It has been three months because the Severance Season 2 finale was a part of the 2025 TV schedule, however I do know I’m nonetheless emotionally recovering from every part that occurred throughout it. Whereas I’m not shocked it took a toll on the sequence’ star Adam Scott, it’s fascinating to listen to him speak about one scene he was nervous about, as a result of he clearly crushed it. SPOILERS are forward!
There are numerous standout scenes from the finale, significantly how the season ends with Mark and Helly working away from Gemma in any case that point when his outie thought his spouse was lifeless and wished to reunite together with her. One second from the episode that Scott’s pal and fellow actor Kristen Bell requested him about throughout an interview with Selection was when Innie and Outie Mark speak to one another over a camcorder. Right here’s how he mentioned he reacted to seeing that scene on paper:
In the event you learn one thing like that, you simply instantly begin dreading [it].
It’s one of many many genius scenes of Severance, however Adam Scott was not right here for it when it got here to being the person who needed to pull it off. He mentioned it was a kind of shoot days that at all times felt prefer it was “on the horizon,” persevering with with these phrases:
I used to be similar to ‘Oh my god, there’s nothing I can do, that day [coming] we’ll need to shoot that.’
Hey, it’s comprehensible. The actor needed to play each variations of Mark as they’d a dialog with one another with a camcorder. It can’t be simple to maintain each Marks straight, and it’s an actual key scene to the viewers’s understanding that Innie Mark has grow to be his personal individual and is rejecting Outie Mark’s needs. As he defined additional:
I used to be terrified to do this…as a result of for me I simply see it as a sequence of alternatives to screw it up, and lean in too far.
The actor after all didn’t screw up, he killed it in all of the methods doable for that scene, and it actually helps body the ending of the season.
Scott spoke additional about what went into that scene with these phrases:
And in addition, that scene was actually a troublesome nut to crack writing-wise. And Dan [Erickson] and Beau [Willimon] and Mark [Friedman] actually had been nice and had been engaged on it proper up till the final second, as a result of there’s 1,000,000 methods you would go the place that will not really feel proper or go too far in a single course or the opposite. I really feel like they did a terrific job with that. After which additionally Ben [Stiller] directing it — I used to be so fortunate he was directing and he and Jeff enhancing it did an unbelievable job too.
Adam Scott feels like a man who doesn’t fairly notice his skills as he handed off the entire credit score for a scene that he needed to play each components in to everybody else concerned, however after all, each scene of Severance is a collaborative effort. Contemplating the actor is presently in competition to earn one other Emmy nomination for his function, he’s undoubtedly being humble.
As we look ahead to the Emmy nominations to be introduced, previous to it being one of many upcoming award reveals for later this yr, I’ll nonetheless be excited about the Severance finale and what it means for Season 3 and potential Severance spinoffs.