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Ben Stiller

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, I mean, we looked at it sort of like the first season was these outies were sort of kids. They're pretty young. Mark's only probably like two years old, and Irving's maybe was there a few more years. They're kind of innocent and childlike to a certain extent, but also have developed personalities.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And then as the season evolved and as the second season is starting to evolve, I think they're kind of becoming more adolescence and more, you know, kind of, yeah, self-empowered and questioning authority. And so I think there's like a maturation that's happening with them slowly.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And then as the season evolved and as the second season is starting to evolve, I think they're kind of becoming more adolescence and more, you know, kind of, yeah, self-empowered and questioning authority. And so I think there's like a maturation that's happening with them slowly.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And then as the season evolved and as the second season is starting to evolve, I think they're kind of becoming more adolescence and more, you know, kind of, yeah, self-empowered and questioning authority. And so I think there's like a maturation that's happening with them slowly.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I mean, I don't know if I'd want to be totally cut off from part of my life experience. I think in retrospect, when I look back at painful situations I've been in or things that have happened in life that didn't feel good, I could imagine not wanting to go through that pain. But I also think that one of the ideas of the show is this questioning of...

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I mean, I don't know if I'd want to be totally cut off from part of my life experience. I think in retrospect, when I look back at painful situations I've been in or things that have happened in life that didn't feel good, I could imagine not wanting to go through that pain. But I also think that one of the ideas of the show is this questioning of...

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I mean, I don't know if I'd want to be totally cut off from part of my life experience. I think in retrospect, when I look back at painful situations I've been in or things that have happened in life that didn't feel good, I could imagine not wanting to go through that pain. But I also think that one of the ideas of the show is this questioning of...

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

You know, what can you actually cut off, right? Because we all have to deal with everything on some level. And I think it's also what I was really attracted to when I first read the script, too, was there's so many different ideas of what, you know, severance could be a metaphor for. And I think we all do sever to a certain extent when we...

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

You know, what can you actually cut off, right? Because we all have to deal with everything on some level. And I think it's also what I was really attracted to when I first read the script, too, was there's so many different ideas of what, you know, severance could be a metaphor for. And I think we all do sever to a certain extent when we...

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

You know, what can you actually cut off, right? Because we all have to deal with everything on some level. And I think it's also what I was really attracted to when I first read the script, too, was there's so many different ideas of what, you know, severance could be a metaphor for. And I think we all do sever to a certain extent when we...

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

you know check out if you have a drink or you know you take a gummy or you you know watch a tv show or if you go on your phone i mean we all find ways to cope with the everyday sort of you know torrent of stuff that's coming at us in life

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

you know check out if you have a drink or you know you take a gummy or you you know watch a tv show or if you go on your phone i mean we all find ways to cope with the everyday sort of you know torrent of stuff that's coming at us in life

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

you know check out if you have a drink or you know you take a gummy or you you know watch a tv show or if you go on your phone i mean we all find ways to cope with the everyday sort of you know torrent of stuff that's coming at us in life

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Well, honestly, you know, the script came into our production company and it was a spec script, a script sent to see a writing sample. And Jackie Cohn, who worked at our company at the time, read it and she gave it to me and I read it. And I was like, this is great. It's a great writing sample. And also, is anybody doing this show? It was so unique.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Well, honestly, you know, the script came into our production company and it was a spec script, a script sent to see a writing sample. And Jackie Cohn, who worked at our company at the time, read it and she gave it to me and I read it. And I was like, this is great. It's a great writing sample. And also, is anybody doing this show? It was so unique.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Well, honestly, you know, the script came into our production company and it was a spec script, a script sent to see a writing sample. And Jackie Cohn, who worked at our company at the time, read it and she gave it to me and I read it. And I was like, this is great. It's a great writing sample. And also, is anybody doing this show? It was so unique.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

The tone, the dialogue, it reminded me of shows that I'd seen before, but it felt like its own thing. I was one of the you know, ideas bandied about to be in it, but really the second I read it, I was like, this is Adam Scott. And I felt just a desire to make it.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

The tone, the dialogue, it reminded me of shows that I'd seen before, but it felt like its own thing. I was one of the you know, ideas bandied about to be in it, but really the second I read it, I was like, this is Adam Scott. And I felt just a desire to make it.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

The tone, the dialogue, it reminded me of shows that I'd seen before, but it felt like its own thing. I was one of the you know, ideas bandied about to be in it, but really the second I read it, I was like, this is Adam Scott. And I felt just a desire to make it.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And sometimes it's hard to actually analyze what it is that draws you to something, because sometimes I think it's something subconscious you don't necessarily know, but you have a feeling for it. And I've tried to listen to that. over the years in terms of just kind of going with my gut feeling about something and not even knowing what it is. I just thought it was good.