'Some of the scenes we re-enacted on set were really tough': Richard Gadd on Baby Reindeer 

Everyone is talking about the chilling, visceral, deeply compelling comedy-drama Baby Reindeer. But what about the experiences that inspired it?

Baby Reindeer on Netflix is about comedian Richard Gadd's experience of being ferociously stalked. Picture: Netflix

When Richard Gadd wrote Monkey See Monkey Do for the Edinburgh fringe in 2016, he says, “it was pre-#MeToo; sexual assault wasn’t really in the public consciousness, and male sexual assault particularly wasn’t”. 

He was 27 and catastrophically anxious, and his flatmates were worried, asking him: “What are you doing? No, like, really what are you doing?”