00:00Themes of I guess masculinity or what it means to be a man or going through a
00:04masculinity crisis comes into it probably because I've been through that in
00:07my life and I feel I can write to it and I speak to it. I assume with a lot
00:10of the
00:11themes in Half-Man I guess I wasn't done exploring them yet.
00:14Hello I'm Richard Gad and I'm on set at my Hollywood Reporter cover shoot.
00:21I've been working on this show so intensely and so consistently for the best part of two years
00:27since since Baby Ranger came out and I got to work and sometimes you when you're
00:32in the throes of the television process and you're stuck in the edits and you're
00:35you're resting with every single day trying to grapple it down to size I sort
00:38of sometimes doesn't feel real that it ever reaches an end point and now that
00:41the trailers out now that press is starting now everything's happening it
00:44feels real and I'm excited I'm nervous everything in between but I'm really
00:49proud of the show and I just hope that people like it I wrote the first script
00:56pre-baby reindeer funnily enough so I wrote episode one back in around 2019 I
01:02would say it was I guess back in 2019 there's probably a lot of conversation
01:05about men I'm assuming something sort of seeped its way into my
01:09subconscious because I was just walking down the street one day and I just came
01:12with this idea it was interesting you take two broken men in their adult life and
01:16then let's contextualize why they're so repressed let's contextualize their their
01:20rage their violence the way they view themselves and each other sometimes all I
01:25need is just the creative idea that doesn't leave me to move forward and
01:28with a project I always think like the best kind of artist kept close to your
01:34chest kept close to your heart kept close to your experiences and and I guess
01:38with half man I there's a lot in it that I relate to it's not a autobiographical
01:43piece by any stretch it's purely fiction but it certainly borrows from themes and
01:47struggles and issues that I understand I really don't know how people will
01:52respond to half man I I think it's very different to anything I've done before
01:56very different baby reindeer speaking of baby reindeer because I guess I can look
02:00back on that and I think at that time it really stood out against the
02:03televisual landscape I think I think it really went against the grain and humans
02:07love to be challenged and and that they love to watch stuff they can't look away
02:11from and and I think humans love running the gamut of emotions when they watch
02:15television shows I think baby reindeer not only did I think it stood out just
02:18because it was artistically different for everything that was going on right
02:21now I think it stood out and I think people loved it because they they hadn't
02:24been challenged in that way before for a while on television when you said shows
02:32that I love that come to mind the first thing I thought was succession that was
02:35the last show I watched with my jaw to the floor I remember watching it during the
02:39baby reindeer process and it gets to the end of this the episode number that oh I'm not
02:43sure this is good for me it's so good it's so good that was the last show I mean so
02:48many shows have blown my mind for so many different ways but that was the last show
02:51I watched that that made me you know really have have a sort of another second wave of
02:57artistic sort of enlightenment about what television is capable of things that make
03:04me laugh I mean I mean loads of things make me laugh I I think I I think people probably
03:10got
03:10this from uh like my old stand-up routine or if you could even call this stand-up routine the
03:18kind
03:18of stuff you sort of see parodied in in baby reindeer I think really awkward sort of almost
03:24intentionally bad comedy makes me laugh it really makes me laugh it almost taps into like an immature
03:30side that I think I must have had when I was a kid I think somebody tried so hard to
03:34be unfunny in a
03:36way or writing lazy jokes so it just I don't know it just makes me laugh so much I think
03:40your maturity
03:41really makes me laugh
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