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Ben Stiller

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

But I think there's something to the sort of clunky nature of this corporation too. that that is kind of fun and and uh you know we at we don't have any there's one security person in the first season grainer um but early on we had experimented and thought about having security guards on the floor and any time we ever brought security guards in

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

It always felt to me like it turned into like a Star Trek episode or something. There was something about it. And we realized, oh, well, like the more we don't tell, the more we don't show, the more the audience has a chance to fill it in themselves. And that's always been for me a little bit of the question as I put the show out into the world.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

It always felt to me like it turned into like a Star Trek episode or something. There was something about it. And we realized, oh, well, like the more we don't tell, the more we don't show, the more the audience has a chance to fill it in themselves. And that's always been for me a little bit of the question as I put the show out into the world.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

It always felt to me like it turned into like a Star Trek episode or something. There was something about it. And we realized, oh, well, like the more we don't tell, the more we don't show, the more the audience has a chance to fill it in themselves. And that's always been for me a little bit of the question as I put the show out into the world.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

When we were making it in the first season, we made all nine episodes and nobody had seen it. It's like, oh, I hope people will buy this conceit because, you know, you have to buy into it. But it's there because I feel like those aren't the questions as much that I'm as interested in as opposed to the sort of greater themes of the show.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

When we were making it in the first season, we made all nine episodes and nobody had seen it. It's like, oh, I hope people will buy this conceit because, you know, you have to buy into it. But it's there because I feel like those aren't the questions as much that I'm as interested in as opposed to the sort of greater themes of the show.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

When we were making it in the first season, we made all nine episodes and nobody had seen it. It's like, oh, I hope people will buy this conceit because, you know, you have to buy into it. But it's there because I feel like those aren't the questions as much that I'm as interested in as opposed to the sort of greater themes of the show.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, not at all. I mean, yeah, the first season we made starting right when COVID started. And we were delayed actually six months in production because of it. And so when the show was finished and people were starting to go back to work, and a writer wrote about it as like, oh, this is like one of the first return to work shows. It was purely, you know, that's just happenstance.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, not at all. I mean, yeah, the first season we made starting right when COVID started. And we were delayed actually six months in production because of it. And so when the show was finished and people were starting to go back to work, and a writer wrote about it as like, oh, this is like one of the first return to work shows. It was purely, you know, that's just happenstance.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, not at all. I mean, yeah, the first season we made starting right when COVID started. And we were delayed actually six months in production because of it. And so when the show was finished and people were starting to go back to work, and a writer wrote about it as like, oh, this is like one of the first return to work shows. It was purely, you know, that's just happenstance.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

So it was just, I think, the timing of how the show came out. And it seemed like both the aspect of being sort of severed from everybody else in the world, you know, as we were, And that weirdness, even making the show where the actors were, you know, we were first season, everybody was in full PPE and, you know, face masks.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

So it was just, I think, the timing of how the show came out. And it seemed like both the aspect of being sort of severed from everybody else in the world, you know, as we were, And that weirdness, even making the show where the actors were, you know, we were first season, everybody was in full PPE and, you know, face masks.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

So it was just, I think, the timing of how the show came out. And it seemed like both the aspect of being sort of severed from everybody else in the world, you know, as we were, And that weirdness, even making the show where the actors were, you know, we were first season, everybody was in full PPE and, you know, face masks.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

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Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Do you know that Trump was president before?

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Do you know that Trump was president before?

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I mean, I really enjoy all the characters equally. I like them. Adam is the key, I think, because, you know, he's the protagonist, but...

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I mean, I really enjoy all the characters equally. I like them. Adam is the key, I think, because, you know, he's the protagonist, but...

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I mean, I really enjoy all the characters equally. I like them. Adam is the key, I think, because, you know, he's the protagonist, but...

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Milchick, yeah.