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Severance Season 2 Interview: Star & Legendary Actor Christopher Walken About His Work-Life Balance

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 Christopher Walken.

This interview has been edited for clarity.

What’s the most exciting thing about returning to Severance in Season 2?

Christopher Walken: Well, I, in the second season, I get to go home, so that was nice, but again, coming back to it was a pleasure because of Ben Stiller, who I’ve known for a long time, and John Turturro, who I’ve known for a long time, and the other actors who I don’t know that well, but I like them all very much. And you know, going on a set, getting to work every day, that’s what I do.

How do you maintain your work-life balance?

Christopher Walken: Well, like Severance, it’s kind of mysterious, but as I get older, it’s more difficult to go away for a long time, to leave home and to live in hotels and so on. And that was another wonderful thing about this. There were the scripts. There was Ben Stiller, John Turturro, all the other good actors. And also it all happened in the, in the New York area. So a lot of the time, I got to go home at night, so the whole day, it was a very good job. You know, that’s all there is to it.

How do you separate your work and home lives?

Christopher Walken: Well, that’s very interesting, because I suppose there is a difference for most people between workplace and personal life, home life, but something about actors that I think people don’t think about is that most of an actor’s work is done in private. You know you have a script, and you have to study it. You have to learn lines, which, for me, is very difficult and very tedious. Sometimes there’s research involved. You have to look in certain books, watch certain movies, so it’s a very private thing that that you do, and then you go to the set and you perform. And I think that people feel that that’s the job.

You know the job is going to work when the camera says, you know, action cut and then you go home. But in fact, an actor’s work mostly happens at home or wherever it is that they’re private by themselves. What you do on the set is important, but the getting ready, you know, the being prepared, happens pretty much all by yourself. So I think that an actor has kind of a severed life in the first place. That’s how I thought about it. There’s a place that you go to do one thing, and there’s a place that you do another.

The difference with Severance is that you know that expression, that the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. I’ve never met anybody like that, but I think that’s the situation in Severance, where you have this work life and a personal life and you don’t know what one side doesn’t know what the other side is, and that’s what makes Severance mysterious. I realize, it’s a long answer.

How has your career as an actor evolved over the years?

Christopher Walken: I don’t really know how to answer that. I don’t know if I’ve evolved or when. Not as your thing I know about my career is that sometimes, sometimes I’m very good, and sometimes I’m not. And the why is something I don’t know anything about. I’ve always felt that as an actor I have to be it’s very important for me to be a little bit lucky, and that it happens, how you feel the day you go to shoot the scene. You know, whether you’ve slept well, whether you know, there’s a certain amount of, I hate to call it inspiration, but, but there is a certain amount of luck involved in being an actor.

For me, not everybody. There are actors who are just always good. But for me, it’s always a little bit of a roll of the dice. You know, that’s why it’s hard to answer that question. You know, it has to do with just what kind of day it is, how I feel. I used to, I used to worry about things a lot more. I think as time goes by, I think less, which is very good for an actor, thinking too much is very inhibiting.

What can we expect from your character, Burt, in Season 2?

Christopher Walken: Well, you see him outside of work. You know. You see him at home. You see him with his partner. He dresses differently, yeah, you see him. What do they call it? You see him. You see him personally.

What was it like building the relationship between your character and John Turturro’s?

Christopher Walken: Well, that’s the thing that John Turturro and I have known each other when we were very young actors, actors, you know, in New York, struggling, trying to get a part in an Off-Broadway play, meeting, having coffee. I’ve known John Turturro a long time. And you know, he’s kind of a brother, and you know, the chance to be his mate in this show was, it had a lot of advantages. As I think, actors, you know, they bring their history with them when they come to work.

And the audience not only sees the actors and what they’re doing now, they also see what they know about them from before. You know the other movies that they’ve seen them in. You know things that they’ve heard about them, things that maybe they’ve read about them, and you see all of that without anybody having to say anything. So I think that aspect of John Turturro and Chris Walken is very useful for playing Burt and Irving.

As a star in Severance, do you what’s going to happen or do you also experience the mysteries as they happen?

Christopher Walken: Well, you know you know what’s going to happen because you have the script. But the best thing about show business is, and the best thing about acting is the stuff that isn’t in the script. You know that when you’re doing things on the set, accidents happen, something happens that you weren’t expecting, and the scene changes. And I’ve never made a movie or a TV show where, when I watched it, I didn’t think, Oh, that’s interesting. I didn’t know that was happening.

You know that this is different from what I thought it was going to be whenever I watch something that I that I’ve done, I think this is different than I thought, and it’s because of all that stuff. And so when you when you’re when you’re being an actor, you know what’s going to happen, but you don’t really, because if it’s good, it will surprise you, and if you can’t surprise yourself, you can’t surprise an audience.

It’s been several years since the first season. How difficult was it to return to your role in Severance?

Christopher Walken: No, it wasn’t. It was easy. It was a pleasure, you know, and it’s, it’s nice, you know, especially an actor my age, it’s nice to have a job and to be with people that you like, and to go to work and to make money. And so, that wasn’t difficult.

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