Baby Reindeer’s Jessica Gunning Never Saw Martha as a Villain
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Conde Nast & Vanity Fair
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Rebecca chats with Jessica Gunning the day after she received her first Emmy nomination for playing Martha, a woman who becomes obsessed with Richard Gadd's comedian character in the hit Netflix limited series. They discuss her grueling audition process, the strange offers she's gotten since, and how she's sidestepped being pigeonholed in her 17-year acting career.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:06.0 | I am delighted and proud to introduce him |
| 0:09.0 | as Academy Award winner. |
| 0:11.0 | And the Oscar goes to. And the Oscar goes to. |
| 0:13.0 | And the Oscar goes to the winner. |
| 0:17.0 | It's a tie. |
| 0:18.0 | And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the teller you never know. |
| 0:25.0 | Ma, I just want an Oscar. So unless you've been living under a rock you know about this year's busiestiest Netflix show, Baby Reindeer. The series is |
| 0:44.8 | written and created by Richard Gadd and is based on Gadd's real life experiences. |
| 0:49.0 | He also stars in it as Donnie Dunn, a wann be comedian working at a pub. The story really takes off |
| 0:55.5 | when an unassuming visitor, a woman named Martha, comes into the bar and quickly becomes |
| 1:00.6 | obsessed with him. |
| 1:01.5 | Every day now, Martha would be outside, this ticking time bomb on my life. |
| 1:07.0 | I would leave first thing in the morning and she would be there. |
| 1:10.0 | I love you nipples. Think of me at work today. |
| 1:16.0 | Then I would come back, sometimes as late as 11 or 12 at night, |
| 1:20.0 | and she would still be there. |
| 1:21.0 | How was your shift brain dear. |
| 1:23.4 | Did you think of me? |
| 1:24.8 | I never understood what she got from it. |
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