Slight spoilers for Severance Season 2 are forward! When you haven’t made your means again to the severed ground, you may stream the collection with an Apple TV+ subscription.
When Season 2 of Severance begins, you’re instantly thrown again into Lumon with Mark S. as he sprints by the hallways. This sequence is sort of two minutes lengthy, and it mainly appears to be like like a one-take as Adam Scott rushes by the halls of his office. Nonetheless, in actuality, this second that opens the present’s run on the 2025 TV schedule took months to movie, and Adam Scott and Ben Stiller advised me the story behind why.
Ben Stiller Breaks Down How They Filmed The Opening Sequence
After watching Season 2’s premiere, I knew that after I sat down with the Severance forged, and particularly the present’s director and EP Ben Stiller and star Adam Scott, I needed to convey up this jaw-dropping sequence. Within the interview, I requested the Evening on the Museum star how they filmed what regarded like a one-take, and he shortly corrected me, noting how lengthy it took to create this scene and what number of components it was cut up into:
It was really filmed in a bunch of various components. I believe it was about 10 completely different components to it, and every half normally had a unique piece of apparatus to get it performed for no matter piece we wanted. However it was really shot additionally over the course of in all probability, like, 5 or 6 months, after we would have completely different sections of the set that have been prepared.
For a scene that appears so seamless, it’s wild to listen to that it took 5 or 6 months to shoot. Nonetheless, it additionally is smart. Mark runs by a lot of the ground, and every of these units is used for various scenes all through Season 2. With that in thoughts, it tracks that they’d movie every a part of this opening sequence as the varied elements of the workplace have been constructed.
Stiller went on to inform me why they opted for this grandiose operating sequence to kick off the season. Eager about what Mark realized on the finish of Severance Season 1 and the truth that he was returning after that, it made sense that he was frantic and energetic as he tried to determine what was happening:
And all of it got here out of this concept, actually, that when Adam and I talked concerning the opening of the season, that, , this impetus that Mark must run and work out what was happening primarily based on this information he simply heard.
Entering into the technicalities of pulling this off, the Meet the Mother and father actor defined that they used a “bolt arm,” which is a robotic digital camera that’s programmed to swing round and movie Scott as he ran. Stiller stated that was really “very harmful” to do, and together with this taking eternally to movie, it was additionally “a bit bit scary.”
Nonetheless, all of it paid off in the long run, because the director defined:
However making it was a extremely enjoyable puzzle that each one of our division heads collaborated on. And, , it was a kind of issues that took a really very long time to really end, and after we received to the top of it, we have been like, ‘We accomplished this shot.’ I believe we even had a wrap get together for the shot.
That shot deserved a wrap get together! Between how lengthy it took, the technical elements and Scott’s efficiency, it’s an unforgettable and marvelous second to start out Season 2.
Oh, and talking of the star of Severance, he additionally advised me what it was wish to be in entrance of the digital camera for this epic dash.
Adam Scott Informed Me What It Was Like Starring In Severance’s Opening Scene
Whereas Ben Stiller was eager about the technical elements of this scene, Adam Scott was eager about operating, and operating, and operating, and operating some extra. Because the director stated, it took months to shoot this, and so they picked it up right here and there as they filmed the remainder of Season 2.
When the Mark actor spoke about what it was wish to carry out this scene, he joked about how a lot Gatorade he needed to drink and the way he actually needed to brace himself for the operating days:
Like Ben stated it took 5 or 6 months to get by it. And each time I assumed we have been performed with the opening operating sequence, somebody could be like, ‘Okay, so for subsequent week, which colour Gatorade is your favourite?’ [I’d] be like, ‘Oh, my God, is there extra operating?’ It is like, ‘Yeah, there’s one other half.’
The Social gathering Down actor continued to inform me that he was “exhausted” once they completed filming it, however he thought it was “tremendous enjoyable.” It paid off large time too. Understanding how a lot time, effort, “Gatorade and bananas,” as Scott stated, went into making this scene proves why the anticipate Severance Season 2 was price it and it units the bar exceptionally excessive for the remainder of the season.
To see this epic scene, you may stream Severance on Apple TV+, then be certain to examine again in each Friday on the streamer to see what Mark is as much as and the way the present continues to blow our minds as Season 2 continues.