Meet Lumon’s Child Boss: ‘Severance’ Star Sarah Bock on Mastering Ms. Huang’s Sinister Stare and Her First Set Experience: ‘I Definitely Had a Lot of Imposter Syndrome’

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Anna Tingley SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 1 of “Severance,” streaming now on Apple TV+.

When a 15-year-old Sarah Bock first read the script for the second season premiere of “Severance” way back in 2022, all she knew about her character was a job title: the “newest deputy manager” of Lumon Industries — a corporate position that would seem much too mature to be played by a high-schooler who looks barely old enough to be an office intern, let alone the boss.

Of course, that was the point. “I didn’t know much about her other than her position but I did know that she was unusually young,” Bock, now an 18-year-old college freshman at Northwestern University, tells Variety about what creator Dan Erickson and director/executive producer Ben Stiller told her about the role. “But they said in the audition that she might be a little bit more in control than she seems, which was kind of my first clue into her odd but definitely strong-willed personality.” Bock’s Ms.

Huang — yes, she did ultimately get a name — is one of the oddest plot lines in the second season’s premiere, of which there are many.