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Ben Stiller

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

The white man overbite? Save that Billy Crystal, right? Yeah, it was, to me, the weirdness of that moment is kind of like, well, that's what's in the show. It's motivated because it's a, you know, it's a party. It's a perk. It's, you understand why they're doing it, but it's also just so weird and really fun to be able to like explore that.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

The white man overbite? Save that Billy Crystal, right? Yeah, it was, to me, the weirdness of that moment is kind of like, well, that's what's in the show. It's motivated because it's a, you know, it's a party. It's a perk. It's, you understand why they're doing it, but it's also just so weird and really fun to be able to like explore that.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

The white man overbite? Save that Billy Crystal, right? Yeah, it was, to me, the weirdness of that moment is kind of like, well, that's what's in the show. It's motivated because it's a, you know, it's a party. It's a perk. It's, you understand why they're doing it, but it's also just so weird and really fun to be able to like explore that.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Honestly, yeah, I know very little about it. It's a weird world to be in. From the beginning, it was a new, strange experience because when we started developing the show, Apple wasn't even up yet. And someone called up and said, yeah, Apple's going to do a streaming service too. And I remember like, what? Laughing, going like, okay, everybody's doing streaming services. This is crazy.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Honestly, yeah, I know very little about it. It's a weird world to be in. From the beginning, it was a new, strange experience because when we started developing the show, Apple wasn't even up yet. And someone called up and said, yeah, Apple's going to do a streaming service too. And I remember like, what? Laughing, going like, okay, everybody's doing streaming services. This is crazy.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Honestly, yeah, I know very little about it. It's a weird world to be in. From the beginning, it was a new, strange experience because when we started developing the show, Apple wasn't even up yet. And someone called up and said, yeah, Apple's going to do a streaming service too. And I remember like, what? Laughing, going like, okay, everybody's doing streaming services. This is crazy.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And we went out and pitched the show to different HBO, all these places, and Apple was the only one that bought it. And they weren't even up yet.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And we went out and pitched the show to different HBO, all these places, and Apple was the only one that bought it. And they weren't even up yet.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And we went out and pitched the show to different HBO, all these places, and Apple was the only one that bought it. And they weren't even up yet.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Well, you know, no one ever really tells you it's Hollywood.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Well, you know, no one ever really tells you it's Hollywood.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Well, you know, no one ever really tells you it's Hollywood.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

They say we loved it. It just wasn't for us. Yeah. But that's just the way it is. And that's par for the course. But they said yes to it. And then it was like, okay, we're going to develop this thing for Apple, you know, Apple TV. That's weird to think of. And then a couple of years go by and then all of a sudden they're up and running and we're a show that's in production for them.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

They say we loved it. It just wasn't for us. Yeah. But that's just the way it is. And that's par for the course. But they said yes to it. And then it was like, okay, we're going to develop this thing for Apple, you know, Apple TV. That's weird to think of. And then a couple of years go by and then all of a sudden they're up and running and we're a show that's in production for them.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

They say we loved it. It just wasn't for us. Yeah. But that's just the way it is. And that's par for the course. But they said yes to it. And then it was like, okay, we're going to develop this thing for Apple, you know, Apple TV. That's weird to think of. And then a couple of years go by and then all of a sudden they're up and running and we're a show that's in production for them.

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And so honestly, I had no sense of what success would be other than I hope people watch it. And, you know, they don't really tell you the analytics

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And so honestly, I had no sense of what success would be other than I hope people watch it. And, you know, they don't really tell you the analytics

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

And so honestly, I had no sense of what success would be other than I hope people watch it. And, you know, they don't really tell you the analytics

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

No, they show us graphs and charts, but without numbers attached to them. And it's weird. I think that's weird for any creative person, especially when you're used to... You make a movie, you know exactly how many people went to see it on opening night, how much money it made you, the show, you get Nielsen ratings. So...

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

No, they show us graphs and charts, but without numbers attached to them. And it's weird. I think that's weird for any creative person, especially when you're used to... You make a movie, you know exactly how many people went to see it on opening night, how much money it made you, the show, you get Nielsen ratings. So...