Richard Gadd on What's Next After the Success of 'Baby Reindeer' | Spirit Awards 2025 - video Dailymotion

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Richard Gadd reflects on the whirlwind awards season for 'Baby Reindeer' and the impact of original storytelling. He shares his excitement about meeting Hollywood icons like Jon Hamm and Elton John, his intense physical transformation for an upcoming BBC/HBO project and his thoughts on America's current global standing. Plus, he teases his new psychological drama with Jamie Bell and why he's taking a break before jumping into his next project.

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00:00yeah how you doing great nice to see you my friend god what a what a what a ride it's been crazy

00:06yeah it's been mad i sort of um this feels like kind of coming up to the end of award season in

00:11a way in in the u.s and i'm kind of sad it's over i feel kind of like quite reflective today and

00:16quite like oh wow the train is coming to a stop and it's quite sad but it couldn't have gone any

00:22better and i've just loved my time out here i'm quite emotional today i feel quite like vulnerable

00:26it's weird it's weird you vulnerable come on yeah i know i know it's uh but yeah no it's it's a mad

00:33time and it feels real uh it feels special i'll never forget the past six months i won't forget

00:38it either and i won't forget sitting in my seat at some of these award shows watching you

00:42get up there um and deliver these powerful speeches about about storytelling and algorithms and you

00:50know and and and sort of embracing original storytelling tell me how those landed when

00:56you got off stage i think people are quite grateful for them i i think baby reindeer bucked

01:00a trend that was becoming quite widespread i think in television of of stuff that kind of was was quite

01:05mainstream like catch all storytelling let's capture big audiences keep them keep them and i

01:10think that baby reindeer was a very unique story and it was very idiosyncratic it was very dark it's

01:14very challenging but it captured as big an audience as all these other shows did and i think as a

01:18result because i think people in television really want to tell stories that are different and new and

01:22exciting and challenging but i think for a while they perhaps felt like they didn't and i think

01:26baby reindeer's opened the door for that so i think people are very grateful for the fact that i've said

01:30these things and i just believe that it is possible to tell almost every story and and not feel like

01:37you're compromising audience and stuff like that that i i just um i just think it's just important

01:42that we in in a world that's ever-changing and increasingly challenging that we capture um really

01:48i don't interesting challenging stories at the same time and one of the other joys about this season is

01:54seeing you speeches aside just seeing how much you're a fan of so many people and you've you know

01:59told me a couple times the people you got to meet you got to meet john ham you got to meet some

02:03people you really like tell me who's your been your favorite sort of fellow star that you've met or

02:09somebody that's that or somebody that came up to you and said man i love baby rain yeah i i've met

02:15so many people like so many famous people that these past these past little while that it blows

02:20my mind that they sort of know who i am and they they've watched the show it's kind of crazy i remember

02:25getting a video message from john cena i thought that was really cool elton john phoned me i had a long

02:30chat with elton john he was a gentleman and just lovely and i love his music and and everything like

02:35that and um but you know people i i remember like uh i i could i could leave me so john ham was an

02:41absolute pleasure i remember uh rita aura was lovely um yeah it's it's mad i i could list you so many but

02:48people have been really kind to me and i i i really i really uh i'm very grateful for it actually uh and

02:54richard you bulked up you bulked up since the last time i saw you tell me how did you do it how are you

02:59feeling how's the shoot going well the shoot is actually i'm here for a weekend so i'm shooting right now

03:05and i flew over for the weekend i'm flying back so i'm absolutely exhausted i'm very jet-lagged as i

03:09stand here but yeah i bulked up it's the opposite of baby reindeer where i lost like a third of my

03:12body weight to do that role so i'm now bulking up i did a kind of dirty bulk and now i'm having to

03:17trim the fat so i'm not eating many carbs and i'm actually like trying to trim the fat i'm doing a

03:20lot of cardio so i'm pretty pretty exhausted right now in fact i did a two-hour workout this morning

03:25while uh getting off a flight and having about four hours sleep so uh yeah it's great what is a dirty

03:30bulk that means you just eat trash you eat a bunch of junk you eat very high protein very high carb

03:34your body grow i don't really know the science behind it but that's just what i did and i i

03:38ballooned very very quickly uh i would the time was not on our side um i was weighing up whether

03:43to be in this or just oversee it from an extent point of view and then suddenly i was going to be

03:47in it it required the character to be big and scary so um so yeah so i it was like time was of the

03:53essence so it was cram a lot of food and work out a hell of a lot and then lose the fat later and it's a

03:58an action thing for the bbc yeah i wouldn't say action it's still my usual dark travail through

04:04life kind of thing but it's it's um it's got jamie bell in it it's for the bbc and hbo it's a

04:09co-pro and it's a six-part series it's about two kind of dysfunctional brothers i'm not sure how much

04:15i'm allowed to say but i'm excited about it it's full-on it's intense but i'm i'm really hoping it's

04:19i really just want it to be good you know i imagine that's taking all your time for right now but are

04:24you writing other stuff at the moment no i've got ideas in the works i've got like things i'm

04:29talking about for the future i think i'll do this show because i finished baby ranger on the 14th of

04:33december 2023 and then i started this show on the 14th of december and so i've done two shows back

04:40to back really intense so i'll take a break and then i'll reset a little bit and then i'll see what's

04:45next and can i ask you like a cultural question you know as somebody who lives overseas what is

04:51everybody thinking of america right now it's an interesting question i think people are naturally

04:56kind of concerned the world is in such a state of flux flux sorry did i say box but the world is in

05:04such a sort of state of flux right now it's very hard to determine what is going to happen i think

05:09the world is just so polarized right now and polemical i i just saw it's almost quite quite hard to even

05:16grasp what is going on half the time i think europe's obviously very very nervous about what's

05:20happening now uh obviously uh the u.s being such a partner of of europe and such a uh such close

05:26allies everyone talks about the uk and that special relationship and so there feels to be a bit of a

05:30splitting about a bit of a but but you never know like you kind of never know with trump like what is

05:35kind of going on but i i i yeah i think i think the whole world is maybe a bit concerned right now

05:40yeah gotta end somewhere lighter richard gad that was heavy it's a saturday morning what would you

05:47normally be doing on a saturday what would be your ideal saturday well what i'd normally be doing is

05:52writing and working and doing the usual um it's honestly 24 7 right now what would i ideally be

05:58doing oh it's a good probably playing a game of uh football or soccer as you say kicking some a ball

06:05all about with some friends

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