“Child Reindeer” continues its awards streak. — Despatched from my iPhone.
The Netflix restricted sequence based mostly on the solo stage present comic Richard Gadd premiered on the Edinburgh Fringe Competition in 2019 received Finest Restricted or Anthology Sequence or Tv Movie on the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, held Sunday, January 5 on the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. This marks a streak for Netflix, as they received in the identical class for Lee Sung Jin’s “Beef” final 12 months.
Named as one in all IndieWire’s Finest TV Reveals of 2024, “Child Reindeer” stars Gadd as a model of himself renamed Donny Dunn. A struggling alt-comedian and bartender in London, Dunn turns into concerned in an advanced entanglement with a stalker that forces him to face traumatic previous occasions he hadn’t but handled emotionally. The present has been lauded for not solely its dealing with of sexuality, gender identification, sexual assault, and trauma, but additionally its performances from Gadd, Jessica Gunning, Nava Mau, and Tom Goodman-Hill. All 4 have been nominated on the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards, with Gadd and Gunning successful, respectively, for Excellent Lead Actor and Excellent Supporting Actress in a Restricted or Anthology Sequence or Tv Movie.
Gadd and Gunning have been additionally nominated on the Golden Globes for Finest Actor — Miniseries or Tv Movie and Finest Supporting Actress — Sequence, Miniseries, or Tv Movie, with Gunning successful in her class. Each spoke to IndieWire at separate factors following the present’s meteoric rise in spring 2024.
“Twitter was exploding. It was trending. It was so big,” Gadd informed Indiewire’s Marcus Jones. “After which folks have been hanging round my road. I couldn’t actually stroll down the road anymore, and I needed to sort of disguise myself to a sure diploma, and it felt very intense instantly. I may really feel it nearly transmutating in a approach. I don’t learn a lot on-line, if something, and I keep out of it. I didn’t write the present to learn countless articles about it, and watch TikTok or go on Twitter and see what folks should say. I’ve stayed out of it largely, however at one level I keep in mind turning on the information and it was folks discussing it on the information, activate the radio, folks have been discussing it on the radio. I keep in mind I used to be on the entrance web page of the paper at one level, and it felt like in every single place I went, I couldn’t keep away from it. It actually felt like everybody was speaking about it. And that lasted for about 4 to 6 weeks after it had come out.”
Beforehand having co-star within the 2015 LGBTQ drama “Satisfaction,” Gunning has been a working actress for a few years, however informed Indiewire’s Proma Khosla that inhabiting stalker Martha was not like any expertise she’d had to date and all the consideration she’s gotten in consequence received’t ever surpass that.
“I’ve stated earlier than, and I genuinely do imply this: if I by no means work once more, I get to say that I performed Martha in ‘Child Reindeer,’” stated Gunning. “I’m so happy with that, so I by no means, ever use it as a platform, I by no means wish to be well-known or something like that. I simply wish to work, I like it a lot. I’m such a geek.”
The 82nd Golden Globe Awards have been held Sunday, January 5 on the Beverly Hilton Lodge in Los Angeles, CA.
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