‘Severance’ star on that dramatic death — and fighting Gwendoline Christie and Adam Scott: I wanted to cry

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the show’s first bloody death in the Season 2 finale. “I was kind of excited,” Ólafsson exclusively told The Post. “I spoke to [director Ben Stiller] about it, and it’s the first time that you see real graphic violence and blood…..if you’re going to go out in any kind of show, this is the way to go out.” “Severance” is a sci-fi drama following employees at the sinister biotech company, Lumon, including Mark (Adam Scott) and Helly (Britt Lower).

During the Season 2 finale, which came out on Friday, Mark rescues his wife, Gemma (Dichen Lachman), who has been trapped at Lumon getting experimented on.

Mr. Drummond tries to stop Mark, and the two men get into a violent scuffle. As Adam Scott revealed on the official “Severance” podcast, when Drummond throws Mark into a wall, Scott was supposed to block his head with his hand, but he missed, and his head ended up really slamming into the wall.

When that happened, “I just kind of wanted to go back to my chair and cry,” Ólafsson said. He continued, “I remember I brought in an Icelandic chocolate bar and gave it to him as a sort of ‘I’m sorry.’ Also because Adam worked so hard in the show, like he is there all the time — and you don’t want to knock the lead actor out!” Drummond nearly gets the best of Mark, but soon, fellow Lumon employee Lorne (Gwendoline Christie) rescues Mark and fights Drummond herself.