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Ben Stiller

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And when you see something like that where you haven't seen it before, but in some way it triggers, you know, these ideas for you, it makes you want to lean into it. Dan had never had anything produced before, ever before. And so I had obviously worked for a long time. So I, you know, he and I sort of partnered up and it's always been his vision.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And when you see something like that where you haven't seen it before, but in some way it triggers, you know, these ideas for you, it makes you want to lean into it. Dan had never had anything produced before, ever before. And so I had obviously worked for a long time. So I, you know, he and I sort of partnered up and it's always been his vision.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And when you see something like that where you haven't seen it before, but in some way it triggers, you know, these ideas for you, it makes you want to lean into it. Dan had never had anything produced before, ever before. And so I had obviously worked for a long time. So I, you know, he and I sort of partnered up and it's always been his vision.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

But I think we really collaborated a lot in terms of the, you know, just the feeling and the vibe of it and the direction of the story as we looked at, you know, building it out from this pilot that he'd written.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

But I think we really collaborated a lot in terms of the, you know, just the feeling and the vibe of it and the direction of the story as we looked at, you know, building it out from this pilot that he'd written.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

But I think we really collaborated a lot in terms of the, you know, just the feeling and the vibe of it and the direction of the story as we looked at, you know, building it out from this pilot that he'd written.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, that might be Battle or Conquest.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, that might be Battle or Conquest.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, that might be Battle or Conquest.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Well, these are formative movies for me, the Planet of the Apes movies. I went to the Lowe's 84th Street Cinema and watched the Battle, the Planet of the Apes, you know, marathon where they go from Planet of the Apes all the way through Conquest or whatever. So yeah, that's deeply rooted in my, you know, my DNA of like just things that I love to watch.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Well, these are formative movies for me, the Planet of the Apes movies. I went to the Lowe's 84th Street Cinema and watched the Battle, the Planet of the Apes, you know, marathon where they go from Planet of the Apes all the way through Conquest or whatever. So yeah, that's deeply rooted in my, you know, my DNA of like just things that I love to watch.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Well, these are formative movies for me, the Planet of the Apes movies. I went to the Lowe's 84th Street Cinema and watched the Battle, the Planet of the Apes, you know, marathon where they go from Planet of the Apes all the way through Conquest or whatever. So yeah, that's deeply rooted in my, you know, my DNA of like just things that I love to watch.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, a little bit of Logan's Run-ish.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, a little bit of Logan's Run-ish.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, a little bit of Logan's Run-ish.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, technically Lumen is sort of a med tech company, you know, and they go back to the 1860s and 70s when Kerrigan founded it. And, you know, it kind of is really...

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, technically Lumen is sort of a med tech company, you know, and they go back to the 1860s and 70s when Kerrigan founded it. And, you know, it kind of is really...

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, technically Lumen is sort of a med tech company, you know, and they go back to the 1860s and 70s when Kerrigan founded it. And, you know, it kind of is really...

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

know a one of those companies that does a lot of things and you shouldn't quite know everything that they do and obviously the severed workers have no idea what they do there and i i always think that's interesting when you see the characters having to talk especially uh for mark in the first season when he just talks about you know supposedly i'm a corporate archivist or something like he doesn't have any idea what he's up to and i think that idea

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

know a one of those companies that does a lot of things and you shouldn't quite know everything that they do and obviously the severed workers have no idea what they do there and i i always think that's interesting when you see the characters having to talk especially uh for mark in the first season when he just talks about you know supposedly i'm a corporate archivist or something like he doesn't have any idea what he's up to and i think that idea