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Severance Season 2 Interview: Stars Britt Lower, Zach Cherry & John Turturro About That Unique Episode
By Alleef Ashaari|January 17, 2025|0 Comment
Directed and executive produced by Ben Stiller and created, written and executive produced by Dan Erickson, the 10-episode second season of Severance premiered on Apple TV+ with the first episode on Friday, 17 January 2025 followed by one episode every Friday through 21 March 2025.
In Severance, Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the centre of an unravelling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work… and of himself. In season two, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.
Severance Season 2 reunites its ensemble cast of stars including Emmy Award nominee Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, Emmy Award winner John Turturro, Academy Award winner Christopher Walken and Academy and Emmy Award winner Patricia Arquette, and welcomes new series regular Sarah Bock.
Check out our review of Severance Season 2 by heading over here.
We interviewed Britt Lower, Zach Cherry and John Turturro.
This interview has been edited for clarity.
Zach Cherry: You know, I was always, I guess I was always hoping and anticipating that we’d see more of more of the story with my character.
Britt Lower: Yeah. I mean, we were on a cliffhanger, just like the audience, you know, in the moments after the show came out. You know, excited to know what comes next.
John Turturro: I think people would have been really angry if we would have stopped to show up. I mean, it’s a good ending, you know what I mean, but they would have had to figure it out themselves. Yeah. So, yeah.
Britt Lower: There’s this meta quality of being an actor on Severance and that there’s, you know, we go to our trailer and we put on our uniform for the day, and we assume a new identity, much like the Outies are putting on a uniform to go assume a new identity as an Innie but I guess the contradiction there is that the characters may not find very much meaning in their work, but I find a great deal of meaning, and particularly working with just so many incredible artists who are just warm and generous creatively and in every single department.
You know, we’ll be in the hair makeup trailer in the morning, and everyone’s kind of theorizing about the scene coming up and digging into the details. And you know, then you show up on set, and like every prop has been so cared for, and every, every lightning choice is specific, and you just feel like you’re we’re all holding this collective puzzle. That’s really, really fun to make.
John Turturro: It was cold. That’s all. I’m gonna say it was cold. It was really cold. It was cold before. The water around, the water in the water it was cold. Yeah, yeah. So you know, actors have to act in all different temperatures, and that should be part of the acting training program I was saying before to Brit and Zach, yeah. But it was, was challenging and kind of thrilling to be up in the mountains doing that episode.
Britt Lower: We also got to work with the sun, you know? And yeah, working against the sun setting is like a really different experience than being in a studio where the lighting is.
Zach Cherry: And you know, you there is always this meta quality on the show. It was our characters’ first time working outside, and it was for a lot of us on the show, our first time as actors getting outside of the studio. So there is always this mirroring of experience that happens, which is interesting.
Britt Lower: We had to get up to the place where we were filming. We had to ride in these all-terrain vehicles called gators. Yeah. So the journey of getting to set was like, it was like its own, like experience. It was like, on the side of a mountain, snowy mountain.
Zach Cherry: We had to take a van to a parking lot in a snow vehicle and take it up the mountain and then hike like another rope, 20 minutes with a rope. Yeah, that I was exactly gonna bring that up, and then the bathrooms were back down at the bottom of the mountain. So you had to be really prepared.
John Turturro: Yeah, it was, for me, it was a, it was a good thing, because I’ve been through something, you know, personally. And so it was, really, was kind of a, the healing thing for me, to be outside and to be with them, I really, I appreciated it on a double level for myself.
Britt Lower: Yeah, and it was a, you know, the team building episode, and I think it, it had that effect on us too, you know for sure.
Zach Cherry: Well, I’ll, I’ll admit that my Innie is the character that I got to know first. So I, I certainly have a soft spot for the Innie, but it was fun to get to know the Outie this season as well.
John Turturro: I think it’s right. Britt’s been very articulate about it, you know, it’s like two sides of a record, you know, and it’s, it’s, you know, it’s basically the same person, but in different, you know, circumstances, they have more access to their history or to their baggage, but it’s all, it does connect somewhere. It’s not two separate characters. It’s just, it’s like different music Brit has said, and I think that’s a very good analogy or metaphor.
Britt Lower: Yeah, and I think it’s, it’s really relatable. I think as humans, we have an inner critic and an inner child. And you know, you’ll, you’ll be one way in one environment and another way in another environment. And that inner critic can come in and be like, Oh, I maybe prefer this other version of myself, or how can I? How can I grow from this way that I am here versus how I am here? So I have, I have empathy for both sides, but I also, like Zach, you know, we meet Heliar. I’ve spent more time with Heliar than any and she is certainly a refreshing energy to be, to be with. She kind of just doesn’t care what anyone thinks, and that’s refreshing.
John Turturro: I just like being Irving. No, I can’t say what I would, you know, prefer it to me. It’s all connected. I mean, being honest, you know, I like being the Innie but being outside, because to me, that was, we got to play a lot of different things within that. And also, when you’re the Innie, you have to figure out how much bleeds through from your Outie, you know, whereas your Outie, you’re there, you know, the whole way. But to me, that’s the whole question of the show. Do you know? And I wouldn’t want to say, Oh, I like this better than that, so it’s all interesting and problem to grapple with.
Britt Lower: Yeah, so at the end of season one, they’ve all had a glimpse of who they are on the outside, and I think they’re even hungrier for meaning in their own lives. And each of the characters are exploring new connections or deepening their connections with other people. So for me, it’s like the first season was about cracking open identity, and each of them reckoning with like, who am I in relationship to my work? And then I think Season Two becomes about, Well, who am I for the people I love? Like, how do I show up for them?
Zach Cherry: I think also in season one, at least for me, a lot of it was about coming together with the other folks in the office, and this very shared mission. But then once they have this additional information about what’s going on outside, their goals might not always be perfectly pointed in the same direction. So, for me this season, a lot of it was about, you know, how to balance that desire for connection and solidarity, but also this new information and a little bit of selfishness that comes up for Dylan, and seeing how he kind of navigates that.
John Turturro: I think I don’t remember. I mean, in season one, I kept doing these paintings in my dressing room, which I was practising to do at the you know, you see him painting this hallway over and over and trying to figure out what’s going on. And I think that was something that was a big, like, kind of mystery clue. And I remember actually shooting that, and how I got really involved in doing it. I could do it really fast or really slow.
And I thought, in a way, that was what interested me about being in the show was like this hallway, you know, like, what is going on in this place? And, you know, why am I here, and why have I decided, you know, to be here, you know, so that’s my you know, there’s a whole backstory to that, but I thought that was something that really, you know, carried me, and then connecting to Chris that then this personal thing happens, so he’s got his team, and then this other thing happened, so there was a lot of balls to juggle in the air, which is fun to do, interesting to do.
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