Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning talk 'Baby Reindeer' success, why he hasn't named his abuser, the hardest scenes to film, and the potential for more episodes of the hit Netflix series.
It's the top show on Netflix three weeks running — Gadd and Gunning tell EW about their surprise at its success, he explains why he hasn't named his abuser, and more.podcast. Gerrad also cohosts EW's live Oscars, Emmys, SAG, and Grammys red carpet shows, and he has appeared on."I always believed in the show and I always thought it would be maybe a critical cult success, but I don't think I expected it to blow up in the way that it has.
Gadd plays a fictionalized version of himself named Donny Dunn. A struggling comedian, he bartends at a pub where a depressed and broke Martha Scott, played by a magnetic Gunning, wanders into one day. His ability to make her laugh becomes anything but funny when she begins stalking him, turning up daily to the pub, following him home, sending more than 41,000 emails and hundreds of texts, and more.
"I was always willing to go down that road. I would never cast myself to the detriment of a project. I think there's been projects — I'm not going to name any names or something — where I think people have cast themselves in roles to the detriment of the project, and it's just felt like a vehicle for them to do an acting turn or something like this," Gadd tells EW.
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