Richard Gadd
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I think if we watch The Office and bad example, but Brad Pitt was playing David Brent, it would be like, isn't Brad Pitt doing an amazing, amazing turn as this guy running this office?
but we believed it because we hadn't really heard of Ricky Gervais before.
And therefore we believe that David Brent was an actual living, breathing human being.
desperate to be liked, failing as a boss, we wouldn't have bought into the art as much.
And so I'm extremely pro casting unknowns, but there was some extraordinary that I'm not allowed to say, actors who wanted to play Martha, like extraordinary.
And I think people on the process thought I was crazy saying, no, crazy, but it had to be Jess Gunning.
It had to be.
Yeah, yeah.
Go on, explain it.
Yeah.
I think sometimes labels around sexuality can tend to be quite a sort of like normative societal thing.
Like you have to be one of any three.
And I still think a large portion of society don't believe you can be one of the three.
I don't believe you can be bisexual.
I always think that it's still a large portion of society that
believes you sort of can't, you're one or the other.
But I actually think we have butt scratched the surface of sexuality in a way.
I think there's so many complications to it.
I always think that a lot of people are attracted to say femininity across all spectrums of sort of genders.
you know uh our masculinity across all spectrums of of gender and sex and i think we're so complicated in a lot of ways and i think every time i've tried to say i'm this way and i'm going to leave the house today and i'm going to be this and this is the way i'm going to be like nothing's ever really stuck and i i just don't realize that it's almost like i'm just kind of exhausted of asking myself the question almost in the way