sooo i transcribed and translated the part about Richard from that long-ass interview with Evgueni Galperine
“The lead actor is also the main writer. He is a writer, and he was also the showrunner. So he was the one who approved the music, shaped the ideas, and made the final decisions.
Look, in the first show this person, who I consider a genius, was completely unknown, so the roles were distributed differently. He was the showrunner, but at the same time there were also directors — two of them, actually. There was also a female director, a Polish woman, who was extremely talented. And there were producers, people who understood the process, because one of the producers was actually a screenwriter himself.
So they guided him, because Richard has this quality: he is obsessive. That is absolutely his talent, but it can also be his weakness, because at some point you need to channel that energy and make sure, for example, that he doesn’t make the composer write 18 different versions of the music for the rape scene.
(Here he is referring to the story he told earlier about Baby Reindeer — how they spent a very long time working on the music for episode four because nothing felt right to Richard. Evgueni actually had to tell him to stop because he couldn’t find the right thing for a scene Richard had actually lived through.)
On Baby Reindeer, there was this wonderful balance, this equilibrium between his will, his vision, and the voices of other people.
But in Half Man, which we have just released, we found ourselves with Richard as someone who had become a star, someone who nobody could really challenge anymore. He is a wonderful, very polite, and likeable person, but he is a polite and likeable psychopath.
He is obsessed with his idea, and nobody could stop him anymore. There was no one beside him — no producer, no one else — who could say: “Richard, maybe let’s keep going, let’s finish the episode, let’s finish the series.”
And there was a situation where the HBO and BBC release was only four days away, and the series still wasn’t finished. They were finishing it at night, literally the day before release. All the technical teams were simply waiting for the material to arrive so they could upload it to the platform. That’s how far it went.
But on the other hand, you know, this balance — when a person is obsessive, talented, and so on — rarely exists somewhere in the middle. It always goes too far in one direction. And on one hand, this is exactly how these kinds of things are created.
A star is born. Now the whole question is how long his journey will be. But the truth is that the second series everyone was waiting for turned out to be incredibly talented.
The scenes and the dialogue are incredible. There is a final scene in episode four that lasts 20 minutes — it is simply a dialogue between two guys. The level is absolutely unbelievable. I don’t know what in television could compare to it.
And of course, it was recognized — it simply exploded everywhere.”
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