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Richard Gadd

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

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?

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

but we believed it because we hadn't really heard of Ricky Gervais before.

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

And therefore we believe that David Brent was an actual living, breathing human being.

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

desperate to be liked, failing as a boss, we wouldn't have bought into the art as much.

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

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.

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

And I think people on the process thought I was crazy saying, no, crazy, but it had to be Jess Gunning.

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

It had to be.

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

Yeah, yeah.

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

Go on, explain it.

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

Yeah.

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

I think sometimes labels around sexuality can tend to be quite a sort of like normative societal thing.

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

Like you have to be one of any three.

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

And I still think a large portion of society don't believe you can be one of the three.

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

I don't believe you can be bisexual.

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

I always think that it's still a large portion of society that

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

believes you sort of can't, you're one or the other.

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

But I actually think we have butt scratched the surface of sexuality in a way.

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

I think there's so many complications to it.

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

I always think that a lot of people are attracted to say femininity across all spectrums of sort of genders.

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

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