‘Severance’ Director Ben Stiller, Creator and Stars Reveal Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Inside-Out Finale
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business WriterThe first season of Apple’s “Severance” concludes with a jam-packed finale that sees the Innie ver- sions of MDR employees Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower) and Irving (John Turturro) awaken in the real world for the first time during an escape attempt, which leads Helly to find out she’s actually the Lumon CEO’s daugh- ter, Mark to realize his wife, Gemma (Dichen Lachman), is alive and Irving to discover Burt’s (Christopher Walken) Outtie has a part- ner, all in just a few scenes.
Constructing the episode in which Milchick (Tramell Tillman) and Cobel (Patricia Arquette) realize what’s going on and then try to stop it, all while Dylan (Zach Cherry) is desperately trying to simultaneously hold the control room switches that will keep his friends awake, required more effort than the eight episodes that came before it. Ben StillerDIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER “The idea was to try to immerse the viewer in the point of view of the Innies.
We wanted the last episode to be totally representative of their experience being in a different world than their own, so it was all shot by Steadicam, which we had only previously used in the MDR scene with Milchick’s dance.
The hope was that it would feel as different for the audience as it did for the characters…. We didn’t shoot it as a stand-alone.
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