‘Baby Reindeer’, the new Netflix series that is trending in particular because Richard Gadd, the creator of the story, revealed that the series exposes important and difficult parts of his life. Although it is based on his experiences, Gadd was very careful about the identities of the characters in the story such as Martha Scott and Darrien O’Connor.
Fans of the series have tried to find out who is behind the character of Darrien, who is undoubtedly the most disturbing in history.
Darrien within the series
Well, within the story of Baby Reindeer, Darrien O’Connor is a producer whom the main character, Donny Dunn, meets during his stay at the Edinburgh Festival and whom the producer supports throughout these events. As time goes by, O’Connor and Donny become very close and the producer promises to support his career as a comedian.
As time goes by, Donny becomes involved in a series of manipulations that included the use of hard drugs such as heroin, LSD, cocaine, to name just a few. Darrien’s character uses all of these situations to end up sexually abusing Donny repeatedly.
Some clues
Although within the story they do not mention their ages, it can be intuited that the character of Donny Dunn is around 20 years old when he meets Darrien O’Connor and he would be between 35 and 40 years old, from what the audience has come to intuit that the character would currently be about 55 years old.
Likewise, in the plot we are not introduced to any partner or children of Darrien’s character, and he even mentions that he identifies as polyamorous and pansexual. An important fact is that the character lives alone and it is a fact that O’Connor uses to his advantage to continue abusing Donny without anyone noticing.
Although there is no data to confirm what type of studies Darrien had, it can be thought that his training includes Communication Sciences, Digital Media, Business or even Film, Theater or any focus on entertainment in general.
In Baby Reindeer, the character was presented as an important producer in various genres, however, his interest in the production of comedy content was greatly highlighted.
But who is he?
Some fans have dedicated the last few days to investigating who this mysterious and dark character is with the aim of denouncing him and doing justice for Richard Gadd. And although the creator of this story has taken care of the details to avoid future problems, there are those who say that the real Darrien O’Connor is the English producer Sean Foley, this due to the physical resemblance he has to the fictional character, but above all because suspiciously , the producer resigned from the company The Rap, creator of Baby Reindeer.
However, Richard Gadd denied the theory and asked the audience to stop bothering Foley who is the victim of speculation. In addition, he reminded fans that the true goal of the series is not the attack or the search for culprits.
