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Nava Mau Brought the ‘Teri Fire’ to Baby Reindeer
On separating the character from her real-life inspiration and her most difficult day on set.
Donny’s life may be unraveling, but it is his attraction to Teri — and the knotted feelings about his sexuality he’s forced to reckon with as a result — that serves as a kind of salve in his darkest hours. Like much of the rest of the show, Teri is loosely based on a real-life person who left an imprint on Gadd, but Mau’s tender performance elevates her to a wholly original character. In a lot of the scripts I read, characters that are written as trans feel as if we’re so alien, when in reality, we have full lives with friends and careers — and love and pain and joy.
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