Welcome to It’s a Hit ! In this series, IndieWire speaks to creators and showrunners behind a few of our favorite television programs about the moment they realized their show was breaking big. While there was not really anyone, not even Netflix, that anticipated just how huge “ Baby Reindeer ” would become, its Emmy-nominated creator and star Richard Gadd told IndieWire over Zoom, “I always believed in it. I thought it was a hit when I was working on it.
” Speaking more on the Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series nominee that explores his real life experience with stalking and sexual assault, the Scottish comedian said, “In a television process where there’s a lot of voices and a lot of questions being asked and a lot of feedback being given, I think it’s very easy to get disillusioned sometimes. And it’s very easy to sometimes see swaths of notes or swaths of feedback and sort of become like, ‘Oh God, oh God.’” But by the time he was performing scenes opposite Supporting Actress in a Limited Series nominee Jessica Gunning , like his Donny and her Martha shouting at each other in a doorway at the end of the third episode, Gadd was already hearing rumbling of the crew saying “Oh, this might be quite good.
” “When people work on set, and they change from set to set, they can tune out of the material sometimes. And there were moments on set where particular scenes went well or something, and I thought, ‘Oh, this could really be something.’ But.