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Ben Stiller

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On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I thought I wanted to see it. I thought I could see it in my head and wanted to make it happen. So that was it.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I thought I wanted to see it. I thought I could see it in my head and wanted to make it happen. So that was it.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I thought I wanted to see it. I thought I could see it in my head and wanted to make it happen. So that was it.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I am the voice of Keir Egan in the, I guess it's episode eight.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I am the voice of Keir Egan in the, I guess it's episode eight.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I am the voice of Keir Egan in the, I guess it's episode eight.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, when you hit 100% and you got like the little video of Keir on the mountaintop. So it's not actually, it's an actor playing Keir because we actually have the voice of the real Keir Egan that Mark Geller portrays when you see, and he's who Keir Egan is when you see him.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, when you hit 100% and you got like the little video of Keir on the mountaintop. So it's not actually, it's an actor playing Keir because we actually have the voice of the real Keir Egan that Mark Geller portrays when you see, and he's who Keir Egan is when you see him.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, when you hit 100% and you got like the little video of Keir on the mountaintop. So it's not actually, it's an actor playing Keir because we actually have the voice of the real Keir Egan that Mark Geller portrays when you see, and he's who Keir Egan is when you see him.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I mean, I think it was the mix of humor and weirdness and the basic and the tone of the humor, which related to me to a lot of comedies that I loved. The office banter, this feeling of sort of like this weird sort of like the movie Office Space or Parks and Rec or The Office, you know, that sort of genre of office workplace comedy.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I mean, I think it was the mix of humor and weirdness and the basic and the tone of the humor, which related to me to a lot of comedies that I loved. The office banter, this feeling of sort of like this weird sort of like the movie Office Space or Parks and Rec or The Office, you know, that sort of genre of office workplace comedy.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

I mean, I think it was the mix of humor and weirdness and the basic and the tone of the humor, which related to me to a lot of comedies that I loved. The office banter, this feeling of sort of like this weird sort of like the movie Office Space or Parks and Rec or The Office, you know, that sort of genre of office workplace comedy.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, where it's like a lot of the humor is based in sort of everyday stuff, but then there was this other layer to it, which is these people don't know who they are, where they are, what they're doing, why they're doing it.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, where it's like a lot of the humor is based in sort of everyday stuff, but then there was this other layer to it, which is these people don't know who they are, where they are, what they're doing, why they're doing it.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, where it's like a lot of the humor is based in sort of everyday stuff, but then there was this other layer to it, which is these people don't know who they are, where they are, what they're doing, why they're doing it.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, I feel like it's rooted in the workplace comedy genre. And then it also has these aspects of, you know, thriller, but also like 70s sort of, you know, style thrillers. And then also the weird kind of Twilight Zone vibe to it also. And I mean, to me, that was what was exciting was it's a combination of all these different things.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, I feel like it's rooted in the workplace comedy genre. And then it also has these aspects of, you know, thriller, but also like 70s sort of, you know, style thrillers. And then also the weird kind of Twilight Zone vibe to it also. And I mean, to me, that was what was exciting was it's a combination of all these different things.

Pivot
On with Kara Swisher: Why Ben Stiller Made Severance

Yeah, I feel like it's rooted in the workplace comedy genre. And then it also has these aspects of, you know, thriller, but also like 70s sort of, you know, style thrillers. And then also the weird kind of Twilight Zone vibe to it also. And I mean, to me, that was what was exciting was it's a combination of all these different things.

Pivot
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.

Pivot
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.