'Baby Reindeer' star Jessica Gunning chats with THR at the Critics Choice Awards carpet and reveals how she approaches criticism and shares where she is keeping all her awards. Plus, she talks about the highlight of this awards season run and how 'Baby Reindeer' has changed her career.
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00:00How are you two bonded over this awards season?
00:02Yeah, well I've known Andrew for years. We did a film called Pride together about 10, 11 years ago
00:07and he's one of my really good friends. So yeah, it's been very amazing being out here together
00:10and doing the whole thing. It's incredible, yeah, yeah.
00:13Congratulations on more recognition here for Baby Reindeer.
00:16How do you approach reviews and criticism? Do you read them or how do you, what do you kind of...
00:21Very lucky with Baby Reindeer that it was welcomed and, you know,
00:26received really well by everyone who watched it, which I think is just testament to
00:29Richard and the show and his writing and the whole, the whole of the show.
00:32So yeah, we've been very, very lucky and it's been, you know, embraced by so many people.
00:36The fact that we're even over here, let alone being nominated, is incredible.
00:39We have to kind of keep pinching ourselves really, yeah, yeah.
00:42Where are you keeping all these awards that you're racking up?
00:45They're on a shelf in my living room, yeah, so I see them every day.
00:48Still again, I can't believe it really. I'm like, huh? Yeah.
00:52What's kind of been the highlight of this whole run of this last year?
00:56Oh my God, there's been so many. I think it's been the people I've had a chance to meet,
01:00people who the show has really touched, it's been really profound and also just on a personal level,
01:05one of my favourite actors of all time is Kathy Bates and she actually gave me the Emmy Award
01:10and the Golden Globe Award, so that was like, you know, like life kind of made,
01:14life kind of made, you know, so it was great, yeah, yeah.
01:16And getting to hang out with Andrew, of course, as well, has been great, yeah.
01:20Kathy Bates here again tonight, I think.
01:22Oh, great, great. I'll say hi. Yeah, I'm a pal, you know.
01:25Third time's a charm, yeah.
01:29And how has this kind of changed your career and I'm sure like the things you're getting offered
01:33and getting asked to do and all of that?
01:35Yeah, well, I've just been, it's been announced I'm in a new Steven Soderbergh film,
01:39which is very exciting to be part of that, but yeah, it's been amazing.
01:42I never thought that it would be like this, but I'm kind of not really thinking what's next,
01:47just more like I'm just so proud to be part of a show that's been seen by so many people,
01:51so just trying to stay in the moment, as it were, yeah, yeah.