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‘Baby Reindeer’ Actress Jessica Gunning Says Stalker Character Martha Was “Never A Villain”


The actress praised the Netflix hit's creator and co-star Richard Gadd for being brave and vulnerable.

The female star of Baby Reindeer says she felt a sense of responsibility for her co-star Richard Gadd, who wrote the Netflix drama about a stalker and her victim, based on his own real-life experience of being targeted. In the series which has topped the Netflix charts on both sides of the Atlantic since its release last week, Jessica Gunning plays Martha who meets kindly barman Donny. Scottish comedian Gadd, who plays Donny in the show, based the story on an earlier period in his real life, in which he had been abused by an older man, and went on to become a target of stalking.

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