After a three-year hiatus, Severance is back with Season 2. The new season picks up where the previous season left off, into the intense and mysterious world of Lumon’s Seward Floor. According to Adam Scott, the opening scene of the premiere is particularly thrilling, with Adam revealing that he took inspiration from Tom Cruise’s iconic action sequences to bring the intense sequence to life. Read alsoWhat to stream: ‘Severance’ returns, a Mac Miller album and Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx pair up
Adam Scott gets candid
Adam recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he previewed the opening shot of Season 2, which shows his character running down the eerie white hallways of Lumon. He said he channeled Tom Cruise’s iconic run.
“He’s the best runner in the world,” Adam shared. You have to have bladed hands, you have to have raised knees, and he always runs in uncomfortable clothes, so I had a suit and dress shoes and I had to run a huge amount. It took about five months to shoot that sequence – intermittently, for five months. That was just Ben Stiller and our own little wrap party when we finally completed the running sequence.
In a recent interview with Rotten Tomatoes posted on Threads, Adam shared, “I trained by watching Tom Cruise and seeing what he does. While shooting that thing, Ben (Stiller) and I talked a lot about Tom Cruise because he’s the best at running in clothes you shouldn’t be running in, and I was in the suit the whole time.
It was also revealed that Adam had developed a keen sense of observation on set, especially when it came to anticipating intense scenes. According to Ben, Adam had also picked up on a subtle cue, a “tell” that indicated when he should be ready for more high-energy hallway running scenes.
The opening scene of Season 2’s ‘Hello, Miss Cobell’ took four to five months to film alone, Ben said, mostly due to scheduling headaches.
“I think there’s about 10 different pieces to it. … Each (piece) had different needs for what to do with the set. There was one where we had to do it entirely with green screen. “And you had to put together a treadmill and a motion control camera comes in front of you and it all works,” Ben said on the podcast.
about the show
Nearly three years after its cliffhanger season ended, Severance is back with a second season. It streams on Apple TV+. The dystopian series stars Adam Scott as Mark Scout, a widower who undergoes a “dissociation” process that leaves him unable to access his memories at work, and vice versa. He works at the mysterious Lumon Industries with Irving (John Turturro), Dylan (Jack Cherry) and Haley (Britt Lower). The second season begins after the team leads what is called the “Microdata Rebellion”.
Severance also stars Trammell Tillman, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken and Dechan Lachman. The Apple original series was created by Dan Erickson and produced by Ben Stiller. Spanning 10 episodes, season two of Severance premiered on January 17. Each installment will release weekly with the finale releasing on March 21.
