Tramell Tillman isn’t shying away from giving his all to enjoying Mr. Milchick in “Severance.” The scene-stealer (who additionally appeared within the now-viral submarine sequence of “Mission: Unimaginable — The Closing Reckoning”) informed Backstage that his fellow “Severance” co-stars discover his character Milchick “very scary.” At instances, Tillman doesn’t even acknowledge himself onscreen.
“Based mostly on accounts from Ben [Stiller], Dan [Erickson], and my fellow solid members, they don’t actually mess with me. I’ve been informed I’m very scary after I’m in Milchick mode,” Tillman mentioned. “After they yell, ‘Minimize!’ and there’s an area for air, I’m in a position to pause and have a look at the playback, as a result of I study by watching. There are occasions after I do shock myself. I scare myself after I watch scenes from the primary two seasons and suppose, Who the hell is that man who has my face?”
To arrange to play the Lumon government, Tillman dove into each nature documentaries and cult docuseries to steadiness the “animalistic” actions with Milchick’s devotion to the corporate.
“I’d watch nature documentaries like ‘Planet Earth’ and actually examine the birds and mammals and reptiles, and simply begin permitting my creativeness to essentially explode,” he mentioned. “I used to be like, Is Milchick a snake? Is he extra of a raccoon? Is he an eagle? I simply actually had enjoyable discovering methods to include that animalistic habits and fusing it with the intentions and motivations of the character.”
Tillman continued of the cult docs too, “There was a habits I observed: a conviction, a devotion, nearly a selflessness. It’s not solely a dedication to the cult’s beliefs, however a dedication to its management. There isn’t an entire lot of house for these followers to query the management. That was a extremely highly effective trait I might carry forth with Milchick; and it’s so totally different from myself, as a result of I ask questions typically.”
And Tillman continues to be determining what Milchick stands for at Lumon: “I nonetheless have so many questions on Milchick,” he mentioned. “I don’t suppose he ever leaves me. This man lives with me. I gained’t be capable to put him down till I determine him out.”