Who is ‘Baby Reindeer’ stalker Martha? Creator won’t reveal — but viewers are searching

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the Hollywood Reporter.” “Please don’t speculate on who any of the real life people could be. That’s not the point of our show.”Sean Foley, the actor and director mentioned in Gadd’s post, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, “Police have been informed and are investigating all defamatory abusive and threatening posts against me.”Now streaming, the show is based on Scottish comedian Gadd’s real-life experience.The story follows Donny (Gadd), a struggling comedian who meets Martha (Jessica Gunning) during a bartending gig.

He offers her a free cup of tea when she cries, which spirals into her stalking him. “That one act of kindness changes Donny’s life forever, because for the next three years, Martha stalks him,” Jessica Gunning, who plays Martha, told Tudum. “She sends him 41,000 emails and hundreds of hours’ worth of voice messages.

But it’s not your conventional stalker storyline.” “I didn’t want it to be a victim narrative,” Gadd told the outlet. “I think there was a version of the show where I hid from my own mistakes a bit, and I offered her this cup of tea and I’m a perfect, nice guy.

But I made mistakes. And I think art is quite interesting when you don’t know who you are on the side of. You sort of feel sorry for Martha, but then you feel sorry for Donny, and then you feel sorry for her again, then you hate her and you hate him.”The show is currently No.