Tom Cruise actually is in every single place: Climbing the facet of constructing, hanging off a aircraft, and apparently residing rent-free within the minds of the “Severance” staff.
“Severance” lead star Adam Scott confirmed that “the king” Cruise was a direct inspiration for the opening sequence of Season 2. Scott’s character Mark sprints down the Lumon hallway for the scene, and Scott tried to emulate Cruise’s famed run in numerous motion movies. Scott in flip additionally realized simply how a lot work it takes Cruise to make the run look easy.
“There’s no method, in case you’re working that a lot in a go well with, there’s no method you possibly can keep away from any type of comparability to Tom Cruise as a result of he’s the king,” Scott stated throughout SiriusXM’s “Actually! With Rob Lowe” podcast. “What I discover is one thing that he does that’s extremely spectacular is, at one level after we had been capturing the opening sequence for the primary episode of Season 2, we did a bunch of various stuff. And at one level I used to be on a treadmill with a harness related to me, and what we discovered was there was some uncanny valley factor that might begin taking place as a result of in case you’re on a treadmill, you’re working at a constant pace. There’s no variation in your pace, whereas if somebody is definitely working, there’s fixed variation in pace that isn’t even perceptible to the human eye.”
He continued, “However you clock it once you’re watching Tom Cruise run. There’s one thing very human about it as a result of he’s really doing it. So we discovered that to ensure that it to be real looking, I needed to run round on the treadmill simply to make it inconsistent. It was tremendous attention-grabbing. You’re welcome.”
Scott added that “Severance” director and government producer Ben Stiller “additionally has an affinity for Tom Cruise.”
Scott’s “Parks and Recreation” co-star and podcast host Rob Lowe cited their “mutual appreciation” for Cruise, saying that Scott “lastly obtained [his] second to pay homage to the Grasp.”
Might Cruise make a “Severance” cameo for Season 3? We already know that Barack Obama was too busy to lend his voice to Season 2 (Keanu Reeves as an alternative took the position), however maybe Cruise post-“Mission Unimaginable” may make his option to Lumon….