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Richard Gadd

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
575 total appearances

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

I sometimes wonder what they do think.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

They're always so supportive.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

They've never, ever told me, even from a young age when I said, oh, look, I want to try and be an actor and a writer and I want to write my own show and be in it.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

I'm sure a lot of alarm bells goes off in most parents' head.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

Their child becoming an actor, which is, what is it, like 1% or 2% of actors actually make it or whatever.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

I'm sure it's like an alarm bell, but they never ever said no or discouraged me or anything like that, which I think is a testament to them as parents, really, because I think it would be very easy not to.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

I sometimes think as a kid and they were like, I want to be an actor.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

I'd be like, oh God, really?

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

Because it's tough and it's a tough life.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

But I think like they've never discouraged me and they've always watched everything I've done and they've always been super supportive and non-judgmental.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

There's some strong stuff in it that

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

You know, a lot of parents would be like, oh God, you know, and I admit to a lot of things that I think is uncomfortable.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

I'm sure my parents find Baby Reindeer episode four uncomfortable to watch, you know.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

Oh, well, that's the flashback, the kind of famous Baby Reindeer episode where it kind of goes back in time.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

He meets a man at the festival.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

There's this kind of a grooming abuse storyline that kind of goes on.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

with it.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

And, you know, they've seen all that.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

But of course, they knew about all that anyway.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Richard Gadd - On Shame, Sexuality and Success

And so they've just been nothing but supportive, really.