As viewers continue to be gripped by Netflix's chilling new drama Baby Reindeer, we take a closer look at the harrowing true-life story behind the new seven part mini-series
As chilling new drama Baby Reindeer hits our screens on Netflix , audiences from around the country will be able to see firsthand the stuff of nightmares, as a tiny act of kindness quickly snowballs into a dangerous spiral of stalking and obsession.
Unwilling to become a victim, Richard decided to respond in a way that was far more familiar to him and penned a brand new play that addressed the experience he was living and drew on some of the more intimate details of his ordeal, including the play’s title - Baby Reindeer - which is a nickname his stalker had given him.
“Stalking on television tends to be very sexed-up,” show writer Richard Gadd told Netflix. “It has a mystique. It’s somebody in a dark alley way. It’s somebody who’s really sexy, who’s very normal, but then they go strange bit by bit. But stalking is a mental illness. I really wanted to show the layers of stalking with a human quality I hadn’t seen on television before.
“There’s an issue of co-dependency, of attachment, where this person genuinely believes that the other person is an answer to all of their problems,” he told the broadcaster. “I believe that the person who stalked me was a very vulnerable character. I believe she was someone to be sympathised with.”
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