{"id":92562,"date":"2024-04-24T20:06:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T20:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/who-is-the-real-martha-from-baby-reindeer-richard-gadd-explains-why-he-changed-details-for-netflix-series\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T20:06:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T20:06:59","slug":"who-is-the-real-martha-from-baby-reindeer-richard-gadd-explains-why-he-changed-details-for-netflix-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/who-is-the-real-martha-from-baby-reindeer-richard-gadd-explains-why-he-changed-details-for-netflix-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is the Real Martha from \u2018Baby Reindeer\u2019? Richard Gadd Explains Why He Changed Details for Netflix Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p>The new Netflix limited series <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/baby-reindeer\/\" title=\"Baby Reindeer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Baby Reindeer<\/strong><\/a><\/em> is the biggest new phenomenon on the streaming service and fans are trying to figure out the real story.<\/p>\n<p><em>Baby Reindeer<\/em> follows struggling comedian Donny Dunn\u2019s (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/richard-gadd\/\" title=\"Richard Gadd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Richard Gadd<\/strong><\/a>) warped relationship with his female stalker (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jessica-gunning\/\" title=\"Jessica Gunning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jessica Gunning<\/strong><\/a>) and the impact it has on him as he is ultimately forced to face a deeply buried trauma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard <\/strong>created the show based on his true story of being stalked, though he has already asked fans to not investigate the real story.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, <strong>Richard <\/strong>explained the character details that were changed from his real life and why he decided to make Martha unrecognizable from the real person.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2018616\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When asked what the real Martha would think of the show, <strong>Richard <\/strong>told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/article\/baby-reindeer-netflix-richard-gadd-interview?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_social-type=owned\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/article\/baby-reindeer-netflix-richard-gadd-interview?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_social-type=owned&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GQ<\/a><\/em>, \u201cI honestly couldn\u2019t speak as to whether she would watch it. Her reactions to things varied so much that I almost couldn\u2019t predict how she\u2019d react to anything. She was quite an idiosyncratic person. We\u2019ve gone to such great lengths to disguise her to the point that I don\u2019t think she would recognize herself. What\u2019s been borrowed is an emotional truth, not a fact-by-fact profile of someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard <\/strong>also said that the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/04\/23\/how-true-is-baby-reindeer-netflixs-new-star-richard-gadd-has-a-message-for-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> story is \u201cpretty truthful.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny time it veered too much into embellishment I would always want to pull it back. It\u2019s extremely emotionally truthful. Of course, this is a medium where structure is so important, you need to change things to protect people\u2026 but I like to think, artistically, that it never moved too far from the truth,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>So, what happened to Martha?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard <\/strong>told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/richard-gadd-i-was-stalked-for-four-years-8r2vdpd9r\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/richard-gadd-i-was-stalked-for-four-years-8r2vdpd9r&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Times<\/a><\/em> that the stalker situation was \u201cresolved\u201d in real life, but Martha didn\u2019t go to jail as he \u201cdidn\u2019t want to throw someone who was that level of mentally unwell in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Baby Reindeer<\/em> is streaming now on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/04\/24\/who-is-the-real-martha-from-baby-reindeer-richard-gadd-explains-why-he-changed-details-for-netflix-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Netflix limited series Baby Reindeer is the biggest new phenomenon on the streaming service and fans are trying to figure out the real story. Baby Reindeer follows struggling comedian Donny Dunn\u2019s (Richard Gadd) warped relationship with his female stalker (Jessica Gunning) and the impact it has on him as he is ultimately forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}