Baby Reindeer, which met the audience on Netflix screens in April, has already managed to become one of the productions that left its mark on 2024. Created by the lead actor Richard Gadd and based on a chilling true story of the actor’s life, the production broke viewing records in a short time and became one of the most popular series on the platform. Baby Reindeer follows Richard Gadd’s life as an obsessed stalker turns his life into a nightmare. The fact that this shocking story really happened is one of the factors that increase the popularity of the series. However, there are other remarkable details about the series. Here are 13 interesting facts about Netflix’s blockbuster series Baby Reindeer.
Baby Reindeer brings a true story to the screen
As we mentioned in the introduction, Baby Reindeer is about Richard Gadd, the creator and lead actor of the series, who is stalked by an obsessed woman for about five years and his life is turned upside down. In other words, most of the disturbing situations and events we see in the series actually happened!
All the messages and emails in the series are identical to the real ones
If you’ve seen the show, you know that the obsessed fan sends Richard Gadd thousands of texts, emails and hours of audio recordings. But do you know that these messages and emails were taken verbatim from real life?
Names of real-life characters have been changed
Although many of the things depicted in the series actually happened, Baby Reindeer is not an exact copy of reality. For example, for various technical and legal reasons, the names of the characters in the series are different from those in real life.
Series creator Richard Gadd went to great lengths to avoid revealing the identity of his “stalker”
Gadd knew that after the series aired, the obsessive stalker would gain traction and some viewers would take action to find out her identity. He therefore appealed to viewers not to speculate online. He also said that he had taken serious measures to ensure that the woman’s identity was not revealed. “We went to such lengths to hide her that I don’t think she would recognize herself. What is on screen is an emotional truth, not a factual profile of someone,” he said.
Baby Reindeer was a one-man theater play before it became a TV series
Richard Gadd’s first stand-up shows were a complete failure, just like the show
Jessica Gunning was the first name Richard Gadd had in mind for the role of Martha from the beginning
The character Martha’s email account is made up of mysterious numbers from Lost
The username of the email account in the series is ma4815162342. But these seemingly random numbers are not unfamiliar to viewers. These are the famous cursed numbers from Lost.
Actress Nava Mau, who plays Teri, learned ballet for Baby Reindeer
An “intimacy coordinator” helped during the filming of the series
Intimacy coordinators work to ensure the consent and safety of actors when filming scenes involving sex or nudity. They also contribute to making these scenes look more realistic.
According to Richard Gadd, Jessica Gunning perfectly reflects the real-life stalker
Jessica Gunning reveals that she is having a hard time letting go of her character Martha
There are some mysteries in the show that even Richard Gadd doesn’t know about
The event that happened in the first episode of the series, which has become a big curiosity, is one of them. As viewers know, in the first episode, the character Martha comes to the bar where Gadd works, upset. Gadd, who wants to help her, offers her a cup of tea and the story of the years-long chase begins with this event. However, it is not known why Martha was sad that day. Richard Gadd responds to the question of why the real Martha was sad by saying, “I don’t know, but I always wondered.”