Overview
- The series premiered at Glasgow Film Theatre with Gadd promoting the show while a defamation suit tied to Baby Reindeer against Netflix continues.
- The six-part drama will roll out weekly on BBC iPlayer.
- Half Man tracks Ruben and Niall from their teens into adulthood and probes male repression and the struggle to love.
- Gadd plays the adult Ruben opposite Jamie Bell as Niall, with Stuart Campbell and Mitchell Robertson portraying their younger selves.
- Gadd began writing the project the day after finishing Baby Reindeer and adopted a strict diet and six-day workout plan to bulk up for the role.