Baby Reindeer star Jessica Gunning has told how a terrified woman screamed at her in the street because she thought she was following her. The actress, who plays an obsessed stalker called Martha in the hit Netflix show, bumped into the woman outside her home just minutes after she had watched the last episode of the programme. Jessica, 38, reckons this was the moment when she realised just how huge the show had become.
“I came out of my house the other week and a lady was just there on the street and went, ‘Ahhh!’, she says. “But it’s because she’d just finished episode seven, walked out of her door and then I was there. “So I understand why maybe that may have been a bit freaky.
” In the drama, Jessica’s character Martha spends whole days in the street outside her victim’s home. And the actress admits she looks similar to the 58-year-old Scottish woman who claims she is the real life inspiration for the character and is now suing Netflix for defamation. Series creator and Scottish comic Richard Gadd – who also stars as victim Donny – based it on his experience of being stalked by a woman he met at the pub where he worked.
Donny is also shown being sexually assaulted by a male TV writer who promises to help him carve out a career in comedy – a storyline he says is also rooted in real events. Jessica says she is proud of Richard for inspiring other victims of sexual assault to seek help. She says: “The impact has been incredible.
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