{"id":539195,"date":"2026-04-19T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539195\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:04:10","slug":"half-man-richard-gadd-on-his-follow-up-to-baby-reindeer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539195\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Man: Richard Gadd on his follow-up to Baby Reindeer"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Gadd says he never writes with actors in mind, he couldn’t shake the idea of Jamie Bell, who starred in Billy Elliot and Rocketman, playing Niall.<\/p>\n

“He’s a very celebrated actor, but in my mind, still underrated,” he says, adding he felt Bell, set to star in the upcoming Peaky Blinders series, “looked right” for the part.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Gadd is keen for people to make their own mind up about the ending of the series and the characters.<\/p>\n

“Whatever they think the ending is, whatever they think the show’s about, that’s probably what it is.”<\/p>\n

You can watch Half Man<\/a> on BBC iPlayer every week from Friday 24 April<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Gadd says he never writes with actors in mind, he couldn’t shake the idea of Jamie Bell,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-539195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}