‘Severance’ Creator, Director-EP Ben Stiller & Stars Break Down Challenges Of Work On Apple Series – Comic-Con
deadline.comWhen the creatives behind Apple TV+’s singular sci-fi drama Severance stopped by Comic-Con on Thursday, they offered little in the way of hints as to Season 2 story.
Instead, they honed in on the assorted challenges of bringing the breakout series to life.The first challenge to grapple with—both on the page and on set—was one of tone.
During the conversation, moderated by actor Patton Oswalt, creator-writer Dan Erickson noted that as singularly strange as Severance did wind up being, the original pilot script was even “more acid trip-y”—featuring, for example, a pair of disembodied legs running down one of the show’s long white hallways.
And it was elements like this that would eventually need to be pared back.Comic-Con 2022: Deadline’s Full CoverageOne major challenge for Severance‘s actors was to carefully calibrate their performances with tone in mind—grappling correctly, to start, with the world-building show’s strange dialogue. “Dan’s writing is so specific,” director-EP Ben Stiller admitted, “that sometimes it was hard to get it just right.” But of course, the principal performance challenge stemmed from the show’s premise, which called for most cast members to find a way to play two subtly distinct versions of the same character.Severance is a workplace thriller that takes place at an enigmatic, though clearly sinister, tech corporation known as Lumon Industries.
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