Mitchell Robertson and Stuart Campbell discuss portraying young Niall and Ruben in Half Man
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Updated · The A.V. Club · May 8
Mitchell Robertson and Stuart Campbell discuss portraying young Niall and Ruben in Half Man
10 articles · Updated · The A.V. Club · May 8
Speaking to The A.V. Club, the actors described shaping the younger leads in HBO's bleak miniseries, whose older versions are played by Richard Gadd and Jamie Bell.
Campbell said Niall and Ruben are "toxic but intoxicating", while Robertson said he felt responsible for capturing Niall truthfully as a distinctive Scottish character.
The decades-spanning series explores how emotional repression can turn men toward violence, and follows Gadd's Baby Reindeer as another unsettling, intense drama.
In a story of toxic masculinity, is the quiet “nice guy” Niall actually the more dangerous character?
Does Richard Gadd’s brutal new series offer a path through male trauma, or just a bleak portrait of it?