Director Eshref Reybrouck on working with Richard Radd for Half Man: He is brilliant, raw talent, but: he likes to keep control on set
Was he also a pleasure to work with?
Reybrouck: “Richard is brilliant, of course. When you see how many big themes he incorporated into Half Man - love, friendship, masculinity, violence, sex - and what an original, compelling story he then extracted from it… You rarely come across that kind of raw talent, but: he did like to keep control on set. Richard himself indicates that he is somewhere on the autism spectrum. Let’s just say that didn’t always help the production process of Half Man. Fortunately, my colleagues on set, who had previously worked on Baby Reindeer, had warned me about that.”
Give an example.
Reybrouck: “Richard set the bar extremely high for himself, which meant he often chewed on his scripts endlessly. Sometimes it happened that I was handed a sheet of A4 paper just before filming, with only a few instructions for a specific scene. The main thing then was not to panic yourself as the director.”
“But the opposite also happened often. Once Richard had an idea for a scene in his head, it was sometimes difficult to try something else. So it was sometimes a matter of picking your battles.”
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“Oh, those kinds of creative differences on set are quite normal. Richard and I mainly kept pushing each other to tell the best version of the story.”
u/Cautious_Minimum_458 — 3 days ago
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Their fate is foreshadowed in the beginning. Teacher is lecturing about “Romeo and Juliet” when Ruben walks in.
u/Cautious_Minimum_458 — 9 days ago
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you seems pretty sad for a man who said he only cries once in his life
And guess because of which b*tch??
u/Cautious_Minimum_458 — 20 days ago
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This show is insane - Niall be like…
If Ruben beats someone and ends up in prison, it must have been for protecting me.
If Ruben is drowning in debt, it must be because he spent the money on me.
If Ruben’s wife cheats on him, she must be cheating with me.
If Ruben goes to prison again for assault, it must somehow be because of me.
If Ruben cannot have children, then I will become the father.
If my book is about someone, it’s not me but Ruben.
And if Ruben dies… then he must die beside me.
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Niall is not the villain. He’s still a victim, of bullying, neglect, homophobia, and Ruben’s violent possessiveness. But most of all, he’s a victim of himself.
No one hates Niall more than Niall hates Niall. His insecurity makes him feel invisible, so he turns Ruben into the protagonist of his own life.
He resents Ruben’s spotlight but can’t live without it. He fears Ruben’s violence but craves being at the center of it. He wants to escape Ruben, yet falls apart whenever Ruben stops paying attention to him.
The tragedy of Niall is that he can’t let go of the belief that Ruben is also the only person who has ever made him feel seen, safe, or loved (he could have the escape with Alby but in the end choose to go into the barn with Ruben, knows things would end in tragedy.)
Watching Niall destroy himself is infuriating, not because he’s evil, but because he’s painfully human. I blame him, but I also feel sorry for him. Niall never learns how to love himself. He only learns how to pity himself.
u/Cautious_Minimum_458 — 25 days ago