Baby Reindeer star Nava Mau described working within the hit Netflix present as a cathartic course of.
In an interview with Cosmopolitan, the actress who performed Teri in Richard Gadd’s true story opened up about understanding Gadd’s real-life relationship with a trans girl—that, too, was real love.
“It was simple. It makes me emotional nonetheless,” she recalled. “I simply bear in mind there was a second studying the script for the primary time, and I used to be like, ‘Oh, he actually liked her.”
“It was this bizarre, transcendental expertise of it being what I wanted to see and what it did to heal my very own wounds,” the 32-year-old described the appearing gig as nothing wanting therapeutic.
In Baby Reindeer, Mau performed Teri, an American therapist who meets the lead character, Donny (Gadd), on a relationship app.
While Donny and Teri hit it off, she was ultimately additionally harassed by Martha, the abuser and stalker performed by Jessica Gunning.
Martha’s stalking of Donny creates a wedge between him and Teri that results in their break up.
Donny later sees Teri on the street with one other man, marking the top of their relationship and providing him closure.
