Baby Reindeer actress Nava Mau, who plays Richard Gadd's transgender ex-girlfriend, 賞賛するs show's 'generous' creator and says he '株d a lot' about his real-life experiences on 始める，決める

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The trans actress who played Richard Gadd's love 利益／興味 in the 攻撃する，衝突する Netflix?series Baby Reindeer has 賞賛するd the show's creator for his 'generous' nature and says he 株d a lot about his real-life experience.

Nava Mau, 31, from New Mexico, writer and showrunner Gadd, 39, was 'very generous' in giving her （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） about his real-life ex, whom she was playing.

However, she 追加するd that, にもかかわらず having a strong working 関係 with the comedian, they used an intimacy 調整者／コーディネーター on 始める，決める 予定 to the 'unique' circumstances.? ?

The six-part series, created by Richard Gadd, is based on his own experience of stalking and horrific 性の 強襲，強姦s, showing his stalking ordeal 広げる as the character of Martha (Jessica Gadd) becomes ますます obsessed with him.

Teri is another 主要な character, appearing in all seven episodes, and is Gadd's trans girlfriend, who draws on his real-life experiences of a 関係 with an 無名の trans woman.

The actress who plays Teri in Baby Reindeer, Nava Mau (pictured), 明らかにする／漏らすd an intimacy 調整者／コーディネーター helped navigate the show's 'unique' circumstances, にもかかわらず Richard Gadd 存在 'very 株ing'??

In conversation with GQ, Nava commented on the 'unique' 状況／情勢 of playing a love 利益／興味 based on someone's real life, which 最高潮の場面d the importance of an intimacy 調整者／コーディネーター to manage 境界 work, 同意, safety, and believability - something she said was 'helpful'.

The actress, who also featured in the?HBO Max series, 世代, 追加するd that the intimacy 調整者／コーディネーター, Elle McAlpine, helped encourage a 本物の on-審査する 関係 between herself and Gadd.

Nava continued: 'It's a very unique 状況／情勢 to be playing a love 利益／興味 to a character that is based on someone's real life, played by the real person who is also the showrunner and the only writer on the 事業／計画（する）.'

The actress valued the intimacy 調整者／コーディネーター in this rare instance for tips on intimate scenes and how to 伝える the 関係 as 本物の.

Nava played Richard's love 利益／興味 in the show, who is based on his real-life 無名の trans ex-partner?

Pictured in 2021 HBO series 世代, Nava got her 事実上の／代理 打開 in a 類似の way to new 同僚 Gadd, after 令状ing and 主要な in Waking Hour - a?film based on her real experiences as a trans woman getting into a 関係 with a cisgender man

にもかかわらず welcoming Elle's presence on 始める，決める, Nava explained that Gadd was 'generous' with （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） on his past experiences.

'Richard 株d a lot with me. Richard was very generous with 株ing, you know, pieces of his own experience and the real-life 関係 that 奮起させるd this,' Nava said.

Donny's partner in Netflix 演劇 Baby Reindeer is American therapist Teri, who he is in love with rather than his stalker, Martha.

Gadd, who both wrote and starred in the show, told The 独立した・無所属, that Donny's 関係 arc with Teri drew on his own experiences of a 関係 with an 無名の trans woman.

'It's in the public consciousness now, but it wasn't 支援する then, when I was dating,' he explained.

'It felt so new that it 追加するd a 確かな 圧力, to me, that I really 悔いる now. But that's what it 調査するs in the show. This story was 始める，決める 支援する in a time when things were very different.'

反映するd in the series, Gadd 追加するd that feelings of s hame around his sexuality kept him from telling the truth about his 指名する and 占領／職業 from her.

However, he has also said that his girlfriend became 'the 発言する／表明する?of 推論する／理由 in my life at that point' although he never 'listened to her as much as I should have'.

どこかよそで, Nava 賞賛するd Baby Reindeer for the 'groundbreaking' 傾向 of 雇うing a trans actress in the show.

Born in Mexico City on May 14, 1992, Nava Mau was raised in San Antonio and is now an award-winning actress, director and cultural 労働者.

Her 打開 bore many similarities to her new 同僚 Gadd's, as she both wrote and starred in Waking Hour - a short film based on her real experiences as a trans woman getting into a 関係 with a cisgender man.?

She played Sofia, a young trans woman who 会合，会うs a cis man 指名するd Isaac at a party.

Nava said:?'This still feels groundbreaking to have a trans woman be one of the main characters in a series that feels like it's written in a respectful and loving and nuanced way, so it's an 栄誉（を受ける） for me to have that 適切な時期'

Speaking to Out, she explained: 'I had recently started dating straight, cisgender men and as a trans woman I was not 用意が出来ている.?I had to learn a lot of hard lessons when I started dating straight cis men.?

'Waking Hour was 奮起させるd by personal experiences I've had, but I 手配中の，お尋ね者 it to end 異なって than how a lot of my stories have ended.?

'I 手配中の，お尋ね者 Sofia to be a character who realizes in the moment that she can 演習 choice because so often I have not realized that I have the 力／強力にする of choice. And I know that's the 事例／患者 for a lot of people.'

Nava then appeared in Netflix's 2020 文書の,?公表，暴露, to help 調査／捜査する how trans people are 描写するd in Hollywood and how that had bled into wider American culture.

She returned to 事実上の／代理 as a character called Ana in 2021 HBO series 世代 - a series about high school students '調査するing sexuality, 実験（する）ing 深く，強烈に 堅固に守るd beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their 保守的な community'.

Away from the 審査する, Nava spent eight years working around 'anti-暴力／激しさ, 傷をいやす／和解させるing 司法（官）, and political education', によれば her website. This has 伴う／関わるd public speaking, パネル盤 discussions and 協議するing.?

Nava is also an editor of the 来たるべき anthology 楽園 on the 利ざやs: Worldmaking by Trans Women of Color.