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Baby Reindeer heads to Hollywood! Jessica Gunning has a glamorous makeover as she joins Richard Gadd and Nava Mau for the LA screening after show becomes a surprise Netflix hit

The cast of Baby Reindeer continued to ride the wave of the show being a huge Netflix hit as they attended the photo call for the screening in LA on Tuesday.

Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning beamed as they posed arm in arm and joined Nava Mau and others for a Q and A on stage.

In the show, Richard's stalker is revealed as a Scottish woman in her 40s called Martha Scott living in Camden, played by actress Jessica, 38.

The actress had a glamorous Hollywood makeover for the trip and looked worlds away from Martha.

Jessica looked lovely in a green chiffon jumpsuit which have a deep V neckline and fluted sleeves while Richard, who plays show lead Donny Dunn in the real life story, rocked a grey suit with white shirt to the screening.
Jessica had a bouncy blow-dry for the screening and opted for a full face of make-up.

Richard and Nava, who looked effortlessly stylish in a burgundy trench coat, appeared in a playful mood as they snapped selfies.

The programme shows Martha's obsession developing as she emails Donny hundreds of times a day, turning up outside his house and harassing his family and friends. It is based on Richard's real life experience.

The trip comes after Richard says he has banned his parents from watching his unexpected Netflix smash hit.

He said he struggled to have his concerns about the woman, named Martha in the show, taken seriously by police because, he says, the idea of a man being stalked by a female admirer can be 'trivialised'.

But while 14 million people have pored over every detail of the show, Richard's parents in his native Fife are not among them - as the comedian has banned them from watching it and pays for their Netflix, so will know if they do.

But he says making the show with Netflix, based on two critically acclaimed shows he wrote and performed at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, was cathartic and helped him come to terms with what happened earlier in his life.

'If people see it they will know almost everything about me. They might judge, they might not agree, and that innately comes with some degree of anxiety, but that's what I signed up for,' he told The Times.

He pitched the show to Netflix after combining two critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe shows, Baby Reindeer and Monkey See, Monkey Do, which addressed his stalking and sexual assault respectively.

Over a period of four-and-a-half years, the actor said he received 41,071 emails, 744 tweets, letters totalling 106 pages and 350 hours of voicemail messages.Richard told the Times police did not take his concerns seriously despite his worries about how far the real-life Martha might go in her twisted pursuits.

'When a man gets stalked it can be portrayed in films and television as a sexy thing, like a femme fatale who gradually becomes more sinister. It doesn't carry as much threat of physical violence, is less common and can be trivialised,' he said.

He now says he is less likely to trust people after his adverse experiences with both men and women.

Richard concluded: 'I used to enter situations with such abandonment, never thinking ahead and throwing my trust into people, and I got burnt. Now getting close to people can be hard.'

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