SPOILER: This publish comprises particulars in regards to the Season 2 premiere of Severance.
As Severance returns to workplace, followers would possibly acknowledge a well-recognized voice welcoming them again to the present’s surreal company life.
Collection creator Dan Erickson lately defined how Keanu Reeves got here to make a voice cameo because the constructing throughout the ‘Lumon is Listening’ video within the Apple TV+ sci-fi collection’ Season 2 premiere.
“All I can say is that we talked about a few totally different individuals for that function,” he advised Collider. “We at all times wished it to be any individual that folks have sure associations with, but in addition, it needed to be a really heat presence. The Lumon constructing could be very pleasant within the context of this video, and there’s a friendliness to that exact voice and a coronary heart to that exact voice.”
From Erickson and EP/director Ben Stiller, Severance is ready in a world during which a know-how permits company staff to surgically divide their reminiscences of their work and private lives.
Within the 10-episode second season, Mark (Adam Scott) and his mates study the dire penalties of meddling with the severance barrier, main them additional down a path of woe.
Ben Stiller, Dan Erickson, Britt Decrease and Patricia Arquette attend the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards held on Sept. 12, 2022. (Christopher Polk/NBC through Getty Photos)
Along with Scott, Britt Decrease, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Patricia Arquette and new collection common Sarah Bock additionally star.
Erickson beforehand spoke to Deadline about how adjustments within the company world have influenced the show’s plot since Season 1. “It’s humorous as a result of we launched Season 1 as individuals had been beginning to come again to the workplace. On the similar time, there have been some jobs the place individuals had been like, ‘Hey, perhaps we don’t have to return again to the workplace. Possibly that is one thing the place individuals may do business from home,’” he mentioned.
“In order that was an surprising context into which we had been releasing the primary season,” added Erickson. “However since then, we’ve had the Nice Resignation, the place lots of people, particularly youthful individuals, are saying ‘Hey, does work have to play the function that it at all times has in our lives? Or is there one other method to do that?’ However then, in fact, the query is, ‘Effectively, what’s on the opposite aspect of that?’ You possibly can divorce your self from the outdated system, however then what’s the new system? It’s an interesting time to be residing as a result of persons are attempting to determine that out.”
