Richard Gadd-Starring HBO, BBC Series ‘Half Man’ Adds to Ensemble Cast

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Tue, February 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM UTC

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Mitchell Robertson, Stuart Campbell, Neve McIntosh, and Marianne McIvor have joined the cast of the HBO and BBC drama Half Man, formerly titled Lions, from Richard Gadd.
The series follows estranged brothers Niall and Ruben, played by Jamie Bell and Richard Gadd, whose presence at a wedding leads to an explosion of violence spanning four decades.
Half Man, now shooting in Scotland, is a six-parter with an ensemble cast that includes Charlie De Melo, Bilal Hasna, Julie Cullen, Philippine Velge, Amy Manson, and others.

Mitchell Robertson, Stuart Campbell, Neve McIntosh and Marianne McIvor have joined the cast for the HBO and BBC drama Half Man, formerly titled Lions , from Richard Gadd.

They were added after Baby Reindeer creator and star Gadd and Jamie Bell were earlier announced as leads for Half Man , which which will run on HBO in the United States, and the BBC in the U.K. and Ireland. The series, which Gadd is also writing and executive producing, marks his first project since Baby Reindeer became a Netflix breakout and multiple Emmy winner.

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Half Man follows estranged brothers Niall (Bell) and Ruben (Gadd), whose presence at a wedding leads to an explosion of violence that catapults the audience back over four decades from their first meeting as teenagers to their falling out as adults. The six-parter, now shooting in Scotland, sees Robertson playing young Niall; Campbell as young Ruben; McIntosh in the role of Lori, Niall's mother; and McIvor as Maura, Ruben's mother.

The ensemble cast for the a decades-spanning and complicated story of two men includes Charlie De Melo, Bilal Hasna, Julie Cullen, Philippine Velge, Amy Manson, Stuart McQuarrie, Piers Ewart, Scot Greenan, Charlotte Blackwood and Calum Manchip.

HBO joined the BBC to order the series in June, 2024. Lindsay Salt, who commissioned Baby Reindeer for Netflix, is now director of drama at the BBC and helped bring Half Man to the BBC and HBO.

Gadd, who also has a first-look deal at Netflix (signed after the Half Man series pickup), is executive producing the drama with Tally Garner and Morven Reid of Mam Tor Productions (a Banjilay UK company), Gaynor Holmes for the BBC and Gavin Smith for BBC Scotland. Wendy Griffin is producing. Alexandra Brodski and Eshref Reybrouck will direct.

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