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Ben Stiller

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

They can, you know, wonder about, well, how much of this is coming through, you know, my feeling for, you know, Dylan and Irving, if they're having a conversation, how much of Dylan's outie life is coming through for Dylan, even if it's not what the scene is about. Or, you know, for Adam Scott playing Mark, he's constantly going back and forth between that.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

They can, you know, wonder about, well, how much of this is coming through, you know, my feeling for, you know, Dylan and Irving, if they're having a conversation, how much of Dylan's outie life is coming through for Dylan, even if it's not what the scene is about. Or, you know, for Adam Scott playing Mark, he's constantly going back and forth between that.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And I think, you know, that's, to me, what's really interesting about the show, too, is finding... those places where something transcends the severance barrier an emotion or a feeling there's a time in an episode i think it's like i forget which episode so season one where dylan says basically you know do you think does love transcend the severance barrier

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And I think, you know, that's, to me, what's really interesting about the show, too, is finding... those places where something transcends the severance barrier an emotion or a feeling there's a time in an episode i think it's like i forget which episode so season one where dylan says basically you know do you think does love transcend the severance barrier

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And I think, you know, that's, to me, what's really interesting about the show, too, is finding... those places where something transcends the severance barrier an emotion or a feeling there's a time in an episode i think it's like i forget which episode so season one where dylan says basically you know do you think does love transcend the severance barrier

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And that's the question, what transcends? And when we suppress feelings, how much can you really keep out of what you're experiencing? I mean, it goes to the questions of post-traumatic stress disorder, suppressed memories, repressed memories, all those things.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And that's the question, what transcends? And when we suppress feelings, how much can you really keep out of what you're experiencing? I mean, it goes to the questions of post-traumatic stress disorder, suppressed memories, repressed memories, all those things.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And that's the question, what transcends? And when we suppress feelings, how much can you really keep out of what you're experiencing? I mean, it goes to the questions of post-traumatic stress disorder, suppressed memories, repressed memories, all those things.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I mean, as a person, I've been in therapy in my life, and I've talked a lot. And, you know, that question of how much talking about your past or talking about memories and issues, you know, there's questions about that, how much that really can help, right? And alternate therapies that are much more, you know... in the body and actually, you know, not really just about analyzing.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I mean, as a person, I've been in therapy in my life, and I've talked a lot. And, you know, that question of how much talking about your past or talking about memories and issues, you know, there's questions about that, how much that really can help, right? And alternate therapies that are much more, you know... in the body and actually, you know, not really just about analyzing.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I mean, as a person, I've been in therapy in my life, and I've talked a lot. And, you know, that question of how much talking about your past or talking about memories and issues, you know, there's questions about that, how much that really can help, right? And alternate therapies that are much more, you know... in the body and actually, you know, not really just about analyzing.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And I think that to me resonates because I feel like a lot of this stuff is internal and there's even, you know, questions about generational trauma, you know, that people talk about now. And really, it's really interesting because, you know, you think about like what is cellularly in our bodies that we carry with us.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And I think that to me resonates because I feel like a lot of this stuff is internal and there's even, you know, questions about generational trauma, you know, that people talk about now. And really, it's really interesting because, you know, you think about like what is cellularly in our bodies that we carry with us.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And I think that to me resonates because I feel like a lot of this stuff is internal and there's even, you know, questions about generational trauma, you know, that people talk about now. And really, it's really interesting because, you know, you think about like what is cellularly in our bodies that we carry with us.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, well, in terms of the Audi world and the Indie world too, what I thought that Dan had written in the pilot was a very sort of generic kind of world. And I think he was commenting on that, I think, in a way in terms of like what working for a big corporation can kind of turn you into. And that sort of blandness, that corporate blandness, I felt... we should mirror in the outside world.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, well, in terms of the Audi world and the Indie world too, what I thought that Dan had written in the pilot was a very sort of generic kind of world. And I think he was commenting on that, I think, in a way in terms of like what working for a big corporation can kind of turn you into. And that sort of blandness, that corporate blandness, I felt... we should mirror in the outside world.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, well, in terms of the Audi world and the Indie world too, what I thought that Dan had written in the pilot was a very sort of generic kind of world. And I think he was commenting on that, I think, in a way in terms of like what working for a big corporation can kind of turn you into. And that sort of blandness, that corporate blandness, I felt... we should mirror in the outside world.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And I didn't want to have any actual reference points like, you know, like CNN or, you know, brand names or things, you know, when you saw the news. Just, you know, and that was sort of the idea was like, we don't quite know where or when this is. It's kind of now, but we don't want to have...

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And I didn't want to have any actual reference points like, you know, like CNN or, you know, brand names or things, you know, when you saw the news. Just, you know, and that was sort of the idea was like, we don't quite know where or when this is. It's kind of now, but we don't want to have...

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And I didn't want to have any actual reference points like, you know, like CNN or, you know, brand names or things, you know, when you saw the news. Just, you know, and that was sort of the idea was like, we don't quite know where or when this is. It's kind of now, but we don't want to have...