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Richard Gadd has said he put “absolutely everything” into his follow-up to runaway hit Baby Reindeer, and that the result is a story he “needed” to tell.The writer, director and actor’s new show Half Man centres on the bond between two men who were first “flung” together as teenagers in Glasgow in the 1980s when their mothers started a relationship.

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00:06I mean, I'm aware it's there, and it's funny, like, once I join a sort of creative process, an artistic
00:12process,
00:12where I decide I'm going to do something, and channels are expecting work from me, and all kinds of stuff,
00:17then I kick into a sort of fierce determination where I give it absolutely everything, and that becomes the pressure.
00:22The pressure I put myself far outweighs the pressure I feel from the public.
00:25I know it's there. The show's out in only a few days, and I know it's there,
00:29and I know people are expecting big things from this, I can never look back and say I didn't give
00:33it my everything.
00:34It's only been two years since Baby Reindeer came out. It's a very quick turnaround for a show.
00:38I've given this show, I've given the public everything I've had for two years in order to turn this around,
00:42and I just have to hope people like it. But I can never look back and say I didn't give
00:46it everything.
00:47You know, it's... I've turned this one around quickly, and I had to, I needed to, I love it, and
00:57I just hope the public will love it too.
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