Gwendoline Christie Talks ‘SEVERANCE’ EPISODE 3 Goat Reveal (exclusive)

WARNING: This article contains spoilers to Resignation Season 2, section 3, “Who is alive?”

“Careful, there’s Basy!”

Mark’s (Adam Scott) Hilariously Calm Warning to Helly (Britt Lower) in this week’s episode of Resignation was the perfect structure for the long -awaited reveal of Lumon’s mysterious goat department. And while we still have a million questions about what the goats are actually Used for “Who is alive?”, At least we know much more about who is taking care of them: Gwendoline Christie’s frightening new character, Lorne, and the rest of her mammal that is careful ward.

During their search for Mrs. Casey (Dichen Lachman) on the cut floor, Mark and Helly returned to what they thought were the goat department and crawled through a tunnel to discover the right, hidden One: A scattered, green, grassy tray that spans all over the underground space where the goats graze and roam (along with an employee carrying the skin on a black goat).

When they explored the field in shock, they were met (at the knife point) by Lorne, who revealed that they are in the mammals, which are careful department filled with just as daunting employees – all of which have a soft place for Mrs. Casey and her therapeutic Wellness sessions. Unfortunately, Lorne and her mammals’ colleagues do not have any Intel at Mrs. Casey’s residence after “retirement”; However, there is still an important exchange of information, as the mammals care for employees ask to see MDR’s stomachs to confirm that they do not have bags. At least Lumon’s Interdemental Propaganda remains disproved!

Now that this episode is out in the world, Christie is relieved that she no longer needs to keep lorns – and mammal nurturable’s – secrets. “But I still feel like I can’t say anything,” Game of Thrones Alun tells Entertainment weekly With a laugh. “When I first saw the series, I was really caught by it, and when it came to the point where the goats were introduced, I just felt to sink on my knees because it was beyond everything I could understand or predicted . ”

Ever since then the goats have been her favorite part of Resignation. “I’ve been obsessed with the goats,” she says. “It felt so right, but was so out of rich about something logical or sensible, and it was so disturbing and so adorable and completely, quite strange and completely original. And the only thing I can compare it with is that moment in Lamb’s silence When Lecter talks to Clarice Starling and he says, ‘You can still hear the lambs, you can’t, Clarice? You can still hear them call to you? ‘And that’s the moment there is so completely cooling, but intimate. ”

When she was thrown to Season 2, she did not know that she would play such a big role that involved the goat mystery. “When (instructor) Ben (Stiller) told me that I was responsible for the goats, I can’t really convey how excited I was and is,” Christie reveals. “I was actually in the highlands in Scotland when we had zoom when we talked about this and we moved through endless maurp with mountains, and it was dotted with sheep. And in my mind I just transferred them to goats and i ‘d kind of exceeded to a goat Resignation Abstract sky with the news that I would be responsible for the goats. ”

Christie worked closely with Stiller and the creative team to build lorns from scratch. “Several things talked to me and I put my ideas together and we discussed them, and that was such a brilliant collaboration process,” she says. “Even though we only just start to see Lorne – I haven’t even said the name of the character out loud, really at all – I felt a strong sense of who that person was.”

Getting to movies on the beautiful mammals that were careful set also helped Christie get into character. “The environment for when we shot paragraph 3 was heaven! I mean you’ve seen it,” she says. “Seeing these sheep spread out over the rolling hills of Scotland was something similar to the set I was in. They built this incredible set and I think it was actually on a golf course and it was a huge thing With the goats just roaming around.

But Christie had worked with the character long before she came on a set. Although she couldn’t tell anyone she had to work closely with goats on ResignationShe still found ways to immerse herself in the lifestyle of a goat farmer.

“I have a couple of friends who are sheep farmers, so I had a very hidden way of asking them a lot of questions about goats and they knew about goats,” she says. “And I read books about goats and I would spend a lot of time in the country with goats I was located. I would spend as much time as I could with them in fields because it was as close as I could come.”

She wouldn’t be “in odds” with the goats as it was time to film her scenes and all her research and preparation paid off. “I was in ecstasy to be around the goats and be transplanted to my favorite show on TV and with Mark S. and with Helly,” says Christie. “I was surrounded by goats and surrounded by my people that I take care of, and it was a kind of total happiness for me. And then bizarre and weird, and it felt quite right.”

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At the end of the episode, Mark and Helly formed a tentative friendship with the mammals Nurturable Department (or at least removed the rumors that MDR workers are monsters with bags). And Christie loved to make Lorn’s fragile new relationships with them.

“When we were in the stage together, it was absolutely gratifying to work with both of them and try different things,” she says. “And the strange magnetism that Helly has, and the childish walking who is Mark S, I can’t really convey what a joy this was. I enjoyed my surrealistic – I don’t know as if Fellini had a David Cronenberg dream , I don’t know, or if David Cronenberg had a Fellini dream, I’m not sure.

Resignation Season 2 debuts new episodes Fridays on Apple TV+. Check out more of EW’s exclusive photos, including some behind the scenes shots, from the episode below: