‘Severance’ Creator Explains How Keanu Reeves Voice Cameo Came About

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SPOILER: This post contains details about the Season 2 premiere of Severance. As Severance returns to office, fans might recognize a familiar voice welcoming them back to the show’s surreal corporate life.

Series creator Dan Erickson recently explained how Keanu Reeves came to make a voice cameo as the building during the ‘Lumon is Listening’ video in the Apple TV+ sci-fi series’ Season 2 premiere. “All I can say is that we talked about a couple of different people for that role,” he told Collider. “We always wanted it to be somebody that people have certain associations with, but also, it had to be a very warm presence.

The Lumon building is very friendly in the context of this video, and there’s a friendliness to that particular voice and a heart to that particular voice.” From Erickson and EP/director Ben Stiller, Severance is set in a world in which a technology allows corporate employees to surgically divide their memories of their work and personal lives.

In the 10-episode second season, Mark (Adam Scott) and his friends learn the dire consequences of meddling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.