Seizing offense in Season 2, EP. 4’s enormous VRI – and a controversial fantae theory

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Full spoilers follow for SEVERANCE Season 2, Section 4.

Apple TV+ HIT series Resignation is focused on such a high concept – office workers’ personalities that are “cut off” to “Innies” and “Outies” – that the viewer will be apologized for sometimes forgetting some of the nuances of the world where these characters live. Therefore, this week’s big episode, “Woe’s Hollow,” is noteworthy for its attitude alone, such as Lumon Macrodata Refinement Team of Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Irving (John Turturro) and Dylan (Zach Cherry) Finally get the chance to spend some time outside the office. Like out into the desert. Where there are trees and snow, and you know, Sky, which is something most of them have never seen. It’s a big thing for them! (But no Goats.)

A big deal is also several revelations in the episode, including the climatic moment when we learn that Outie Helena has actually posed as Innie Helly all season, presumably spying on the rest of the group. And then there’s Irving Innie who is … Wiped out by existence apparently?

I talked to the role crew as well as the Creator/ShowRunner Dan Erickson about section 4, so read on for highlights from our chat, or watch the full video at the top of this page.

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Helena The Imposter

While we have known that Outie Helena Eagan is a pretty terrible person (or at least seems to be) comes the revelation she has posed as Innie Helly R. Warning signs Was there for the most eagle eye of fans. Britt Lower explains that while she knew since section 1 of the second season that she was actually playing Helena and not Helly, it was still a difficult situation to play as an actor, as the two halves of the cut character are usually depicted as being so different from each other.

“It was a delicate balance that we all tried to navigate,” says the actress. “So it was a relief to get back to full Helly R. in episode (5) because it had been many months of doing something that was an eerie valley, I assume, version. But yes, they just sound a little different in my head, like different music. Almost like the same musician, but different albums. “

They just sound a little different in my head, like different music. Almost like the same musician, but different albums. -Britt lower

Lower’s Costars also had to navigate by knowing that this character would eventually be revealed to be Helena, but to play it as if their inn thought it was Helly.

“I played it as if it were just Helly and kind of reacting to Helly and how she behaves,” explains Adam Scott. “I think if we responded, we were very careful not to tip it in any way. I mean, it was really fun to see Britt playing Helly through Helena through these episodes and seeing what she did because it was extraordinary. But in the scenes it was just to do what I couldn’t tip it in any way … was the most important thing. “

“The Britt part of me felt very bad to fool my friends,” laughs lower, and Zach Cherry points out that they would sometimes forget that they played opposite Helena rather than Helly. “There would be this like,” oh, why did she respond that way to it? ”He says. “But it was a little fascinating to experience, frankly to see (her) do it.”

Woe’s Hollow: To take the inns on a field trip

Dan Erickson has wanted to take the innies out of the office pretty much since the start of the show and he finally got his chance with “Woe’s Hollow.”

“It’s one of the things you can only do on this show,” he says. “Often on TV, you throw in the audience, and they don’t know the context of anything, they don’t know what happened, but on this show the characters can be as disoriented and confused as the audience and have to find out How they got there with the viewer. And then I had always had this idea of ​​a character, happened? ” ‘

Showrunner also laughs that while the role crew and crew are shooting in freezing temperatures for four weeks, he was in Sunny Los Angeles. “I was literally out on my deck in the sun,” he tells me, while the actors growl in his general direction. “Just watch (video) feed and be like, ‘they look cold. They look really cold. I hope they are ok ‘”

“It was cold,” Scott confirms.

Just getting to the place of the episode was a challenge that involved taking a van to a parking lot followed by a walk in a four -wheeler up the mountain. Then came the Guide -Rubs and the trip up the mountain. “

“There weren’t even roads that went up there,” Scott remembers. “And we would get up, and there is this base camp at the top of this mountain and we were there for 12 (hours) until the sun went down and shooting. And it was freezing! … it was really fun, but really challenging and hard, but in a good, fun way. “

Lower says it was a month when the actors “had a truly different relationship with light.” Since most of the series is used under fluorescent light – and light that can be controlled at any time – it was often a “running against the sun.”

“We also had to get out of the office provider and wear really incredible costumes designed by Sarah Edwards,” laughs the actress. “And for me personally, it was nice not to be in tights and heels for once.”