Monkey See Monkey Do won critical acclaim and was a turning point in Gadd’s career. Three years later, he returned to Edinburgh with another one-man show show exploring abuse – Baby Reindeer.<\/p>\n
The story of Donny Dunn, a comedian and barman who becomes the target of a stalker, it too won critical acclaim and was swiftly commissioned as a series by Netflix. Gadd was cast as the lead and wrote the screenplay.<\/p>\n
Released exactly two years ago, Baby Reindeer brought Gadd global recognition. But it also brought controversy and criticism. <\/p>\n
Scottish lawyer Fiona Harvey outed herself as the inspiration for the show’s obsessive stalker, suing Netflix for defamation and negligence for billing it as “a true story”. <\/p>\n
The $170m dollar case is still going through the US courts.<\/p>\n
It has cast a long shadow over Gadd but he was keen to get back to work, keen to get back writing about masculinity.<\/p>\n
“There were lots of conversations around male rage,” he says.<\/p>\n
“I thought it would be interesting to take two broken men in adult life and flashback to their childhood to see what made them the way they are.”<\/p>\n
He began writing Half Man the day after completing the script for Baby Reindeer.<\/p>\n
The new series examines the dysfunctional and volatile relationship between two men growing up in Glasgow in the 1980s. <\/p>\n
It begins on the wedding day of Niall (Jamie Bell) with the unexpected arrival of Reuben (Richard Gadd) who immediately punches him in the face. <\/p>\n
Through flashbacks over six episodes, we learn why the two are so irredeemably attracted and repelled by one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monkey See Monkey Do won critical acclaim and was a turning point in Gadd’s career. Three years later,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-543713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543713","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=543713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}