Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning are in disbelief.
Gunning is just as amazed.
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Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning in ‘Baby Reindeer’.Ed Miller/Netflix
Gadd plays a fictionalized version of himself named Donny Dunn.
But he says he never considered someone else playing this version of himself.
“I was always willing to go down that road.
Richard Gadd in ‘Baby Reindeer’.Netflix
I would never cast myself to the detriment of a project.
A discussion point, indeed.
As he has maintained since the series debuted, Gadd says that isn’t the point.
Jessica Gunning in ‘Baby Reindeer’.Ed Miller/Netflix
“I’ve gone about telling this story how I want to tell it.
How I heal myself and my journey is up to me, really.
Their job is to do what’s right for them at the time,” Gadd says.
Jessica Gunning and Richard Gadd in ‘Baby Reindeer’.Netflix
“I wantBaby Reindeerto be enjoyed as a piece of work.
I got a great deal of healing from that.
“That’s what was so exciting about the project.”
Given the enormous success of the series, one might assume that Netflix would be hungry for more.
Audiences, it seems, would come along for the ride.
But by all accounts, Gadd is done with this chapter of his life.
“I’m 99.9 percent sure thatBaby Reindeeris done,” he says.
I think it’s a limited series.
And I worry that the authenticity would leak out of the screen.”
