Baby Reindeer Interview: Meet Martha Actor, Jessica Gunning
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- We talk about the experience of “breaking out” in Hollywood a lot on Collider Ladies Night. There are many wonderful ways to have that moment in film and television, but Jessica Gunning has seen her star soar in an especially exciting way over the last month courtesy of the popularity of Netflix’s Baby Reindeer.
Based on his own personal experience which he adapted into an award-winning Edinburgh Fringe one-man play, the Richard Gadd-created series stars Gunning as Martha, Donny Dunn’s (Gadd) stalker. What Donny thinks is just a simple act of kindness, offering Martha a free cup of tea on a tough day, winds up being a life-changing exchange as she wedges her way into just about every part of his life. Not only does the relationship turn Donny’s day-to-day on its head, but the experience also challenges him to address some long-buried trauma.
Baby Reindeer isn’t some massive production with a significant monthslong promotional campaign behind it. It’s something that caught on in a big way, seemingly out of the blue, simply because it’s an exquisitely crafted and incredibly well-acted piece. While Gunning isn’t new to the industry by any means, the success of Baby Reindeer has instantly turned her into a highly recognizable name, one earning a good deal of Emmy buzz at the moment, and it’s inspiring many to check out her other credits, films like 2014’s Pride and the ongoing Prime Video series, The Outlaws.
In celebration of this extremely well-deserved game-changing moment, I welcomed Gunning to Collider Ladies Night to revisit her road to Baby Reindeer, to break down the nuances of Martha, and to discuss what it’s like becoming a bonafide Emmy contender.
00:00 Dicey Questions
04:13 Introduction
04:47 Getting Into Acting
06:13 Studying in School
08:41 Pride
09:57 The Outlaws
11:46 Baby Reindeer Audition
13:33 Figuring Out Martha
16:46 Martha & Donny’s Relationship
18:10 Why Did Martha Go to the Bar?
19:03 What If Donny Never Gave Her the Cup of Tea?
20:13 Martha’s Physicality
21:52 Is Martha More Honest Than Dishonest?
24:19 Baby Reindeer Ending
26:32 Emmy Buzz
27:29 What Jessica Is Most Proud Of
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How good is Jessica Gunning in Baby Reindeer? Do you have a favorite performance beat of hers in the show? Drop your pick here!
That moment just before she attacked Donny’s girlfriend, she was incredible with the anger and rage.
She was amazing from first walking in to the sentencing scene.. she made "Martha" sympathetic which after seeing the real woman, she just did a phenomenal job... Best I've seen in such a long time❤
After seeing the interview of the real "Martha" and then seeing interviews of Jessica being herself. It's a truly brilliant performance.
Absolutely amazing. A character performance that is both terrirfying and sympathetic.
JESSICA DESERVES AN EMMY
She better win a lot of awards!
Absolute brilliant performance by Jessica and after seeing the interview of the real life Martha , she absolutely nailed it.
For real I heard the real Martha speak and it was almost exactly how Jessica portrayed her 👌
@@lukim2744 Yeah and then I watched interviews with Jessica and she's so lovely. She really did an amazing job. Definitely deserving of an acting award
IKR
She definitely needs an award for the role. Best thing I've seen this year
This woman is an amazing actress she needs to be in more movies and tv shows I hope her career goes up from here give this woman an Oscar
Yesss! I'm in Los Angeles and Jessica is on a different level. A theatre actress. I am a conservatory trained actress, myself. So many actors who work in film and television and have not done theatre are simply less adept at their craft. Of course natural-born talent is talent. But an actor who has hoaned their craft on the stage is simply at a different level than an actor who can only sustain his motivation and emotional life for a take or two or ten. Very differently skill set from an actor accustomed to performing eight shows a week.
Lets not just give her an Oscar. First she needs to give a hell of a performance in a movie. Which she hasn't done yet. She MIGHT have an Emmy nomination for the series. And should be nominated. But let's not give people things for things they haven't don't yet.
The way she portrayed Martha was mastery over her craft. It was a mixture of sweet and friendly; terrifying and psychotic; yet devastatingly broken and damaged ! I hope she wins all the best actress awards this year ❤ oh … and she’s so pretty too …
You can tell she brought her real life warmth to the role, which is why it was so easy to feel sorry for Martha at certain times
She is so humbled by the possibility of being nominated for an Emmy, but she is better than most of the nominees this year and in general. Undoubtedly, one of the best performances I have ever seen .
Shes better than the nominees but we haven't seen the nominees yet. Don't be absurd. Yes, she will probably get a nomination. And deservedly so. But let's not act like she's already won when we haven't even seen who's nominated.
No wonder why Baby Reindeer about to break records of 'Stranger Things', 'Wednesday' and may break the viewership record of hit Netflix shows according to Mirror recently.. with absolute brilliant Actor & Actress such Jessica Gunning! Phenomenal Extraordinare!
Jessica is so pretty with a warm, ready smile. She radiates happiness! It must have been hard to turn her into Martha. And for her to portray someone so dark. crazed, and sick when her personality is so bright and gregarious is amazing.
Her character was absolutely stunning. She needs more roles. Very powerful performance, it gave me chills.
She's such a great actress that we all got really into the series. We felt all kinds of emotions - we even hated her and felt sorry for her sometimes.
Phenomenal performance. Phenomenal actress.
I do hope she doesn’t get drawn into anything negative from the fallout of Baby Reindeer. I want to see her in more works.
she is absolutely lovely and brilliant. takes guts to play this role and this girl killed it. ❤️
I loved Jessica"s answers, all of them. And she is such a great actress. Can't wait to see more of her work. It has been quite some time without finding tallent like her's.
She deserves an award! She was sensational!
Jessica Gunning is a force of nature.
I am in awe of this actress. She did an outstanding job ❤❤❤ 👏
She blew me completely away with her incredible performance, so real, so true, you forget you are watching a show, it feels like her scenes are taken from real life with a hidden camera! She and Richard are incredible ARTISTS. I really hope she gets the Emmy, few have deserved it as much as she does! AND, she is also adorable in real life!
Neither she nor any other actor from this TV show will win a Grammy ;)
Yea ‘cause they’re not singers. They’re actors/actresses.
@@evermore0 Emmy! Sorry, my mistake!
@@28Andy07 And you are absolutely right, I wrote Grammy instead of Emmy, it teaches me to never write comments at 4am when you are half asleep!
@@DrGarri don't worry, I'm just a smartass :)
I knew her from outlaws and seeing her in reindeer was terrifying. Incredible performance
She’s an amazing actress and so beautiful 😍😍
Such an amazing actress! Martha really got under my skin. She really deserves an Emmy for her performance!
Thanks so much, Perri and Jessica! 🎙 I absolutely loved BABY REINDEER (2024).
I am so glad to see to be recognized. I told my friend "she is amazingly well done in that scene," while watching the show, and my friend did not feel anything. He does not know how to tell a spot on good acting, he only just watch a show that kind of guy. And yes, I am truly madly happy to see to be bigger in her acting career. Lots of love to you, Jessica.
She was amazing. I was thinking throughout the series how her performance had so many similarities with Kathy Bate’s performance in Misery. She killed it
Yes exactly that line, When Martha asked him, "Did someone hurt you? Who was it?" he truly felt her concern and appreciated it for a while. He didn't tell the police about Martha because she's the kind of person who enjoys looking after others. But eventually, it became too much for him to handle.
Genuinely phenomenal actress and truly scary in this performance. I loved her in trollied a few years back and seeing how shes grown and progressing is truly beautiful. Wish her the best and she totally deserves an award for her work! One of many to come!
I remember seeing her in the BBC show Number 9. She has been in a lot of BBC comedies. Glad she is now getting the fame her talent deserves. It shows Britain has so much more quality actors than the rest of world. Jessica was a jobbing sitcom actress, gets a juicy part and puts on a world class performance. Hannah Waddingham was a theatre actress struggling to get any TV work. Gets a big part and knocks out the park and you have Daniel Kaluuya teen soap actor only getting small parts in British movies and lands a one lead role and becomes a world class Oscar winning actor.
I’ve seen two episodes and already had to google this actress bc she’s amazing in her role.
She is such a great actress, she has some Adele vibes 😍
Great Actress 👍🏼
Great actress. She was amazing in baby reindeer reindeer
I have loved Jessica for a while, glad everyone is now sharing my love!
I continue to be immensely impressed by Perri’s ability to delve deeper with each interviewee, I get to know each actress and their craft more deeply than nearly all other media.
Sublime acting by Jessica Gunning. Looking forward to seeing her in future roles.
Great interview, thank you. X
Great actress and great interviewer. I looked forward as much to your questions as to her answers.
Ilana, abbi and Jessica is a dream blunt rotation 😂🤩
Great performance by Jessica Gunning …
Absolutely incredible woman and performance.
They all did a great job 👏
Gunning is just amazing ❤
Fabulous interview. Very interesting and insightful questions. Here’s to Jessica winning that Emmy!
Show was really good and she was great in it. She's also really nice
Wow She is so adorable and lovely!
Jessica is a brilliant actor - great interview 🎉
Her laugh scares me!
I relived Martha all over again!
Undoubtedly deserves an Emmy nomination. Lets see whos shes up against. But definitely deserves to be nominated. And hell, even that alone is a hell of a big deal.
I hope she wins an Emmy
Her portrayal in Baby Reindeer reminds me of the brilliant acting of Kathy Bates in Misery!
her acting was incredible, i really felt it, omg this show, so good!
Fantastic actress and performance, I hope she is recognized and gets some awards
If they ever made a biopic about Cass Elliot, of Mamas and Papas fame, then I think they've found the right person for the role...
She deserves awards!!!!
Jessica Gunning , loving , on Outlaws season 3 , keep em coming 🥰
...the Emmy is already hers...hands down.
Netflix will oftentimes drop something that will blew our minds and we will find ourselves invested , and before we know it, we are all soooo hooked and it’s affecting us deeply! And in the heart of it is the character of Martha who can be seen first as just any other depiction of a stalker but Jessica indeed played it amazingly that we understood and sympathized to her, and kudos to the writing of Richard Gadd for bringing a messy, complicated yet interesting characters all across the board including other characters in this series.
I am cheering for Jessica to be nominated and win come awards season.
Baby Reindeer is such a beautiful powerful and OUTSTANDING tv series with performances that can very well win in BAFTA, SAG, Golden Globes and the EMMYS. Damn, episode 4 left me speechless and come episode 6 , gosh, it wowed me.. that monologue indeed… i was weeping… I hope he will be given a best actor award come awards season for his powerful heartbreaking performance. BRAVO!
Jessica who played Martha was just so terrifying and reminded me of how I felt when I watched Kathy Bates in Misery. Such an excellent performance as Martha!
One of the best indeed i ever watched and knowing it happened to him in reality… i do not know how he wrote all his experiences and relived it again as he was playing the role of Donney… such a powerful series indeed! 10/10
can't take the martha out of her and i'm genuinely scared
another amazing interview!! love the fun little baby reindeer title card at the beginning
👏 to Adam Martignetti for that!
Without Jessica Gunning there is no baby reindeer. Period end of story
Melissa is today my favorite freaking actor, no one has made me feel so many different emotions, she was absolutely brilliant and it will be a long long time till that happens again.
Omg...I love Jessica Gunning. First took notice of her performance in the movie "Bird Box." Fantastic actress....she was amazing in "Baby Reindeer"....she scared me, she was so good. You could believe that what happened really did happen.
OMG I LOVE THIS ACTRESS SHE WAS SO EXCELLENT
what a smile...
I love that she loves Broad City!
Una actuación magistral. Y Jessica es una auténtica belleza!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Great Interview!
Her dimples when she smiles ❤
That laugh ❤😂😂😂😂
She was amazing! And shes so beautiful too
I just needed to see her as a normal person😂
You should see Pride (2014).
brilliant performance
Great questions!
I can imagine her in Hairspray the musical
I was stalking once a person. It was difficult time in my life, and I met outstanding man as I thought, we were meeting only for one week and sometimes wrote messages. Then I wrote that I would like more, and he blocked me. Then I call him in another country, and he said never call back. I was watching all his posts in Twitter, he wrote a book and moved to my city, and I saw in the book some our talks. I did not bother him anymore after calls, but I was really abscessed in my head into him. Now sometimes I watch photo of some people, and I create stories in my head, so I really need to treat myself. And the movie was very helpful for this
She is so classy absolutely stunning
Hello amazing questions..! Thank youuuu❤️
The pacing and intonnation of this interview reminds me of Hot Ones. The only thing missing is the wings (and chilli).
I love her!
How did she nail the character so well and didn’t even meet the woman ?!😮
Gunning great on "the outlaws" as well
Eve Best is the actress in House Of Dragon, the female heir who doesn’t become ruler.
This woman should get an OSCAAAAAR
It's all fun and games until Jessica starts getting stalked by Fiona
W actress
Jess really is a beautiful woman!
Doctor Who Partners In Crime. She had a small role in the episode.
Do a video of unsold cartoon pilots
🤔
It’s something about you Scottish women I love
Anybody agree with ne Clint Eastwood with his hippie look is certainly Up for another Dirty Harry movie along with some ZZZZZZZ's in nap time!!!!🇨🇦😂
Riley Reid does interviews?
Jessica is so lovely.....while Martha - eh, not so much
Jessica is pretty
She looked nothing like the real person