Richard Gadd

And I sort of, and then it stuck for ages and I was like, oh dear, I better do something about this title.

But when Half Man came, it felt right.

It just felt so right for the project.

It has sort of multi-reason, I suppose, the title.

I never usually like to say particularly, like, this is what the title means, because I sometimes think the best way of leaving sort of art is people questioning why, why something's been done that way.

you could take it in so many ways it can be about how a lot of men just feel incomplete as men you know you can take it as the fact they both need each other to feel complete and I think that's the best kind of way to to do art I hope or I think is that is to leave people pondering a little bit

Yes, yes, without doubt.

I mean, even talking about that, I mean, it was, I remember it was the 13th of...

December, I'm trying to get my dates, 2023, I think, when I finished Baby Reindeer.

And Half Man was a project that I knew I wanted to return to next.

I know the BBC were very keen to get started on it.

And I remember finishing Baby Reindeer, it was a sound mix.

It was very late on the 13th.

And then the next morning at 8am, I went into the office, had a meeting and started writing Half Man.

Literally like less than 24 hours, I turned the other direction and started working on the next project.

And I think this time I'm definitely going to take a break.

But television is so intense.

Doing two back to back like this in such a short space of time has made me realise that that is a big failure in my life for sure.

I've always had a sort of obsessive mind and obsessive sort of, you know, like if something, even from a young age, even like, even tiny, tiny kid, if I, like wrestling figures, I collect them en masse, you know, and become completely immersed in like wrestling figures or Boglins or I think Pokemon cards at one stage, Beanie Babies, all the rest of it, like obsessive, throwing myself into everything.

to a huge degree.