Who is the real Martha from ‘Baby Reindeer’? Jessica Gunning says she didn’t need to know
LA TimesBritish actor Jessica Gunning said she usually has a “what will be, will be” attitude toward auditions. “I really thought, if this gets into the wrong hands and it ever gets played by an actress who sees her as scary, or plays a kind of crazy version of a stalker, I think you’d absolutely ruin what is such nuanced, careful, delicate storytelling.” That storytelling was born out of creator and star Richard Gadd’s real-life experience with stalking that began as a one-man stage show and was woven into a darkly comic miniseries about isolation and the aftereffects of abuse. Also, all those days when we were filming Martha at the bus stop and Donny taking her back to her house, they’re really emotional days and you can’t help but feel affected by them. Throughout the whole job when I was filming, I was just obsessed with the story of it, so I didn’t really shake Donny or Martha off until we finished filming. “All those days when we were filming Martha at the bus stop and Donny taking her back to her house, they’re really emotional days and you can’t help but feel affected by them,” says actor Jessica Gunning.
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