After mining his own personal history to great acclaim in Baby Reindeer, Richard Gadd joked that for his next project, he “kind of ran out of a few things to draw upon.” But while Half Man is wholly fictional, there a lot of him in it.
“I wanted to sort of challenge myself in a different realm,” he explained during the Deadline Contenders TV panel for the HBO six-part limited series. “I think every piece of work is sort of autobiographical to a certain extent, because it’s always borrowed from a writer’s sort of view of the world or how they see characters, the human traits, human behaviors.”
Gadd definitely was looking for an opportunity that was as immersive as Baby Reindeer, and similarly he wrote, produced and starred in Half Man. “I like to be across everything. I mean, it’s all-consuming. When I do a show, I’ve
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