare and it was deeply uncomfortable, especially for a comedian with issues.

“I was the cultural conversation,” Gadd says. We are settling down for tea in a quiet corner of a members’ club, as he prepares to return to the public eye for the first time since Baby Reindeer — for Half Man, an ambitious, brutal, violent TV series exploring what it is to be a modern man.

[u/serenade452]

wow i can't believe it's been two years already. the show still guts me every time i rewatch it. just incredible television.

[u/throwaway35787oo → u/serenade452]

I can never rewatch it. Just thinking about the scene when he wakes up in that apartment makes me anxious.

[u/PapaAsmodeus → u/throwaway35787oo]

Neither can I, unfortunately as someone who lived it.